U Walesu pronađen najveći grumen zlata u povijesti Velike Britanije

PIC BY GEOFF ROBINSON PHOTOGRAPHY 07976 880732. Picture shows Vincent Thurkettle with Britain's biggest ever gold nugget which he found off the coast of Wales. A gold prospector has found Britain's biggest ever GOLD NUGGET, worth an estimated £50,000 and the size of a small chicken's EGG, just off a beach in Wales. Vincent Thurkettle, 60, was stunned to see the incredible 97.12g (3oz) nugget of gold gleaming in a crevice on the sea bed off the coast of Anglesey. It is almost twice as heavy as the UK's second biggest nugget, which was found in Cornwall more than 200 years ago in 1808 and weighed 59g. The nugget is believed to be part of a £120 million haul of gold which went down with the Royal Charter when it was shipwrecked during a hurricane in 1859. Treasure hunters have spent 150 years trying to find traces of the lost gold and Vincent spent seven summers scouring the shore before he was rewarded for his efforts. He spent around six weeks each summer looking for gold dust with a team of his family and friends and uncovered the nugget when he was shallow diving around five metres from the shore. SEE COPY CATCHLINE Britain's biggest ever GOLD nugget found

Vincent Thurkettle, tragač za zlatom rodom iz britanske grofovije Norfolk je prilikom ronjrnja kod sjeverozapadne obale Walesa pronašao zlatni grumen mase 97,12 grama. Time je oborio rekord koji je stajao više od dva stoljeća – drugi najveći grumen pronađen je 1808. kod Cornwalla, a imao je masu 59 grama. Thurkettle je grumen zapravo pronašao još 2012., ali je to držao tajnim jer je želio prvo dobro istražiti okolno područje. Grumen je pronađen blizu olupine Royal Chartera, jedrenjaka s pomoćnim parnim pogonom koji je plovio na relaciji Engleska (Liverpool) – Australija, prevozeći putnike i zlato. Brod je potonuo prilikom strašne oluje 1859., prilikom čega je poginulo više od 400 ljudi, dok se samo 39 uspjelo spasiti. Među preživjelima bili su samo odrasli muškarci. Sukladno engleskom pravu, grumen je sada u vlasništvu britanske krune. Bit će izložen u nekom od lokalnih muzeja a Thurkettleu će biti isplaćena novčana nagrada. Procjenjuje se da grumen ima tržišnu vrijednost oko 50,000 funti.

Piše: Boris Blažina

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