Man convinced rock he found is gold given jaw-dropping news when it's sawed open

Man convinced rock he found is gold given jaw-dropping news when it's sawed open

David Hole thought he had struck gold with his metal detector but what he really discovered was far rarer - but it would take years to unravel the mystery.

He Tried Everything to Crack Open a ‘Gold Nugget’—Then He Learned It Was Worth Billions!

In 2015, a resident of Maryborough, Victoria, named David Hole, thought he had found a gold nugget in the Maryborough Regional Park. He spent years trying to crack it open, convinced it contained gold, until he finally discovered that it was far more valuable than he had ever imagined. The rock wasn’t gold. It was a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, and the discovery was later published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. This met…