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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 227, 4 September 1884, Page 3

Remarkable Facts about Gold.—One yard of the “ precious metal” is worth, in round numbers, about £2,000,000. It is supposed that if all the gold contained in the world were melted down, it could be placed in a high room twenty-four feet square, and sixteen feet high. The contributions of the people in the time of King David for the Sanctuary of the Temple must have amounted to more than £6.800.000. The gold used by King Solomon for overlaying the Holy Place, which was only a room of about thirty feet square, is supposed to have am unted to no less than £38,000,000 sterling. The largest nugget of gold yet known was one found by two poor Cornish miners named Richard oats and John Deacon, who were digging on the Dunollygold district, Australia, The nugget weighed two hundred and ten pounds, and was worth nine thousand pounds. The celebrated Ballarat nugget weighed one hundred and thirty-seven pounds, and was worth about eight thousand pounds. It was found in the year 1858, and was known as “The Welcome Stranger.” It yielded two hundred ounces of pure gold. A piece of quartz was found in 1851 in California, from which al out sixty pounds of pure gold was obtained.