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"World's biggest" amber nugget worth over $1 million used as doorstop for decades

<p>An elderly woman in Romania has unknowingly used one of the largest known amber nuggets in the world - worth over €1 million ($1.6 million) - as her doorstop for decades. </p> <p>The woman found the stone in the bed of a stream in Colti, a village in the southeast Romania, and used it as her doorstop for years without realising its value. </p> <p>Members of her family also reported that thieves had once broken into her home, but only stole a few pieces of gold jewelry, missing the seemingly insignificant rock. </p> <p>“In their frantic search for valuables, they overlooked the real treasure that was there before their eyes,” they said.</p> <p>It wasn't until after the woman died in 1991 that a relative who inherited her home suspected the doorstop might be more than meets the eye - and he was right. </p> <p>When he sold the amber to the Romanian state, experts at the Museum of History in Krakow, Poland appraised the rock and found that the amber is likely between around 38 and 70 million years old.</p> <p>“Its discovery represents a great significance both at a scientific level and at a museum level,” Daniel Costache, director of the Provincial Museum of Buzau, told  local news outlet <em>El Pais</em>.</p> <p>The expert also claimed that the amber is one of the largest pieces in the world and the largest of its kind weighing a hefty 3.5-kilograms.</p> <p>It has now been classified as a national treasure of Romania, and can be found in the Provincial Museum of Buzau, where it has been since 2022. </p> <p>Romania is one of the countries with significant deposits of amber, with Buzau County being one of the areas where you can find these beautiful stones in abundance. </p> <p>The protected area also contains the old Stramba amber mine, which was very productive during the first half of the 21st century, before it was shut down by the communist regime as it was considered unprofitable. </p> <p><em>Image: Buzău County Museum</em></p> <p> </p>

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“Once-in-a-lifetime find”: Man discovers gold nugget worth six figures

<p>A man from Victoria has struck gold armed with his budget metal detector.</p> <p>The man, who wishes to not be named, discovered a 4.6kg rock in Victoria’s “Golden Triangle” which stretches between Ballarat, Bendigo and up to St Arnaud.</p> <p>Unsure of whether it was worth anything, he brought the rock to Lucky Strike Gold in Geelong for evaluation where Gold trader Darren Kamp discovered it contained a staggering 2.6kg of gold worth $240k.</p> <p>“He said, ‘Oh, do you think there’s $10,000 worth in it?’, and as soon as it hit my hand I looked at him and said: ‘Try a $100,000’,” Kamp told <em>9News</em>.</p> <p>"And he said, 'Oh wow, the wife's going to be happy with that," said Kamp.</p> <p>Funnily enough, the man had only brought in half of the rock and left the other half “at home”.</p> <p>“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime find,” said Kamp.</p> <p>Small nuggets of gold are worth up to $1000, but the value of gold has soared due to inflation.</p> <p>“You’ll hear the term, ‘if it’s got your name on it, you’ll find it’,” Kamp said.</p> <p>“You just need some luck and persistence. It’s like a Tattslotto ticket, you’re never going to win it unless you’ve got a ticket,” he added.</p> <p>The gold nuggets from this region were famous for their quantity, size and purity, and were mostly found in streams or river beds.</p> <p><em>Image: Nine News</em></p>

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"So THAT'S how they're made?!" A home cook's perfect recreation of McDonald's chicken nuggets goes viral

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A talented home cook has gone viral on TikTok for his almost perfect recreation of McDonald's chicken nuggets, with his video racking up over 4.6 million views and counting. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Online sensation and cookbook author Joshua Weissman has accumulated a following of 5.7 million TikTok users with his recreations of fast food favourites, as he takes on the McDonald's staple in his latest video which he also shared to Instagram.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Weissman's viral video, he claims it was "not my first nugget rodeo", as he creates the mixture from scratch before adding a selection of flavour enhancers that he believes are preferred by the international fast food brand. </span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKuvNsj_ey/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKuvNsj_ey/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Joshua Weissman (@joshuaweissman)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Among the ingredients he uses are chicken skin, celery powder, white pepper, sugar, salt and even the popularly divisive MSG, to which he states "McDonald's does it. We're doing it."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After individually shaping and frying each piece, Weissman puts his creations up against the original nuggets in a blind taste test, where his delicacy came out on top.</span></p> <p><span>The recipe has left many TikTokers surprised at the quality, and astonished at the level of effort required in his recreation.</span></p> <p><span><img style="width: 500px; height: 333.3333333333333px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842815/shutterstock_1839497737.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/30eb8f8b4c124ee080ceb875ef1514e4" /></span></p> <p><em>Image credit: Shutterstock</em></p> <p><span><span>One critic even named the cook "The new Gordon Ramsey," while another cheekily tagged the official McDonald's account and brutally informed them, "he's better".</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Joshua Weissman made a name for himself with his YouTube cooking tutorials, that boasted his talent in the kitchen along with his not-so-serious attitude. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>He has since burst onto the TikTok scene with his signature witty commentary, making him a culinary staple in the online </span></span>community.</p>

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Aussie blokes find two gold nuggets worth $350k

<p>Two gold nuggets worth close to A$350,000 have been found by a pair of diggers in southern Australia.</p> <p>Brent Shannon and Ethan West discovered the stones near gold mining town Tarnagulla in Victoria state.</p> <p>Their lucky find was aired on TV show Aussie Gold Hunters.</p> <p>With the help of a metal detector, the men dug holes in the ground to find the gold. </p> <p>"These are definitely one of the most significant finds," Ethan West said, according to CNN. "To have two large chunks in one day is quite amazing."</p> <p>The found the nuggets, which have a combined weight of 3.5kg in a short amount of time thanks to Mr West’s father.</p> <p>Aussie Gold Hunters follows a team of gold prospectors who dig in goldfields in remote parts of Australia. </p> <p>"I reckoned we were in for a chance," Mr Shannon told Australian TV show Sunrise. "It was in a bit of virgin ground, which means it's untouched and hasn't been mined."</p> <p>Gold mining in Australia began in the 1850s, and remains a significant industry in the country.</p>

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Huge gold nugget found in mystery Aussie location

<p>A gold prospector has unearthed a gold nugget worth over $4,000 less than a metre underground.</p> <p>The prospector, identified as Bill M, took to the Facebook group Detecting Downunder to share a glimpse of the 50.8g piece.</p> <p>The nugget was found on a private property in the Victorian gold rush city Ballarat last week, the prospector said.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7836626/gold2.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/3307221641fc4ae8adb4db8e0869f7db" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>Source: Facebook / <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.facebook.com/DetectingDownunder/posts/1152731228432238?__cft__[0]=AZX2c9RoTLh-2nI_V8X3RRhcsJZHGoburAdwAAbNk7JnoffHBW4UjQVqIdzFWZTvbKLWJDSkYqVh4c46cC_rmU9NmjXgPOCXUcAejayKHlbQbVM32dX4JaxYNNT0J89XS-CxahnsDJKqe6B4hd44VIhkknXIa-OiyFoz0Fn9ls_B9Q&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R" target="_blank">Detecting Downunder</a></em></p> <p>“This is straight from a main gold reef,” a related post read.</p> <p>“It was found about 2 feet (60 centimetres) down.”</p> <p>Based on the current gold price of about $81.5 per gram, the nugget is estimated to be worth around $4,140.</p> <p>The finding came a year after a Victorian retiree found <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-27/gold-nugget-found-in-ballarat-by-retiree/11353044">a two-kilogram gold nugget worth about $130,000</a> on the outskirts of Ballarat. In the same year, a family also spotted <a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/victoria-news-gold-nugget-found-bendigo/bf34fb4a-0124-4694-a1aa-aebe095d5c8d">a 634g nugget worth more than $35,000</a> while walking their dog on Mother’s Day in Bendigo.</p> <p>It is believed more than 2.26 million tonnes of gold remains underground in regional Victoria, the <em><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-27/gold-nugget-found-in-ballarat-by-retiree/11353044">ABC</a> </em>reported.</p>

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Is this Coles' strangest launch yet? Supermarket releases bizarre new item

<p>If you don’t remember, last year the internet went wild for a <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.oversixty.com.au/lifestyle/food-wine/internet-wild-for-three-dollar-coles-product" target="_blank">$3 Coles product that tasted “exactly the same”</a> as the wildly popular McDonald’s Big Mac burger sauce.</p> <p>This time, Coles has stocked their shelves with two new additions to the monumentally successful 2017 Special Burger Sauce – exclusive condiments made to accompany nuggets.</p> <p>Coles has announced two Special Nugget Sauces, developed by chefs who have tasted “thousands of sauces around the world.”</p> <p>The new release, which measures at 375 ml per bottle will cost you $2.75 each and might just be the sauce you didn’t realise you needed to eat with your McDonald's nuggets.</p> <p>One “nugg” sauce is the spicy ketchup nugget sauce which has proven to be a popular dipping sauce in Germany – except theirs is called Currygewürzketchup.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7828189/coles-sauce-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/70f3d4349dcd4038891874b7297c0ccf" /></p> <p>One shopper who got his hands on the sauce last week said it was “better than Mickey D’s just my personal opinion,” as reported by <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/coles-launches-bizarre-sauce-for-aussie-junk-food-staple/news-story/6a9049c1756c088b37e2a96e12058863" target="_blank"><em>news.com.au</em>.</a></p> <p>Sweet Mustard nugget sauce is the second condiment customers will have the opportunity to pick up. The Carolina BBQ inspired sauce is filled with “sweet, tangy, mustardy goodness.”<br /><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7828190/coles-sauce.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/03d6ba8d7807456da3f79390095758eb" /></p> <p>A spokesperson said Australians have a real love for chicken nuggets – meaning this launch might just be the best thing for customers.</p> <p>“That’s why our chefs have been tasting thousands of sauces from around the world to develop two sauces that we know people will love,” the spokeswoman told <em><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/eat/coles-launches-bizarre-sauce-for-aussie-junk-food-staple/news-story/6a9049c1756c088b37e2a96e12058863" target="_blank">news.com.au</a>.</em></p>

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Victorian man finds 145-ounce gold nugget

<p>A Victorian prospector has hit the jackpot after a decade long search, unearthing a 145-ounce gold nugget from the ground.</p> <p>At first glance the lump looked like scrap, but the man sensed he was at the tip of an “old horseshoe”.</p> <p>He was right – he soon uncovered 30 centimetres of pure gold, which has valued at more than $250,000.</p> <p>"I really couldn't believe my eyes," said the prospector, who wishes to remain anonymous.</p> <p><img width="444" height="251" src="http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/0/g/f/3/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gr0g4h.png/1472076494136.jpg" alt="The freshly unearthed gold nugget." style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"/></p> <p>"It's like catching a big fish and not knowing what to do with it. Where do we put it? I washed it in water, covered it in aluminium foil and kept it in my oven on the first night."</p> <p>The hobbyist found the nugget while scouring Victoria's Golden Triangle on Friday using a $10,000 metal detector.</p> <p>His big find came just one day after he found a nine-ounce nugget. Luckily, the man came back for his much bigger and prosperous find.</p> <p>"I was in total disbelief as I didn't think nuggets of this size were still around," he said.</p> <p>While it may have been a lucky discovery, the prospector has been hunting for gold on his weekends for over 10 years.</p> <p>Auctions plans are in the works for the gold, with the man planning to use his new fortune to buy a caravan and explore Australia. Who knows there may be more gold to discover?</p> <p>What would you do if you struck gold? Share with us in the comments below.</p> <p><strong>Related links: </strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://oversixty.com.au/finance/money-banking/2016/07/20-small-ways-to-reduce-your-monthly-spend/"><em>20 small ways to reduce your monthly spend</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://oversixty.com.au/finance/money-banking/2016/07/10-reasons-to-think-twice-before-lending-money/"><em>10 reasons to think twice before lending money</em></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://oversixty.com.au/finance/money-banking/2016/07/5-things-to-be-mindful-of-when-giving-grandkids-money/"><em>5 things to be mindful of when giving grandkids money</em></a></strong></span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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Parmesan-crusted baked chicken nuggets

<p>If you love the bite-sized tastiness of chicken nuggets, but would prefer them to come without the extra dose of oil, then you might love these parmesan-crusted, oven-baked alternatives. This recipe is also great to make if you’re having the grandkids over for dinner.</p><p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ingredients:</span></strong></p><ul><li>500g chicken breasts</li><li>1 ¼ cup garlic bread crumbs</li><li>⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese</li><li>1 tablespoon vegetable oil</li><li>⅓ cup flour</li><li>¼ teaspoon salt</li><li>2 large eggs, lightly beaten</li></ul>

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