An Australian couple was searching for gold using a metal detector in the Kalgoorlie Goldfields in 1979 when they uncovered the largest gold nugget found in the region in the previous 50 years.

HELENA, Mon., Jan. 25.—A forty-two- pound gold nugget worth upward of $10,000 is reported to have been found in California Gulch, one of the tributaries of the famous Alder Gulch, in Madison County.