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ebongkah gold weighing 10.7 kilograms (kg) finally got a decent place and became part of the display in the Australian Museum. In the past, the gold chunk is estimated at Rp 37 billion it had abandoned or used as a tool of cricket game.
Quoted by the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC), the chunk of gold was discovered in 1887 at the Maitland Bar in Meroo Creek and is thought to be one of the purest golden boulders ever dug.
The value is estimated at up to Rp 37 billion, but New South Wales Minister Mike Baird said that the precious metal had become an abandoned object.
erapa last year the state government was looking for a place to store the lump after the Treasury was trusted to guard it. "Then somebody decided to keep it in the box," Baird said.
"The problem is, they forgot to tell people about the contents of the box, so the box was once used for cricket games in the office hall."
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the employees continued to use the box as part of a casual cricket game in the office without knowing its contents until one day they were curious and opened it up by finding the chunk of gold.
The Minister explained that the chunk was the size of a loaf of bread, with a gold content of about 9 kilograms.
The chunk was purchased by the NSW Department of Mines in 1887, coinciding with the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. Since then, the object has been treated by the local state government as a memory of gold rush in the 19th century in Australia.
The gold boulder will be on display for 4 days at the Australian Museum Long Gallery, together with the first issue of banknotes, lent by Bank Westpac.
Westpac, the Government of South Wales News, and the Australian Museum have also announced a restoration program worth Rp 90 billion for Long Gallery.
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