Gold rush for amateur gold-digger in Australia

An unnamed Australian man has found an astonishingly large gold nugget - weighing 5.5kg. He confounded the traditional laws of prospecting by unearthing the massive nugget with a hand-held metal detector near the town of Ballarat in the state of Victoria.

So what is it worth, and is this the most unusual thing detector fans have uncovered?
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