A Historic Find

Fraser Kendall, the director of Minelab’s marketing and sales division,  described it as an incredible find. “We’re thrilled that a Minelab customer has made such an amazing and important discovery,” he said. “[He] was prospecting in an area that others had clearly worked over and this just goes to show that there’s plenty of gold still coming out of Victoria.”

A Viral Story

Anything remotely important or say sensationalizing ends up being on the internet and this story was no exception. It was not an everyday story and the news of this man finding an enormously big colossal gold nugget went viral over the internet in no time. Many online media platforms and other sites published this story and the audiences were quite interested in knowing the intricate detail of this gold-hunting expedition.

In The News

How could the story of a man finding gold worth $250,000 not make it to the news? While the story was already all over the internet, more people were aware of this incredible discovery via local news channels that featured this story. Moreover, Minelab couldn’t just throw this opportunity away and they were doing all in their power to sell this story that could very well help them in business.

Thanks To Minelab

The anonymous man thanked Minelab in an interview and stated “I would still be searching without getting my hands at anything valuable if I hadn’t changed my old good for nothing detector and replaced it with Minelab’s GPZ 7000. The company has entitled its device as the “next level of gold detection” on their official website. The GPZ is apparently “equipped with Minelab’s exclusive, groundbreaking, Zero Voltage Transmission (ZVT) technology and state-of-the-art features”. In a nutshell, it’s the best in class.

Rise In Sales

Minelab came out to be the bigger winner amid everything that happened. The monthly sales rose up to $190,000 when it turned out that there were more people other than this anonymous man who had used the Minelab metal detector in their successful hunt for gold. Moreover, Minelab claimed to have adopted more advanced technology in their new metal detector and it has discovered a $250,000 worth of gold, we are more than convinced.

A Lucrative Hobby

Gold prospecting is apparently more lucrative than we might think. Many people have made a career out of it and the rest have at least discovered something valuable. A man named Mick Brown from Australia discovered a 2.7 kg nugget which further sold for a massive $175,000. It was last year when he stumbled upon a gold nugget with the help of his Minelab metal detector and named his discovery “Fair Dinkum.” By the looks of it, we should immediately get off our computer screens and instead invest in a metal detector.