🧐 Quiz of the day: In which department was the largest gold nugget found in France? 🏅✨
France is full of gold-bearing rivers and fascinating places to search for precious metals. But do you know in which department the largest gold nugget ever discovered in France was found?
A) The Gard
B) Ardèche
C) The Rhone
D) The Lot
🎉 Answer to the Quiz🎉
The answer is... Ardèche, in the hamlet of Avols (commune of Gravières)! 🏅✨
On July 6, 1889, the newspaper La Nature reported an extraordinary discovery. The largest gold nugget ever found in France was unearthed by a shepherd, Clément Trouillas, who had initially used it as a projectile without knowing it was a nugget! As one of his animals strayed from the herd, he threw a particularly heavy stone at it. A few days later, his brother-in-law Adrien Noël found the shiny stone on the ground and realized it was a magnificent gold nugget.
The nugget measures 94 mm long by 50 mm wide, with a thickness of only 8 mm, and weighs 543 grams! Today, this treasure is in the Mineralogical Museum of Harvard University in the United States and remains the largest gold nugget ever found in France.
