Staggering pay day for Gold Rush star Tyler Mahoney after selling 'once in a lifetime' find Prospector found gold nuggets The hopper crystal is in almost perfect condition READ MORE: Young Aussie hits $20k jackpot after incredible find on a bushwalking track - so would you be able to spot it? By Padraig Collins For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:24 BST, 16 September 2024 | Updated: 12:29 BST, 16 September 2024 e-mail 10 shares View comments An Australian television star and gold hunter has shown off one of the world's rarest gold nuggets before pocketing thousands. Tyler Mahoney, who presents the Gold Rush show on the Discovery Channel, bought the 'once in a lifetime find' from a prospector who unearthed the nugget in Clermont in Queensland 's central highlands. The 22g Inca nugget, as it is known, is a hopper crystal - a crystal in a pyramid shape - in almost perfect condition that later sold for a phenomenal $15,000.
The West Australian was left speechless by the nugget's beauty, which she said was about 92 per cent pure. 'I'm holding one of the world's rarest gold nuggets. I will never ever hold anything like this again, and I'm a gold digger.
I do this for a living,' Mahoney told her 22K TikTok followers. 'When I saw a photo of this, my jaw dropped to the floor. 'This is insane, It is one of the rarest types of gold nuggets in the world.
It's called the Inca nugget.' 'It was found in Queensland by a local prospector, and it's an almost perfect hopper crystal.' Getting.