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The largest gold nugget ever found in Colorado was discovered in Breckenridge on July 3, 1887 by a man named Tom Groves. The single nugget weighed 151 oz and was about the size of an adult human head. It was dubbed "Tom's Baby" because Mr. Groves paraded it around town like a new born child. Whatever happened to the nugget is still one of the great mysteries surrounding Breckenridge. Find out the rest of this amazing Rocky Mountain Gold Prospecting story: http://www.rockymountaintravel.net/gold/index.cfm?var_file=toms-baby.htm Breckenridge is just over the hill from where we will be based in South Park. Professional Geologists agree that "between 5% and 10% of the gold in the Colorado mineral belt has been discovered and only half of those claims have been worked." |
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