This, the largest gold nugget still in existence, found by the wife of a prospector wedged between boulders while walking Turnagain Creek in Northern BC. The nugget weighed 52 Troy Ounces, and was bought by the Royal BC Museum for the price of $1500. The creek was later renamed the Alice Shea Creek in her honour. 

Read a little more here: https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/bcs-gold-rush/turnagain-nugget-largest-existing-gold-nugget-from-bc2-1200x1033/

Note the late date of the find; almost 50 years after any of the major gold rushes in BC.

There's still a lot left to be found...

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