The "Peace Keeper Nugget"
Origin: Mandiana Region of Eastern Guinea, West Africa
Sample size: 6 inch, 44.5 ounce (1382.5 grams) solid Gold nugget
An amazing 6 inch, 44.5 ounce (1382.5 grams) solid Gold nugget. This is the
first nugget to have ever legally been exported from the country of Guinea.
Called "The Peace Keeper Nugget" since it kept the local miners from killing
each other. The two families mining in two adjacent 40 foot shafts found
another large nugget in between the two shafts. Both families claimed
ownership and the nugget subsequently cut the nugget in half by a hack saw!
Though the two families continued their mining efforts, hostility still broke
out as neither family was allowed to mine the area between the two shafts.
Later that day, the "Peace Keeper Nugget" surfaced and it was decided that one
family could have the two halves of the sawed nugget, while the "Peace Keeper"
was given to the other family. John Hayes, worked for the African company who
had the mining rights to this land. He later purchased the "Peace Keeper"
nugget and was the first person to legally export gold out of Guinea.
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