A Victorian man is $141, 000 richer thanks to his wife.
Kerang resident Mick Brown had just given up smoking and was in such a bad mood his wife told him to get out of the house to give her some space.
A seasoned prospector, Brown decided to let off some steam by searching a patch of land near Wedderburn.
The 42-year-old did not expect to find anything having scoured the area many times before without success.
But it was his lucky day.
Just 15 centimetres below the surface Brown struck gold, unearthing a 2.7
“I thought, ‘bugger me, it is, it’s bloody gold,” Brown told Fairfax.
“I just dug it up, 87 ounces of the good stuff.”
He has affectionately nicknamed his find “fair dinkum”.
Asked what he would do with the money, Brown said he planned to pay off his debts and buy his children a spa.
