I’m a real-life gold digger — I found $125K with just a few hand tools and a pig
She has no shame in being a full-time gold digger.
An Australian woman discovered gold nuggets worth $127,000 underneath her childhood play area.
Tyler Mahoney, 27, a reality star on Discovery Channel’s “Gold Rush” was gold-digging with her brother Reece and her father Ted when she came across her biggest hit yet.
“We were at a place in the outback, where me and my brother actually grew up — we’d spent a lot of time there when we were younger and I hadn’t been back in about 15 years,” she told Caters News Agency.
Mahoney revealed the only reason her family revisited the nostalgic spot was because “my dad had been passing through the area and needed to make a phone call while he searched for service, he found a couple of nuggets, so he wanted to bring us here.”
They returned to the hill and dug up a lot of gold, but the Calgary, Australia, residents knew they couldn’t stop until they reached the source of the jackpot.
Although Mahoney admits “it was really rough,” her family stuck to their strategy of following nuggets and tracking where it came from.
They used hand tools, a guide and a pig to chip away at the ground, hoping to spot gold nuggets.
After endlessly digging, “gold nuggets just started coming out and it was gold still in the iron stone.”
Mahoney reveals they found the large vein of black iron stone full of gold speckles.
“It looked like gold veins,” she gushes. “It was one of the richest loads my dad’s ever seen and then it just kept coming and coming and we just followed it.”
The family collected and processed their findings to see how much they could cash in.
“We got about $127,000 worth of gold from this one dig and then we melted it into some little bars,” Mahoney said.
The family of gold diggers just got richer and will continue digging their way to more riches.
