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Ballarat was a great region for "nuggets." No such nuggets were found in California as Ballarat produced.

In fact, the Ballarat region has yielded the largest ones known to history.

Two of them weighed about 180 pounds each, and together were worth $90,000.

They were offered to any poor person who would shoulder them and carry them away.

Gold was so plentiful that it made people liberal like that.
Ballarat was a swarming city of tents in the early days.