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This news was translated from a local Newspaper - Publication date 8/12/2010:

"A guy from Eastern Sudan region has found gold nuggets weighted about 60 Kilograms . He brought these nuggets (in it's natural form) to gold refiners in the capital Khartoum and sold them for a  4.800.000 SDG (Sudanese Genes) equals to $1.600.000 USD by that time exchange rates. Bakhiet Mohammed (one of the Rashaeda tribesmen) arrived at the Gold Market in the capital Monday's evening carrying these rock-like gold nuggets in a plastic bag in the back of his truck.
The assayers tested it and found it contains high grade gold (nearly 24 karat). He sold the gold immediately and went off the market happily with his fortune. The biggest nugget found in the gold fields by Artisanal Miners weighed around (21 Kilos)."
 
This news is 5 years old.

Unfortunately NO single pic of these nuggets existed as the local refiners crushed/smashed/melted the aforementioned nuggets and made the gold into Bars apparently I may suspect it is exported to Dubai which is one of the largest gold markets in the world.
 
Of course at that time they didn't know that these nuggets in their natural forms could be worth more money than the gold weight contained in them. An estimation by someone who frequently visits Dubai and know about gold trading accounts  that the actual value of the gold Bakheit's has sold is around $2.374.000  Bakhiet-Mohammed_zps8ovvnkqq.jpg?width=146of the gold prices at that time  (12-09-2010 )

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