Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Ty Paulsen swung a metal detector over the Stringer district south of Randsburg and pulled out 156 troy ounces of solid gold in one piece, the largest known surviving California nugget. It sits today in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and detectors still comb that desert because of it.
TRUE FIND: Stringer district near Randsburg (Kern County). Source: Mojave Nugget, found 1977, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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