So did the Welcome Stranger likely 'bounce' from a long gone mountain to where it was found or, did it 'grow' in the ground as is sometimes alleged? Apologies if this has been canvassed before.
If a large nugget embedded in quartz was jettisoned from the side of a mountain wouldn't its momentum (and gravity) keep it going just like a bomb skidding along the water did in the Dam Busters?
Standing atop a gully in a heavily investigated (for gold) Victorian bush landscape, behind is a dam dug in the late 1800s/early 1900s for surfacing the gully. I understand the old-timers used high pressure water jets to remove the top soil to reveal any surface gold. Question: did they try to...