Close-up of a huge 10kg gold block found in Alaska

Miners in Alaska found large blocks of gold in the wild weighing up to 10kg.

One of the largest gold nuggets ever found is for sale in Dallas for $1 million, 23 years after it was first discovered in Alsaska.

This gold block was found in the Alaskan mining area, USA, in 1998.

Miner Barry Clay discovered a 10kg block of gold in an Alaskan mining area, USA, in 1998. He found valuable ruins from the 1896 "Klondike Gold Rush" while driving a bulldozer pushing dirt along the shore. Swift Creek Beach.

Barry Clay realizes he's hit the jackpot, burying the chunk of gold under an Alaskan tree before figuring out what to do with it.

In the end, he decided to send the gold bar to experts for review. Experts say it is the second largest gold bar ever found in the Western Hemisphere and the largest ever found in Alaska.

The man who bought the bullion from Clay more than 20 years ago is now bringing it to auction in Dallas along with a host of other precious works.

A spokesman for Heritage Auctions said: "The Alaska Centennial is the largest gold nugget ever found in the state of Alaska. It was discovered in 1998 near the town of Ruby, Alaska. Barry Clay excavated the find. This important event and immediately made history. Clay later sold the ingot to a private collector and it is still in his possession."

The Alaska Centennial is recorded as the largest block of gold found in Alaska, only smaller than the "Boot of Cortez" jade block in Mexico weighing more than 11kg.

In this auction, in addition to the Alaska Centennial gold block, there are also two indigenous gold blocks discovered in the Venezuelan jungle in the 1980s. Experts predict that they will collect $ 300,000 and $ 600,000 respectively.