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Apprentice fitter and turner Toby Whyte holds up the 7.8kg gold bar and murmurs “there’s a lot of money in my hands.”
																								
												
												
											Apprentice fitter and turner Toby Whyte holds up the 7.8kg gold bar and murmurs theres a lot of money in my hands.
At 73 per cent purity the bar is worth $542,000 to be exact, easily enough to buy the 17-year-old a new house in his home town of West Wyalong in the Riverina.
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Apprentice fitter at Evolution Mining gold mine at Lake Cowal, near West Wyalong, NSW holds gold nugget.
But Mr Whyte believes he has struck gold already — landing an apprenticeship straight from school in Ev… 
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