Discovered in Australia and weighing a massive 61lb, it's on display under glass near the North Tower elevators. If you want to get up close to the fish without getting wet (or being a hotel guest), take a behind-the-scenes tour ($50) or stop for a drink at Chart House, a seafood restaurant where you can perch at the bar encircling a 75,000-gallon tropical aquarium.Īnother of the Nugget's famous attractions is the Hand of Faith, the world's largest single gold nugget still in existence (so named due to its mitten-esque shape).
Swimmers can press their faces against the glass to come face-to-face with six species of sharks, rays and tropical fish. One of the Golden Nugget's claims to fame is the Tank, an outdoor pool featuring a three-story waterslide through a 200,000-gallon shark tank. The duo catapulted the Nugget into the national limelight on the Fox reality TV series Casino, but then sold it off to Landry's Inc. Wunderkind entrepreneurs Tim Poster and Thomas Breitling bought this vintage Vegas casino hotel, which was once owned by none other than casino impresario Steve Wynn, in 2003. The nonsmoking poker room hosts daily tournaments. With eateries and a swimming pool famous for its shark tank, the Golden Nugget draws a moneyed crowd with a 38,000-sq-ft casino populated by table games and slot machines with the same odds as at Strip megaresorts. See the things others never see.Check out the polished brass and white leather seats in the casino: day or night, the Golden Nugget is downtown's poshest address (not that there's a dress code or anything). Mobsters -singers - gamblers and shills all molded Las Vegas into what she is today. While you take your fill of pictures and selfies of 60 pounds of solid gold, I tell the fascinating story of how Kevin Hillier originally found the treasure. The Hand of Faith is still on display at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas today, and visitors can see it for themselves in the casino's Gold Tower lobby.ĭuring my Fremont Street Downtown Walking tours we also stop by the Hand of Faith Golden Nugget. In 2007, the Golden Nugget Casino was sold to Landry's, Inc., a hospitality and entertainment company owned by businessman Tilman Fertitta. The casino's owner, Steve Wynn, put the nugget on display in the lobby of the Golden Nugget for several years, where it became a popular tourist attraction.
The nugget weighs 27.21 kilograms (60 pounds) and is the largest gold nugget ever found with a metal detector.Īfter its discovery, the Hand of Faith was sold several times before being purchased by the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1981 for over a million dollars. The Hand of Faith is a famous gold nugget discovered in 1980 by Kevin Hillier with a metal detector near Kingower, a small town in Victoria, Australia.
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