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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

September 21, 1983

Brasilia

A Christmas bauble from Neiman-Marcus? A giant gold nugget worth a million dollars was dug up by a prospector at a remote Amazon mine, a Mines and Energy Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. The 137 -pound, 80-percent-pure nugget looks like a gold-plated meteorite.