Panning to be legalised in former GULAG region in bid to crackdown on black market.
Even the giant nugget's 6,66 kg weight seemed to match the day.
This witness to the Siberian gold rush might be the only one left in the world.
Dating back 11,000 years - with a coded message left by ancient man from the Mesolithic Age - the Shigir Idol is almost three times as old as the Egyptian pyramids.