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Powerball winners tell how a spectacular rainbow formed over their mining site before 19 workers won a $53 million draw
- WA miners who won mega Powerball say they saw a rainbow on their mining site
- The group of 19 gold prospectors from Kalgoorlie-Boulder won the Powerball record
- Each miner put in $100 and came out $2.6 million richer from the $53 million profit
- At 5.30pm on the night of the draw, they saw a rainbow land in their mining pit
- They were one of three first-division wins with a record $160 million
A group of 19 mining fellows who took home $53.3 million in the nation’s biggest Powerball jackpot say a rainbow formed over their mining site just before their life-changing win.
The Western Australian miners in Kalgoorlie-Boulder spent $100 each on the $160 million Powerball draw in a “spur of the moment” decision to syndicate together for the first time.
The miners saw a rainbow appear over the mining site at 5:30pm on the night of the draw – jokingly ‘that’s our pot of gold’.
The group of 19 miners who took home $53.3 million, in the country’s biggest Powerball jackpot, said a rainbow over their mining site predicted their life-changing win
The group saw the rainbow at 5:30 PM on the night of the draw. “We saw the rainbow land in the pit just behind us and thought ‘that’s our pot of gold for tonight,'” the miners said.
One of the winning miners of the mega jackpot (photo)
“We saw the rainbow land in the pit right behind us and thought ‘that’s our pot of gold for tonight,'” someone told the Kalgoorlie Miner.
The group originally believed that they had won the Second Division prize before the cardholder proclaimed that they were in fact the winners of the First Division.
“He’s a big joker, so nobody believed him,” the group said.
“It took some persuasion before it started to sink in that we had won.”
The syndicate joined a Sydney western father and a Victorian grandfather as the three prize winners in the $160 million Powerball draw.
The WA miners spent $100 each on the $160 million Powerball lottery in a last minute decision in Kalgoorlie – Boulder, in Western Australia
The ticket was bought at Boulder Newsagency and Lotto. Store owner Michael Saville said he was thrilled to be involved in helping 18 local Kalgoorlie-Boulder families
Members of the group that formed the syndicate said they would spend their profits on early retirement, vacations and pampering their families.
The ticket was bought at Boulder Newsagency and Lotto.
Store owner Michael Saville said he was thrilled to be involved in helping 18 local Kalgoorlie-Boulder families.