Authentic Australian Natural Gold Nugget weighs 100.48 grams. 3.23 Troy Ounces, Very Rare Specimen.
48 MM LONG X 28 MM WIDE X 17 MM THICK AT LONGEST POINTS.
Australian nugget are very high in purity running from 94-98% pure. Most of my Australian nuggets come from Victoria's Golden Triangle Area.* All Nuggets are Pictured or Partially Pictured with a U.S Quarter which is 24.5MM in diameter to give you an idea of Size Proportion.
My name is Grant and my family owns a company called OROCAL which has been buying and selling thousands of ounces of Genuine Gold Nuggets each year since the 1960's.
In November of 2013 I opened up my Gold Nugget eBay store. With thousands of satisfied customers I will continue to strive to provide the highest quality, largest selection and best priced gold nuggets on eBay. Through using my connections from Orocal I can gain access to Nuggets in regions such as Alaska, Canada , and Australia directly from the miners ranging in sizes from small fines to 40 ounce nuggets. If your looking for a specific size I am sure to have it in the quality, value, and selection you desire. When you buy from me you will be guaranteed your nugget is genuine and not a man-made imitation with a certificate of authenticity backed by Orocal the number 1 natural gold Jewelry company in the World.
· What is a Natural Gold Nugget? It is a piece of gold that broke out of quartz deposits within the earth when erosion took place. It also goes by the name Placer Gold and each piece is a one of a kind with no two being exactly alike.
· Where can they be found? Wherever the effects of
erosion took place. That would include rivers, streams, ancient dried up river
channels and underground riverbeds.
· How pure are they? Gold nuggets range from 65 to 95 fine 16-23KT
gold and can have other mineral content such as silver and copper mixed in with
it.
· What sizes do they come in? Gold Nuggets come in all
sizes, the smaller one range in sizes from 1 millimeter up to 6 and is often
referred to as flakes. Bigger flakes are called nuggets and have been found as
large as 2500 ounces although almost all nuggets bigger than 300 ounces were
melted.
· How Are Natural Gold Nuggets
found? They
can be found in rivers and streams using a gold pan or suction dredges that act
like an underground vacuum cleaner. Larger operations use large machinery that
dig up huge sections of dirt weighing several tons and run it through machines
that separate the gold from the dirt. Nuggets are also found using a metal
detector.
· How are they weighed? They are weighed by the
troy ounces. 12 ounces = one pound which differs from weight which is 16 ounces
to the pound. The troy ounces are broke up into 20-penny weight to the ounces
and use the symbol DWT or by the grams which has 31.1 to the ounces. The larger
the nugget the more rare and valuable they are. A one-ounce nugget is now
considered as rare as a five-carat diamond. (How many of those do you own?)
· Why are some real bright and
others dull?
Because it was formed underground in quartz deposit you often find quartz mixed
in with it. When they broke off into the rivers and streams they tumbled
against the sand and gravel, which gave the nuggets, it’s texture but dulled
it. They can be cleaned in different solutions, and then tumbled in different
media to give it the shine.
· What do we
mean by Authentic, Genuine, Natural Gold Nuggets? Not all Gold nuggets are natural,
some people man-make them by taking smaller gold flakes melting them and
casting them into the shape of a nugget. Make sure to ask if they are genuine
natural gold nuggets as found by the miners and come with a certificate of
authenticity.
* All Nuggets are Pictured or Partially Pictured with a U.S. Quarter to give you an idea of Size Proportion
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