Gold Nugget Summer Sale
Crystalline gold nugget
Over three dozen gold nuggets and gold & silver specimens are being offered at special pricing with free shipping. If you want to start or add to your collection, now is the time to act! What about that someone special? Why not get a REAL unique gift for your special loved one?
The smaller nuggets in this Summer sale allow anyone to be able to afford a real, natural gold nugget. Also, in this sale are some very nice natural silver specimens as well as polished marble showing the gold throughout the specimens.
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Interesting Gold Facts
Gold FACTS
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Gold makes up 0.001 ppm of the earth’s crust, but 0.004 ppm of sea water.
Iron meteorites have been found to have gold concentrations of up to 7 ppm.
Various industries use 1,750 tons of gold per year (45.5 million ounces). Annual gold production is about 50 million ounces falling.
An average of 80 cubic yards of gravel must be sluiced to recover 1 ounce of gold.
Only 3% of gold is recovered from natural placer deposits; 77% is from load mining and 20% is recovered as a by-product of processing other metals.
Early records are incomplete, but the largest nugget recovered in California was discovered in Butte County and weighed 54 troy lbs; or 702 troy ounces.
The “Boot of Cortez” was found near the Arizona-Mexico border in 1989 with a metal detector. It weighs 389.4 troy ounces. You can buy it if you have a spare 3 million.
By contrast, the largest Alaskan nugget was found in 1998 in Ruby, AK by Barry Clay, it weighed 294.10 troy ounces; or 22.623 troy pounds! Still that is a mere pinky ring compared to the largest nugget ever found, it was in Victoria, Australia in 1869 and weighed 2,284 ounces; and unbelievable 175.623 troy pounds.
A one ounce gold nugget is as rare as a 5 carat diamond since only .1% of all gold is found in nugget form. Rough nuggets are rarer still since most get pounded into smooth lumps during their river journeys.
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Australian Gold Nugget
There is a fantastic gold nugget of high gold purity. This nugget cames from a very remote goldfield in Cape York which is in Northern Queensland, Australia. It is essentially the tropics, lots of grass, bugs and snakes – very tough prospecting. Even die-hard Australian detectorists seldom make it into that country. This nugget was found with the Minelab GP series detectors in the summer of 2004. Gold coming from this area is some of the purist Gold in the world! Nuggets this size are extremely rare & always command a premium of the common small nuggets!
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Large Australian gold nugget
Real gold nuggets. Great investments in natural gold to prepare for the coming inflation.
Gold nugget prospecting has a large selection of gold nuggets, gold specimens, silver nuggets, copper nuggets and pocket gram scales.
