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2. Gold nugget - Wikipedia

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   A large gold nugget from Nevada County, California, on display at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Nuggets are gold fragments weathered out of an original lode . [ 1 ] They often show signs of abrasive polishing by stream action, and sometimes still contain inclusions of quartz or other lode matrix material.

3. List of gold nuggets by size - Wikipedia

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   Two gold nuggets are claimed as the largest in the world: the Welcome Stranger and the Canaã nugget, the latter being the largest surviving natural nugget. Considered by most authorities to be the biggest gold nugget ever found, the Welcome Stranger was found at Moliagul , Victoria, Australia in 1869 by John Deason and Richard Oates.

4. Native metal - Wikipedia

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   Most gold is mined as native metal and can be found as nuggets, veins or wires of gold in a rock matrix, or fine grains of gold, mixed in with sediments or bound within rock. The iconic image of gold mining for many is gold panning, which is a method of separating flakes and nuggets of pure gold from river sediments due to their great density ...

5. Mojave Nugget - Wikipedia

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   The Mojave Nugget is a large gold nugget found in California, United States. It was found in the Stringer district near Randsburg by prospector Ty Paulsen in 1977 using a metal detector . The nugget, which weighs 156 troy ounces (4.9 kg), is part of the Margie and Robert E. Petersen Collection of gold nuggets that was donated to the Natural ...

6. Potato Creek Johnny - Wikipedia

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   Discovery of one of the largest gold nuggets in the Black Hills John Eli Perrett (February 9, 1866 or 1868 – February 26, 1943), better known as Potato Creek Johnny , [ a ] was an American frontiersman and gold miner , best known for having discovered one of the largest gold nuggets ever discovered in the Black Hills in 1929.

7. Huge golden nugget found in Australia worth a staggering amount

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   A man discovered an enormous gold nugget that is reportedly valued at $250,000! He found the nugget during a weekend search for gold and coins in central Victoria's Golden Triangle, an area in ...