Nugget

[Midasfrog]

Two Nugget's !!!!!!!🤠

[Midasfrog]

[ZRPMs]

Would love to have a few nugget. Wouldn't even have to be this big. Unfortunately   these are all I get.

[Midasfrog]

$1 Million in chocolate money found only 15 feet under the water 🤫

[Midasfrog]

Nice bronze sword !!!!!

[Britannia47]

@Midasfrog

Here’s the largest nugget ever found in Australia (Victoria State) -  the ‘Welcome Stranger’ in 1869. Just so happens I have the 1oz nugget of 1987.  Also held a replica at the Perth mint a few years back…….over a hundred kilos! 
 

[pmbug]

What is the normal range for purity in gold nuggets found/mined from the ground?  99.7% pure seems amazing to me.

[pmbug]

Nugget in the OP was found in 2019:

https://www.dunollynews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/TWR-Volume-34-Issue-15-24.4.2019-INTERNET.pdf

[dicker]

On 18/12/2023 at 10:32, Britannia47 said:

@Midasfrog

Here’s the largest nugget ever found in Australia (Victoria State) -  the ‘Welcome Stranger’ in 1869. Just so happens I have the 1oz nugget of 1987.  Also held a replica at the Perth mint a few years back…….over a hundred kilos! 
 

In my opinion the Nugget is an underrated coin.  Especially the early ones.  

[Britannia47]

On 19/12/2023 at 14:36, pmbug said:

What is the normal range for purity in gold nuggets found/mined from the ground?  99.7% pure seems amazing to me.

A lot less I believe!  Larger nuggets are often encrusted with quartz & other materials which adds to the gross weight. I read that miners would often leave such nuggets in the camp fire overnight so that in the morning it was easier to remove the quartz. Even after refining a ‘London Good Delivery’  bar can show a stamped purity of 99.79……!

[Britannia47]

2 hours ago, dicker said:

In my opinion the Nugget is an underrated coin.  Especially the early ones.  

Say no more!    But it’s an excuse to put up more photos, including my ‘nugget’, holding the ‘ Welcome Stranger’ replica in Perth,  and lastly holding the heaviest 400oz bar at the Bank of England museum.

 

[Paul]

21 hours ago, Britannia47 said:

Say no more!    But it’s an excuse to put up more photos, including my ‘nugget’, holding the ‘ Welcome Stranger’ replica in Perth,  and lastly holding the heaviest 400oz bar at the Bank of England museum.

 

Big enough to even block @James32 's hoover

[Guest]

On 19/12/2023 at 14:36, pmbug said:

What is the normal range for purity in gold nuggets found/mined from the ground?  99.7% pure seems amazing to me.

It depends on the geographical location of the mine. Wikipedia says around 23K, but I suspect you could find anything from 50% to 99%. Gold and silver are good friends. But when there's too much silver people just stop calling them gold nuggets and use "electrum" instead, and that was used in some of the earliest minted coins in the world.