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The name loquat derives from Cantonese lou 4 gwat 1 (Chinese: 盧橘; pinyin: lújú; lit. 'black orange'). The phrase 'black orange' originally referred to unripened kumquats, which are dark green in color, but the name was mistakenly applied to the loquat by the ancient Chinese poet Su Shi when he was residing in southern China, and the mistake was widely taken up by the Cantonese region ...
A gold nugget is a naturally occurring piece of native gold. Watercourses often concentrate nuggets and finer gold in placers. Nuggets are recovered by placer mining, but they are also found in residual deposits where the gold-bearing veins or lodes are weathered. Nuggets are also found in the tailings piles of previous mining operations ...
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. From then until the end of his life, Potato Creek Johnny became a local celebrity ...
The mandarinquat, also misleadingly called orangequat, [1] is any cross between a mandarin and a kumquat (Citrus crassifolia). Mandarinquats are members of the citrofortunella group. The variety Nippon orangequat was first introduced in 1932 by Dr. Eugene May of the USDA [ 2 ] as a hybrid between the Meiwa kumquat and the Satsuma mandarin .
The world's largest gold nugget on display, the Hand of Faith, is still shown today in the Golden Nugget lobby. [15] Weighing 875 troy ounces (960 oz; 60.0 lb; 27,200 g) and 18 inches (46 cm) in length, the Hand of Faith was found near Kingower, Victoria , Australia , and put on display at the casino in 1981 amid a number of other gold nuggets.
Gold nuggets of various sizes have been found throughout the world. Historically, the nuggets are melted down and formed into new objects. The Welcome Stranger is the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found, which had a calculated refined weight of 97.14 kilograms (3,123 ozt). Three of the biggest nuggets come from the Brazilian Serra Pelada mine.
It was sold to the Golden Nugget Casino chain for over a million dollars. [1] The Hand of Faith is currently on public display at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas [2] in the United States. Replicas of the nugget are on display at a number of Golden Nugget casinos, including the Golden Nugget Laughlin and the Golden Nugget Atlantic City.
[16] [17] The gold objects unearthed included some 25 gold hoofs (a type of sycee) with varying weights from 40 to 250 grams and 50 very large gold coins weighing about 250 grams each. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The gold coinages were packed inside of three different boxes that were placed under a bed that was located inside of the main chamber of the tomb.