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Alaskan gold grains and nuggets of various sizes. 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 usually 20.5 to 22 karat (k) purity, meaning they are 83% to 92% gold by mass. Gold nuggets in Australia are often 23 k or slightly higher, while Alaskan nuggets are usually at the lower end of the spectrum. Purity can be roughly assessed by nugget color: the richer and deeper the orange-yellow, the higher the gold content.
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Eubrontes track in the Nugget Sandstone, Red Fleet State Park, Uintah County, Utah. The Nugget Sandstone is a Late Triassic to Early Jurassic geologic formation that outcrops in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, western United States. In Wyoming, it is composed of a lower hematite-stained siltstone and thin-bedded sandstone.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Glen Canyon Group/Navajo Sandstone Group/Nugget Formation: Jurassic: Glen Canyon Group/Wingate ...
This is followed by a period of insignificant orogenic gold formation from 1.6 Ga to 0.8 Ga which is argued to either be due to worldwide major extension associated with anorogenic magmatism, [45] [42] or due to erosion of narrow continental margins in which the orogenic gold was mineralized. [44] The formation of Godwana in the Neoproterozoic ...
Homestake high-grade gold ore, view is about 1.2 cm wide. The gold ore mined at Homestake was considered low grade (less than one ounce per ton), but the body of ore was large. [8] Through 2001, the mine produced 39,800,000 troy ounces (43,700,000 oz; 1,240,000 kg) of gold and 9,000,000 troy ounces (9,870,000 oz; 280,000 kg) of silver.
The Kayenta Formation pinches out and disappears to the north, in the Uintah Basin, and the Wingate Sandstone and Navajo Sandstone become indistinguishable. These remaining eolian beds have sometimes been mapped as simply Glen Canyon Formation, but they correlate with the Nugget Sandstone further north, and it has been recommended that they be ...