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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 ...
Three gold nuggets from Tuolumne County, California, similar to what the early miners would have found. Gold became highly concentrated in California, United States as the result of global forces operating over hundreds of millions of years. Volcanoes, tectonic plates and erosion all combined to concentrate billions of dollars' worth of gold in ...
The Fricot Nugget is a crystalline gold nugget found in El Dorado County, California in 1865 during the California Gold Rush by William Russell Davis. [1] It is listed as the eleventh largest gold nugget ever found, and is the second largest gold nugget found in the United States of America.
Ed Allen, a historian at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, said that only 10% to 15% of the gold in California has been found. Terry Prebalick, a gold hunter who has been working ...
(Left) Two water-worn gold nuggets from Tuolumne County. They are typical of larger nuggets found by the early California gold rush placer miners (each ~1.6 x 1.1 x 0.3 cm). (Right) Crystalline gold specimen from the California Mother Lode, probably from Tuolumne County (5.3 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm).
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.
The largest true California gold nugget, known as the "Dogtown Nugget", weighed 54 troy pounds (20 kg), and was found in Magalia, California. A 195-pound troy (73 kg) mass of gold mixed with quartz was also found. Alaska has many sites for the prospector, both public and private.
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 ...