Let's see your "Gold Nuggets" if you got any or tell us what you like or dislike about them. Here are 35 grams of nuggets from Alaska. I got them from a fellow named Yukon Cornelius Bone
Hey those are great Bone. I don't have any nuggets, only a couple of flakes from when I panned for gold up in your neck of the woods. I love Yukon Cornelius! It's great when he gets all excited and says, "Goooold! Wahoooo!" Then he throws his pick up in the air, it sticks in the ice, then he picks it up and licks it. ha ha ha. LOL That cracks me up!
Yeah, those were classic shows. I do wish they'd show them more often. The Charlie Brown Christmas (holiday series) was another cool one/s too B
Last night I watched "Polar Express". What a strange movie, if you ever want to get a movie to scare the begeezus out of your children it's heartily recommended. Another scary one is "A Christmas Carol" with Alistair Sim. Very well done.. but I couldn't watch it alone... too dark.. too creepy.. missing Bela Lugosi
Those are sweet nuggets. They have obviously been polished, and appear to be remarkably pure. I have never seen native gold that shiney, or that "golden". Those appear to be placer nuggets, but they are not abraded. Were these nuggets manufactured by melting gold dust? It is a common practice.
Way COOL!!, I also collect minerals and cyristals in natural form, I need a gold nugget in quarts matrix, Someday.......
Not sure. I've bought them whenever I could afford to from an outfit near Fairbanks which sells nuggets on the internet. B
I have seen a lot of placer gold in my career as a mining geologist, but I never saw shiney nuggets. It makes sense if you consider that the gold, if natural, kicked around in an alluvial environment for who knows how many years. Natural placer gold is always frosted. Even crystalline (lode) gold is not all that shiney. I had a friend in college that "made" gold nuggets, because nuggets commanded a higher price per ounce than dust. People have been known to melt down gold teeth from crematoriums also. Sorry for the distasteful message. They pour the molten metal into sand and gravel, then tumble the mix. Done right, it is impossible to distinguish from the real thing. A few years ago, I made some beautiful pieces of "gold ore" to fool my daughter's father-in-law. The rock in the photos fooled my in-law and some experienced mining geologists. We now refer to my son-in-law's father as "Lucky" because he found this nice piece of gold ore at my gold mine. I have never done so myself. Some artifacts, gold flakes, but no chunks of gold. I fooled the geologists because my gold mine (wine cellar) is real, and the piece of rock I used is indeed mineralized quartz vein material from the area. It may carry a little gold. I just made it look better. :goof: The gold pan of the ceramic miner contains placer gold flakes. Not much to brag about.
Well now I wish that I still had my gold to share. Having grown up in Alaska we went panning every summer at a place called Crow Creek. I had a small vial just collecting dust on my shelves. Took it in and traded it for some ASE's. Almost wish I hadn't sometimes. :headbang: We would sluice and pan through what was tailings from an old strip mine operation. Those tailings were at least three stories tall!! Maybe some day we'll get back up there and find some more. Happy hunting, Michael
