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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;quick dog, post: 95319, member: 4093&quot;]I have seen a lot of placer gold in my career as a mining geologist, but I never saw shiney nuggets.&nbsp; It makes sense if you consider that the gold, if natural, kicked around in an alluvial environment for who knows how many years.&nbsp; Natural placer gold is always frosted.&nbsp; Even crystalline (lode) gold is not all that shiney.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had a friend in college that &quot;made&quot; gold nuggets, because nuggets commanded a higher price per ounce than dust.&nbsp; People have been known to melt down gold teeth from crematoriums also.&nbsp; Sorry for the distasteful message.&nbsp; They pour the molten metal into sand and gravel, then tumble the mix.&nbsp; Done right, it is impossible to distinguish from the real thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago, I made some beautiful pieces of &quot;gold ore&quot; to fool my daughter&#039;s father-in-law.&nbsp; The rock in the photos fooled my in-law and some experienced mining geologists.&nbsp; We now refer to my son-in-law&#039;s father as &quot;Lucky&quot; because he found this nice piece of gold ore at my gold mine.&nbsp; I have never done so myself.&nbsp; Some artifacts, gold flakes, but no chunks of gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.&nbsp; It may carry a little gold.&nbsp; I just made it look better. :goof: </p><p><br /></p><p>The gold pan of the ceramic miner contains placer gold flakes.&nbsp; Not much to brag about.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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