See the 5 Biggest Gold Nuggets ever found by humans. With the second-largest gold nugget finding recently in Australia (2018).
Gold Nugget - (n) a naturally occurring piece of native high-density gold.
Gold nuggets often get recovered by placer mining, but they also get found in residual deposits where the gold-bearing veins or lodes get weathered. Gold nuggets also get discovered in the tailings piles of previous mining operations, especially those left by gold mining dredges.
Gold nuggets typically have a 21K to 22K gold purity (88% to 92% gold by mass weight).
Historically gold nuggets found in Australia are often 23K or higher purity. Alaskan gold nuggets are usually at the lower end of the gold nugget purity spectrum.
A gold nugget’s fineness or purity can be roughly assessed by a gold nugget’s color. The darker and more vibrant an orange-yellow coloring a gold nugget has the higher percentage the gold content yield it has typically.
Gold nuggets high in silver content constitute the alloy electrum, which is the gold-silver mixed composition of the first gold coins struck and used in Ancient Lydia around 600 B.C.
Below we count down the 5 Biggest Gold Nuggets ever recorded with the second-largest find recently occurring only months ago in Australia
5 Biggest Gold Nuggets Ever Found
RANK
GOLD
NUGGET
NAME
LOCATION
FOUND
YEAR FOUND
GOLD TROY OUNCE YIELD
5th Largest
Para, Brazil
1983
1,683 troy ounces of gold
4th Largest
Ballarat, Australia
1858
2,196 troy ounces gold
3rd Largest
Victoria, Australia
1869
2,284 troy ounces gold
2nd Largest
Kambalda East, Australia
2018
2,300 troy ounces gold*
Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found
New South Wales, Australia
1872
3,000 troy ounces gold
Watch the accompanying video below to learn more about the year 2018 RNC Minerals gold strike in Australia.
This record-breaking gold haul reportedly yielded over 9,000 troy ounces total with gold extraction estimates of over $15 million fiat USD in gold value at the then fluctuating gold price.
2018 RNC Minerals' Beta Hunt Mine Find: 4 Gold Nuggets
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Good news!
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