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Rare Crystal Gold Nugget on HA.com - The "EAGLE"

sebrownsebrown Posts: 424 ✭
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Heritage Auctions currently has this 779-gram (25.045 Troy Oz) Australian nugget up for auction....only $100k opening bid with a 19.5% buyer's premium. Get your bids in early! image

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    While I will not be bidding on that nugget, I can state unequivocally, it is one of the most attractive I have ever seen. Cheers, RickO
  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Should be called the "Spread Eagle".image

    Over 25 OZS....thats one big nugget.
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
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    Becky
  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    very neat, wish I had that kind of money, I'd have an awesome collection imageimage
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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 12,987 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Amazing.
    Any geologists out there?
    How the heck did it get that get into that crystalline formation?

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,760 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Amazing.
    Any geologists out there?
    How the heck did it get that get into that crystalline formation? >>



    Not a geologist but gold comes in generally two forms: nuggets and crystalline.

    Nuggets are generally found in placers (free gold).
    Crystalline gold is generally found in the lodes or ore bodies.

    Once crystalline gold is set free by nature and finds it's way out of the mountain it
    quickly becomes a nugget. Since gold is so mailable it is easily transformed from one
    type to another rather quickly.

    bob
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