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Largest gold nugget ever found in California
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If you found one this big, how would you handle the discovery?
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I'd sell it quick since we all know gold has no future.
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The caption said it weighed 103 pounds. Any idea how big it is? Perhaps the size of a cantaloupe?
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The picture is for an exact replica. Do you know what happened to the original one?
Another caption I found said it was about 2 feet by 2 feet.
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Must have been a lot of quartz in the original if it was two feet across. If it were 21kt gold (a fair approximation for California gold, and close enough as a rough estimate) without quartz it would make up a cube approx. 5.5 inches on a side.
I read geologists claim only around 10% of the California Gold has been recovered. The rest is buried too deep under the river deltas downstream.
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Yes...there is a lot more gold in 'them thar hills'...getting to it is the problem....Cheers, RickO
Wow !!!
Man oh man....I never seen anything like that.
That is amazing.... a truly incredible find.... Cheers, RickO
I do a ton of hiking in California. I think about finding gold 70% of the time while I'm do it. The other 30% of the time I think about how the hell am I going find my way out of here.
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@Justacommeman ... There is a lot of gold in California still... some say more than has ever been taken out....And with the rainstorms this year, gold country will be busy... so some stream hiking...and pick up the shiny stuff....
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For something like that is it finders keepers?
Frankly, nowadays I'd keep my yap SHUT!
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After the rains. The locals gold country call it flood gold.
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And somewhere there in gold country.... another big one (maybe more) exists.... And after this super rain that CA is experiencing, it would be a good time to go out nugget hunting... and bring the MD as well to scan washed banks...Cheers, RickO
That rain doesn't seem to be much in the news.
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@BAJJERFAN....supposed to be a real heavy, long rainstorm... called it a 'river of rain'...Cheers, RickO
https://www.google.com/search?q=california+weather&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS701US701&oq=california+weather&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3422j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Saw that too, but don't see where it's making national headlines.
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Rain in CA is much less this year than last.
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@BAJJERFAN .... I did not see national headlines... have friends there and they told me about it and the threat of flooding and slides. Cheers,RickO
The item I saw was that they were bracing for big rains through Tuesday in the areas of the recent fires, but apparently those never materialized to a serious extent.
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If anyone on these boards found that they would likely welcome the rain to hide the fact that they had wet their pants.