Mr. Birkmyre says: “The gold of this nugget, from the crucible assays, I found to be 98'C6 per cent of pure gold. It thus contains only 1-75th of alloy, composed chiefly of silver and iron.

I n 2015, while prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, David Hole unearthed a heavy rock that he believed was a gold nugget.The region is historically rich in gold ...

The Gold Rush star showed off the gold nugget on social media, saying discoveries like this don’t happen often.

Important high-precision testwork on intercepts from Marmota Ltd’s Aurora Tank gold project in South Australia’s Gawler ... and to check against the “nugget effect”, whereby a drill ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. People have long been fascinated by nuggets, large aggregates of almost ...