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Alaska's 20 Largest Gold Nuggets

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Alaska's 20 Largest Gold Nuggets

Postby Morsecode » Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:59 pm

Note how many have been found in the last 30 years :P

http://www.akmining.biz/mine/nuggets.htm
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Postby blackrabbit » Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:23 pm

Drooly!
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Postby fasteddy » Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:31 am

I watched a show last night on PBS about the Klondike...the pics were black and white so you had to use your imagination on the color of those large rocks they were holding. They said on the show that the Mounties would not let you cross the pass into the area without 800 lbs of goods, a year supply for one man.
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Re: Alaska's 20 Largest Gold Nuggets

Postby brian0918 » Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:09 am

Look at the premium on the last nugget. In 2000, an ounce of gold was about $275. So the melt value on that nugget was under $12,000, but it sold for $50,000.

Ironically the current melt value for that nugget would be about $50,000.
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Postby Saabman » Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:31 am

Those are some sweeet pics!!! Thanks for posting them!!!!
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Re: Alaska's 20 Largest Gold Nuggets

Postby brian0918 » Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:08 pm

Time for a RealCent meetup in McGrath, AK? Do they allow metal detectors on planes? :mrgreen:
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Postby fasteddy » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:40 pm

just how big is a 294.1 troy oz gold nugget? It is the third time I have looked at these pics today!
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Postby brian0918 » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:45 pm

fasteddy wrote:just how big is a 294.1 troy oz gold nugget? It is the third time I have looked at these pics today!

Found some more pics. It's only a little bigger than a softball:

http://swiftcreekmine.com/sw_pages/TheNugget.htm
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Re: Alaska's 20 Largest Gold Nuggets

Postby PennysaverCP » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:45 pm

fasteddy wrote:I watched a show last night on PBS about the Klondike...the pics were black and white so you had to use your imagination on the color of those large rocks they were holding. They said on the show that the Mounties would not let you cross the pass into the area without 800 lbs of goods, a year supply for one man.



I saw that too. Pretty cool how people rushed out there in droves. I'd like to find a nugget or two like that.
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Re: Alaska's 20 Largest Gold Nuggets

Postby brian0918 » Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:49 pm

Looks like that PBS show is online here: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365353739/
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