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.

People have long been fascinated by nuggets, large aggregates of almost pure gold often found nestled within the host rock or loose in weathered sediments. But how exactly nuggets form remains a ...

the local carpenter spotted pea-sized flecks catching the sun's rays: small gold nuggets. “It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold,” Marshall later would say. News of the ...