• Less than 2% of the earth's gold is found in nugget form, making it one of the earth's most precious metals.
• Gold never occurs in pure form in nature. It is mixed with silver, copper, and other metals. Refined gold is 99.9% pure (24K). The Natural Gold Nuggets we use are mined in Old Klondike historic areas, such as Northern British Columbia (Atlin), Yukon (Dawson City), and in the USA (California, Oregon, and Alaska among Others.
• The chemical symbol for gold is Au, from the Latin word “Aurum”, meaning “Shining Dawn”. Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals, and can be hammered into a sheet thin enough so that light will pass through it. It is a great natural conductor of heat and electricity, as it is unaffected by air and most chemicals, and serves as a good barrier to radiation. It is used in jewellery, sculpture, currency, dentistry, computers, space helmets, satellites, and more.
• Gold nuggets used in our Jewellery are not processed at all, they are left in their natural state.
  
   

Why Nuggets are Special

• Medical studies have shown that gold is an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
• Gold is so pliable that it can be made into sewing thread. An ounce of gold can be stretched over 50 miles
• Gold is chemically inert, which also explains why it never rusts and does not cause skin irritation.
• The San Francisco 49ers are named after the 1849 Gold Rush miners.
• The world’s largest stockpile of gold can be found five stories underground inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s vault and it holds 25% of the world's gold reserve (540,000 gold bars). While it contains more gold than Fort Knox, most of it belongs to foreign governments
• The Olympic gold medals awarded in 1912 were made entirely from gold. Currently, the gold medals just must be covered in six grams of gold
• The largest gold nugget ever found is the “Welcome Stranger” discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates in Australia on February 5, 1869. The nugget is 10 by 25 inches and yielded 2,248 ounces of pure gold. It was found just two inches below the ground surface.

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