Authentic Natural Gold Nugget Pendant weighs .68 grams and was found near Skagway Alaska.I describe it as Alaskan Yukon BC nugget because if was found in Atlin, BC Canada about 50 miles as the crow flies from Skagway Alaska where the miners of the 1898 Klondike gold rush traveled through to reach the gold fields.

Please note the pendant bale is made of 10Kt for durability on our smaller die struck or 14kt gold on our larger bales that are casted. They do not include a chain. Each Nugget is filmed next to a US quarter that is 24.5MM in diameter. We purchased the gold in a dirty form directly from the gold miners than clean it of dirt, rock quartz and tumble them for shine. We test our nuggets by sound, torch and scope and guarantee they are authentic and not man made.

My name is Grant I come from a 4thgeneration family of jewelers and gold dealers. My great grandpa Jack was a master watch maker in the San Francisco Bay area where he had 28 other watch makers working under him. In the 1930\'s He moved to Oroville and started his owna retail jewelry store. His son ,my grandpa Roy who made gold nugget jewelry in retail store started wholesaling them and the business grew so much he opened up the company called Orocal in the mid 1960\'s. In the 1980\'s My father David was one of the first people to make and whole sale gold in quartz jewelry and helped create a huge jewelry market of gold quartz and natural gold nugget jewelry in Alaska. He has also sold millions of dollars worth of gold nuggets and is an expert in this field. Over the last 50 years our family has made connections with some of the best gold miners in the world often buying the miners entire production. I have a background with a business degree with a concentration in online communication. I was the first one in the family to put Gold Nuggets on the Internet and sell to thousands of people from all over the world. I have sold millions of dollars in gold nuggets to my customers and have always worked hard to satisfy each and every customer. If your looking for a certain size and type nugget and don\'t see it in my store contact me chances are I have it in the safe and haven\'t listed it yet. A portion of our profit from our top selling items goes to charity to help Christian Ministries in impoverished countries. We believe that by giving back this allows us to be blessed with new connections finding gold.

All nuggets are pictured by a US quarter for comparison witch has a diameter of 24.66 mm and a width of 1.75mm. The scale is calibrated before every batch and the scales are new. The nuggets are also pictured on both sides. Also every nugget comes with a certificate of authenticity 110% money back guaranteed.

· What is a Natural Gold Nugget?It is a piece of gold that broke out of quartz deposits within the earth when erosion took place. It also goes by the name Placer Gold and each piece is a one of a kind with no two being exactly alike.

· Where can they be found? Wherever the effects oferosion took place. That would include rivers, streams, ancient dried up riverchannels and underground riverbeds.

· How pure are they? Gold nuggets range from 65 to 95 fine 16-23KTgold and can have other mineral content such as silver and copper mixed in withit.

· What sizes do they come in? Gold Nuggets come in allsizes, the smaller one range in sizes from 1 millimeter up to 6 and is oftenreferred to as flakes. Bigger flakes are called nuggets and have been found aslarge as 2500 ounces although almost all nuggets bigger than 300 ounces weremelted.

· How Are Natural Gold Nuggetsfound? Theycan be found in rivers and streams using a gold pan or suction dredges that actlike an underground vacuum cleaner. Larger operations use large machinery thatdig up huge sections of dirt weighing several tons and run it through machinesthat separate the gold from the dirt. Nuggets are also found using a metaldetector.

· How are they weighed? They are weighed by thetroy ounces. 12 ounces = one pound which differs from weight which is 16 ouncesto the pound. The troy ounces are broke up into 20-penny weight to the ouncesand use the symbol DWT or by the grams which has 31.1 to the ounces. The largerthe nugget the more rare and valuable they are. A one-ounce nugget is nowconsidered as rare as a five-carat diamond. (How many of those do you own?)

· Why are some real bright andothers dull?Because it was formed underground in quartz deposit you often find quartz mixedin with it. When they broke off into the rivers and streams they tumbledagainst the sand and gravel, which gave the nuggets, it’s texture but dulledit. They can be cleaned in different solutions, and then tumbled in differentmedia to give it the shine.

· What do we mean by Authentic, Genuine, Natural Gold Nuggets?Not all Gold nuggets are natural, some people man-make them by taking smaller gold flakes melting them and casting them into the shape of a nugget. Make sure to ask if they are genuine natural gold nuggets as found by the miners and come with a certificate of authenticity.

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