This beautiful Mariposa County, California gold nugget is a striking example of naturally sculpted native gold. Displaying a rich, buttery luster and substantial compact form, the piece features broad, folded surfaces and deeply contoured recesses that create exceptional depth and dimensionality. Its overlapping formations give the nugget a bold, sculptural quality, with an intriguing natural shape that reveals different details from every angle.
The surface combines softly textured areas with smoother, highly reflective faces, while sweeping folds and undulating contours accentuate its rich golden color and substantial character. Bright and highly lustrous, this nugget possesses the unmistakable warmth and natural beauty associated with California gold. A distinctive and highly displayable collectible, it offers exceptional visual character along with a tangible connection to the legendary gold country of Mariposa County and California’s historic Mother Lode.
Item #GU459
Weight: 4.10 grams
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There is gold and then there is GOLD! Not all gold was created equal. At GoldNuggetsForSale.com we spend most of our time seeking out the world’s finest gold nuggets and gold specimens.
Only about 2% of the gold in the world is in “gold nugget” form and the other 98% is microscopic speck and flake gold found in ore. A good gold ore today will have about one ounce of gold for every two tons of rock.
Even rarer are crystallized gold specimens and only about 0.04% of the gold in the world is crystallized. These natural gold nuggets and gold specimens are true - one of a kind - masterpieces from the earth’s natural elements and are found mostly in pockets where the gold was able to crystallize while it formed, much the same way other crystals form deep inside the earth.
Most of the hard rock mines that uncovered these extremely rare gold nugget crystals are closed today and it is extremely rare to have a new discovery of crystallized gold nuggets or gold specimens.
At Goldnuggetsforsale.com, we are experts on natural gold nuggets and gold specimens and guarantee all our gold nuggets and gold specimens are natural and not man-made.
