With that in mind…get a load (and a lode) of these historic nuggets, and the unique and colorful stories behind each of them. While there’s no official breakdown or classification of sizes between dust, flakes, pickers and nuggets, a piece of gold is often considered a nugget when it exceeds one gram in weight. The most common size of gold is so fine that it’s called “gold dust” - and it might take thousands and thousands of gold dust pieces to compile a single ounce of gold. To get a sense of just how large and rare these nuggets are, consider that around 98% of the gold that’s been mined from Earth didn’t come in the form of a placer gold nugget, since the vast majority of gold is typically recovered by forcefully blasting it out. In fact, as “luck” might have it, each of these three beauties was unearthed in one particular exotic locale: Australia. And in fact, the largest intact gold nugget currently in existence, the Hand of Faith, is now on display at the Golden Nugget Casinoīut for the purposes of this blog, we’ll take a closer look at the three largest gold nuggets ever discovered – not just in America, but throughout our mineral-rich planet. When you hear the term “Gold Nugget” today, you might think of a classic Las Vegas casino. Its place is equally prominent when it comes to our treasured jewelry pieces. Its discovery drove, inspired and expanded America, paving a brilliant path to modern society, ingenuity and industry.
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