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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.

Indeed, Oates and Deason had reportedly found 108oz and 36oz nuggets within about 100m of where the Welcome Stranger was discovered. “These big chunks of gold had been washed down into creeks ...

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 ...