Lot #58: Australia Gold Nugget . 9 G Authentic

Authentic gold nugget from Hannans North Tourist mine. So the experience works like this you go to a river with your family with a guide for $110 per head and you dig some holes out of the river bank and than scoop the dirt into a gold pan and swish it around until the water is gone. Let me tell you that its fun for the first 4 or 5 pans and then you see that you have a couple of specks and I am not exaggerating they are literally like a grain of sand. They give you a glass vile and we as a family of four collected about 0.001 of a gram lets just say that it would not register on the scale after 3 hours of panning. So I said to the guide thats it and he commented well you can purchase a bag of our pay dirt . I commented whats that about and than the sales pitch started for $200 U.S. you can get a bag of pay dirt with flake but for $300 you are guaranteed at least one nugget. Trust me if you ever go to Australia just buy a bag of pay dirt and forget the 3 hours of panning unless you like hearing every one in the group by the 2nd hour more than done with the experience. So for your consideration the.9 of a gram gold nugget that I panned in Australia. It is cool though there is something about holding a gold nugget that is cool and it does make a great conversation piece. The guide said that most of the nuggets are 22 k and it has the tiniest piece of quartz I think as well. Take a look at the pictures and good luck.