Here is a wonderful Victorian found gold nugget for sale, very attractive. RF Analysis: Gold: 992/-, Silver 4/-,PT 0,45/- 1 647 g Starting bid is around 200K AUD https://uk.drouot.com/l/21097798
Over twice the size of its alleged cousin in the Natural History Museum in London which is "one of the largest clusters of cubic gold crystals in the world". Only thing is I see very few cubic gold crystals anywhere on it let alone clusters. It appears to have been cleaned with acid due to the (natural) holes and crevices that contained either ironstone and/or quartz. The best examples of faceted gold are found inside quartz reefs which have never been exposed to weathering or erosion by water. Going by the large amount of rounded knobs and smooth areas it may have been an elluvial nugget, one exposed or broken away from it's original reef but still with quartz or other host rock attached to parts of it which has preserved some of the golds original crystal formation rather than being fully eroded and smoothed like alluvial nuggets. They sort of say what I'm saying but in a roundabout sort of way I reckon.
