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*ALASKA GOLD* 

NOTE. If you win more than one auction, PLEASE  make only ONE payment

You are bidding on clean solid natural gold Alaskan nuggets (Placer gold). Great for jewelry making or investment.

At the time of this listing, gold is $1206.00 per ounce.   

Alaskan placer nuggets are generally 20.5KT to 22KT, or .82% to .92%. very rare. This gold comes from the Bonnifield mining district (Gold King Creek). (#14-20 mesh) THIS IS JEWELRY QUALITY.

  The total weight of these nuggets are:

3.229 DWT (Pennyweight)

If you are new to buying gold, here are some great tips:

Gold Weight:

Compare the weight in grams or ounces of the nugget to the current spot price of gold. (There are 31.1 grams per troy oz.) Nuggets do fetch more than raw melted gold due to its rarity in nugget form. Remember, gold weight is most often listed in troy and metric values. The weight of gold can be measured in troy ounces, grams, or penny weight. See chart below:

     1 oz. (troy) = 31.10 g (31.1 grams)

     1 oz. (troy) = 20 dwt (20 pennyweight)

     1.55 grams = 1 dwt (1 pennyweight)

     1.0 grams = 15.43 gr (15.43 grains)

Be sure you know the difference between a gram and a grain! Some unscrupulous sellers will intentionally mislead you by listing the weights incorrectly with common abbreviations (g is for grams and gr is for grains). If you see a 10gr nugget selling for $680.00 on eBay, watch out — it should be more like $68.00! 10 GRAINS is equal to just 0.479 GRAMS. Remember it takes 15.43 grains (gr) to make just one gram (g) of gold. And there are 31.1 grams to one troy ounce. A grain is the smallest unit of measurement of gold.

Gold nuggets are valued differently than raw gold and gold in coin form. When evaluating natural gold, consider several factors. Gold may be valued on: weight, rarity, physical dimensions, shine, brightness or luster, purity, origin, and whether the nugget is considered collector or specimen grade. Less than 2% of all gold mined is in nugget form. Gold nuggets are now rarer than diamonds.

DETERMINING FAIR VALUE: Gold Weight and Color!   For an average quality nugget, weight and color are your best bets for determining value. Look for bright and shiny gold — if the gold is dark, it may contain a high amount of copper or other less minerals and metals. Pure gold looks just as you would expect.

Testing Gold: The value of gold is based on the karat system, which is a 24 point scale, signifying the percentage of gold a piece of metal contains. So, if jewelry is 14KT, it is 14 out of 24 parts gold, or 58.33 percent gold. Nuggets are usually 20.5 to 22KT purity (83% — 92%). Gold is tested either with acid or electronically.

The acid test is the most reliable and commonly used method, yet can be dangerous due to the liquids used. This determines gold from base metals. This will show the general karat range, but is not completely accurate unless you are an experienced tester. Electronic testers are used often, but one thing to keep in mind is that these testers utilize a surface test and will only give you the karat of the actual spot you are testing. You will need to test in several spots to ensure that you didn’t just get one particularly fine area of the nugget. No electronic tester can test gold dust or flakes. Therefore, the only true accurate means is a destructive fire assay test, which means melting the gold.

Good Luck Bidding!

The picture you see is the gold you are bidding on. not photo-shopped or enhanced.

Payment

PLEASE wait until the end of the auction day to pay if you are bidding on more than one of my listings. ONLY ONE payment is HIGHLY preferred. Chance of a mixup only occurs when multiple payments by one person are made. If your payment will be longer than 3 days, just drop me a message to let me know. otherwise the automatic ebay UNPAID item will remind you. I’m happy to wait longer as long as you LET ME KNOW.

Shipping

Shipping is through United States Postal Service (USPS) only and I ship out within 24 hours of payment received; First Class and Priority mail are relatively fast from Alaska and travel at the same speed. There are also many times where tracking info is just not available or does not indicate correctly. no explanation for that. Do not panic; I will do that for you.

If the auction does not state WORLDWIDE, I will not ship WORLDWIDE.

CANADA & EUROPE: Shipping to foreign countries is VERY slow from Alaska. It will take a minimum of two weeks. To ensure that your item is safe, Priority FLAT rate International is the most economical and safest way to ship. For the smallest package or envelope, it is $24.95. If the value is more than $400, the rate will be higher due to insurance. For CANADA ONLY; if your item is under $200, I can ship FIRST CLASS Int’l for only $7.95. The Customs form will state Mineral Sample and the value will be stated low to keep your customs duty fees at zero or a minimum.

Combined shipping. Please wait until the END of the day to pay for all your auctions at once; then I can combine shipping. U.S. Price all depends on ins. coverage rates. You may combine any number of gold nuggets for the same shipping price for international. Shipping charges INCLUDE U.S. Postal insurance coverage. The item/s will be covered with the U.S. Postal service to ensure your shipment arrives safely.

Terms of Sale

100% Money back guarantee if you are not happy with your gold for any reason. Please give me the courtesy of the reason for a return prior to leaving less than positive feedback. I will do all I can to make it right.

About Us

A bit about where most of my gold is mined

My Alaskan placer gold nuggets are from Fairbanks, FortyMile, Bonnifield, Rampart and Ophir mining districts, Alaska. If you are looking for a particular size/weight/type of nugget, let me know in a message. I can acquire just about any type of Alaskan nugget you are searching for. Please note that the color and shine of the gold will vary, depending on the creek and assay.

The Ophir District is where a majority of my gold was mined. It was named by miners after the wealthy land of Ophir mentioned in the Old Testament. The area was the site of a gold rush in 1906. Ophir reached a peak population of 122 in 1910. The two main creeks in the Ophir District are Ganes Creek and Mackey, both with assays of over 87% pure.

The village of Ophir is now abandoned, but serves as a checkpoint in the Iditerod Sled Dog Race. An airport with a single gravel runway exists at the village, built prior to 1949. It is currently in disuse and unmaintained.

There are a number of creeks near Ophir, all on the west bank of the Innoko, where gold placers were located starting about 1906. Yankee creek is the closest to the source of the river, then Ganes, Little and Spruce creek, all above Ophir creek. The original Iditarod trail ran above Ganes creek in the summer, down the Innoko valley in the winter; the current race trail goes through the old townsite, which was destroyed in a brush fire started by a camper in the 1970s, and is a rest stop.

Mining still goes on at Ganes and Little creeks, and probably at Ophir creek (2006). Further downriver, on the east side, there were mining operations at Folger, Cripple, Bear and Colorado creeks. Bear creek and Colorado still are actively mined (2006). Mining of tailings was underway at Cripple in 2010.

There were at least eight mining operations near Ophir in 1949, including two dredges, but $35 gold winnowed them down to none by about 1955. There was sporadic mining after that, with new operations starting in the 1970s. This district has some of the highest purity content of gold in Alaska and on the continent. It ranges between .87+% to over .94% purity.

The Fortymile River is a 60-mile (97 km) tributary of the Yukon River in the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon. Beginning at the confluence of its north and south forks in the Southeast Fairbanks Census area the Fortymile flows generally northeast into Canada to meet the larger river 32 miles (51 km) southeast of Eagle, Alaska.

Prospectors named the river after gold was discovered there in 1886. The name reflected the distance of the river mouth from Fort Reliance, a former Hudsons Bay Company post upstream along the Yukon River. Miners eventually extracted more than a half-million ounces of gold from the Fortymile watershed. After the gold discovery, two Alaska Commercial Company traders, Leroy N. McQuesten and Arthur Harper, built a post at the mouth of the river.

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