![]() Three of these additional gold nuggets are listed with gold content weights of 30.56 kgs, 29.89 kgs, and 28.2 kgs, respectively, which would make them larger than both the ‘Hand of Faith’ nugget and the ‘Normandy Nugget’. A list of these gold nuggets can be seen here. There are actually a number of gold nuggets from Brazil’s Serra Pelada region on display in the Brazilian central bank’s museum. Nowadays however, Nevada and Alaska are the US’ two primary gold producing states, although there are still gold mining operations in California such as New Gold’s Mesquite gold mine. The US is still a major gold producer, and in 2016 produced an estimated 209 tonnes of gold according to US Geological Surveys (USGS), putting it in fourth place behind, Chine, Australia and Russia. Gold and California have been interlinked since the famous northern California gold rush of the late 1840s – early 1850s. The Ironstone “nugget” is now on display at a heritage museum in Ironstone Vineyards in California, and is sometimes referred to as the “Kautz Crystalline Gold Leaf Specimen” in reference to John Kautz, owner of Ironstone Vineyards. Ironstone Crown Jewel, Crystalline Leaf Gold The “Hand of Faith” nugget was purchased by the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and is currently on display in the casino lobby on East Fremont Street in the old downtown center of Las Vegas. ![]() It contains 875 troy ounces of gold, and has dimensions of 47 cms * 20 cms * 9 cms. This gold nugget has the distinction of being the largest gold nugget ever found using a metal detector. The “Hand of Faith” is a 27.66 kgs gold nugget found by in the area of Kingower, Victoria, Australia in 1980 by a local, Kevin Hillier. Russia is currently the world’s 3rd largest gold producer, with mining production output of 250 tonnes of gold in 2016. While the Urals was one of Russia’s first gold mining areas, today, there are extensive gold mining operations in many areas of the Russian Federation, particularly in the East of the country. The Diamond Fund is an extensive permanent exhibition of the Russian state’s crown jewels, precious stones and gold and platinum nuggets. The Great Triangle gold nugget is owned by the Russian State, and through the Gokhran Fund (State Fund for Precious Stones and Precious Metals), it is currently on display in the ‘ Diamond Fund‘ collection in the Kremlin in Moscow. The Great Triangle gold nugget on display at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia Notably, the source nugget from which the Pepita Canaã nugget came was actually larger, but it split into several pieces while being removed from the ground. The “Canaan” gold nugget was purchased by the Banco Central do Brazil in 1984, and is now on display in the “Gold Room” of the central bank’s money museum (Museu de Valores do Banco Central in Brazil) in Brazil’s federal capital Brasilia. The Pepita Canaã gold nugget has a gross weight of 60.82 kgs and contains 52.33 kgs of gold, or 1682 troy ounces of gold. The world’s largest surviving gold nugget is the Pepita Canaã (Canaan Nugget) which was found by miner Júlio de Deus Filho in the Serra Pelada (‘Naked Mountain’) gold mining region of Brazilian state of Pará in 1983. Therefore, the following list, based on research to the best of our abilities, profiles the largest ‘named’ gold nuggets which are still in one piece, all of which are famous, all of which are on display, and all of which can be visited by the public. We think a list of gold nuggets which still exist is more accurate, since many historical nuggets are now just legends and have long since been melted down into gold bars or gold coins. There are also a number of “largest gold nuggets” lists which confusingly mix historical nuggets which no longer exist alongside nuggets which still exist. ![]() Obviously, not all of these claims can be true. There are a number of gold nuggets which claim to be the world’s largest. “Gold nuggets” can also technically be extracted from hard rock gold deposits as long as the surrounding rock can be removed. Gold nuggets can be found in alluvial deposits (sediments formed by water movement) or in other placer deposits (formed by other movement), but gold nuggets can also be found in or close to primary gold deposits, for example gold lodes or veins which have been exposed by the weather.
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