Native Gold Nugget
Caborca Municipality, Sonora Desert, Mexico
This dense gold nugget showcases a distinctive character with irregular, textured surfaces. One side presents smooth, rounded contours interspersed with numerous shallow cavities containing iron oxides and tiny quartz rock. The opposite side, by contrast, exhibits a smoother texture with broader, flatter, rounded areas, rendering each face distinctly different. Both surfaces gleam with a vivid luster and a rich, golden-yellow hue. Gold from this region achieves up to 98% purity, a rarity in natural gold, as gold nuggets seldom occurs with such exceptional purity in the wild.
8 x 5 x 2 mm
0.60 gram