[Geology2] Washington Nugget: Huge Piece of Gold Up For Bid

Washington Nugget: Huge piece of gold up for bid

Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer

San Francisco Chronicle March 16, 2011 04:00 AM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

It's humongous. It's rare. It's the sort of thing prospectors used to get shot over.

It's the 98.6-ounce Washington Nugget - the largest piece of smooth California gold in existence, and by the end of today, someone at a Sacramento auction will probably have paid more than a quarter of a million dollars for it.

The nugget was dug up with a pick last March by a man strolling his land near the historic Sierra Gold Rush town of Washington (Nevada County). He promptly trotted it over to Reno to show it to mining geologist Fred Holabird, who says he promptly fell on the floor in astonishment.

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