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A bead or stone that is unshaped.
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Nugget: The term used for a lump, or irregularly shaped mass, of precious metal.
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Nugget - A lump or irregularly shaped mass
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Nugget
Nugget is a word used to describe a piece of irregularly shaped metal.
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Oiling
Oiling is a technique that is applied to gemstones in order to hide inclusions.
Nugget: an irregular bead with no definite shape; a lump. Usually larger than a chip, this shape is also known as a knucklebone or macadam.
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Octagon: any bead with eight sides. This shape is also known as octagonal.
Nugget
A naturally occurring piece of gemstone or a mineral, that is attractive without further shaping. No two are exactly alike. Back to Index ...
Nugget - A lump of unshaped precious metal.
Oiling - Oiling infuses colorless oils, resins and waxes into tiny surface-breaking fissures to hide them and give gems a clean-complexioned appearance.
Nugget
Chunks or pieces of gold, mainly found in alluvial deposits are known as nuggets. The largest nugget is called the 'Welcome Stranger', found in Australia in 1858, which weighed 2,284 ounces (71.04 kilos).
[A nugget of dyed Howlite sawn open to reveal its true nature, Howlite posing as the fictional "white turquoise"] ...
Nuggets with attached matrix can be found, but well-crystallized gold on matrix, is much less common.
Near Aberfeldy, in Perthshire, a rare, small find of matrix gold was found some years ago.
Nuggets & Chunks - Irregular shaped beads usually listed as nuggets when they are smaller and chunks when larger.
Rondelle or Roundelle - Disk shape that can vary in size
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Nugget
A lump or irregularly shaped mass.
Onyx
A semi-precious stone composed of chalcedony (a variety of quartz) found naturally in white or gray. The white variety is generally dyed black for onyx.
nugget
A lump or irregularly shaped mass.
omega
Flat chain with a solid surface formed by the links and worn high on the neck.
Gold Nugget (photo: US Gov)
The adjective "auric" refers to something being made of gold. Gold does not react with most chemicals but can be attacked by corrosive agents such as aqua regia, chlorine, and fluorine.
Gold Nugget - Placer gold which has been washed out of the rocks generally into river beds where it has been beaten by the water and rocks into a "nugget" shape.
Gold Plate - A common term for electro-gold plating.
Chocolate Nuggets
Similar to bourbon balls, rolled in coconut.
Raspberry Bon Bons
Another similar recipe using raspberry preserves and liqueur.
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Gold Nugget: A lump of native gold that is generally found in river or stream beds. Sometimes used in their found form and mounted into jewelry or melted and alloyed into manufactured gold.
chondrules Small nuggets of rocky material that exist in certain meteorites. These droplets of matter are believed to have condensed from our solar system's original nebula about five billion years ago. Their primary element is iron.
For some designs, rather than starting with nuggets of gold, the jeweler starts with a length of gold that is already shaped into a round rod.
Copper: A common, reddish-brown metallic element, copper is the only metal which occurs abundantly in large masses as opposed to small veins or nuggets that must be mined out of other rocks.
Editor’s Note: Continuing with our tradition of reproducing some of the nuggets from the literature of gems from bygone eras, we are proud to present this article from Dr. Valentine Ball.
Digger's brooches, stickpins, vest buttons, rings and other items, all with gold nuggets, were popular examples of gold rush jewelry. A San Francisco firm located on Sutter Street, called the California Jewelry Co.
The baroques, which are becoming increasingly fashionable in rings, earrings and pendants, are classified into wings, hammers, nuggets, barrels round a circle, dogtooth, twins, and rosebuds.
These obsidian nuggets are usually round or oval and have a grey-white perlite matrix inside. Apache tears are said to protect you from being taken advantage of, promote success in business, and increase psychic powers. (photo by Eli Hodapp) ...
The earliest silver jewelry was quite crude, generally limited to rough nuggets strung together as a necklace.
So we can find Gold Nuggets, Gold Leaves, Gold Bar, Gold Coins and many other forms of gold.
Several different mines operate or have operated at each of the New Mexico locations mentioned, producing seam and nugget turquoise. Many of the more famous and higher-quality deposits are economically depleted.
Rare samples of ore in the form of exceptionally beautiful crystals, exotic layering (when sectioned or polished) or metallic presentations such as large nuggets or crystalline formations of metals such as gold or copper may command a value far ...
Baroque: A natural freeform shape. Some cultured pearls and gold nuggets are baroque shapes.
Belcher link: Simple round link common in Georgian and Victorian chains.
Isometric; octahedral, dodecahedral, cubic ...often distorted as nuggets
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The metal occurs as nuggets or grains in rocks, underground "veins" and in alluvial deposits. It is one of the coinage metals. Gold is dense, soft, shiny and the most malleable and ductile substance known.
To quote Mr Hughes from his Letter to the Editor in the same issue, "Truth is indeed a wicked mistress, but I have tamed the dame enough to extract . . . nuggets (from) the forthcoming edition of Ruby Sapphire.
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Turquoise, which is typically found only in very small nugget like sizes is usually cut in cabochon shapes (flat bottomed with a polished domed top), carved, made into beads or used for inlay work.
Now and then Nature gives us a surprise by having created bicoloured stones, like the ones recently found in Bolivia in the form of causticised crystal nuggets.
Textured finished: Any finish other than high polish; includes Florentine, bark, satin, hammered, woven, nugget, granulated, bright-cut etc.
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Recent research undertaken by Sir Frank Reith of the Australian National University shows that microbes play an important role in forming gold deposits, transporting and precipitating gold to form grains and nuggets that collect in alluvial deposits.
Nodular - A habit displaying small, irregular lumps.
Nonmetallic - Having a luster not like metal.
Nugget - A rounded or irregular lump of a mineral, usually a native metal. (Gold, Platinum) ...
Some of the more regular of these are called "nuggets." Others are termed "spikes" because of their pointed shape, and still others are called "wing" pearls on account of their resemblance to a bird's wing.
Opal Auctions say their site is its own gem field stocked with valuable nuggets of information, samples, and spectacular opal videos.
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