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EXTREMELY RARE MUSEUM QUALITY FOSSILISED BOAB NUT - its RARITY comes from the fact that the STEM is STILL ATTACHED TO THE NUT. (in the USA it is called a BAOBAB, but they are actually different species, and this is DEFINITELY an AUSTRALIAN BOAB NUT) It weighs 1.33 kgs or just under 3 lbs and measures approx 15 cms x 7 cms or 6 x 3 . The heavy weight proves that it is a fossil, and NOT just a dried Boab Nut. It was found on the OODNDATTA TRACK in the Northern Territory of Australia in an old dry salty river bed. Beside the nut was what appeared to be a huge petrified tree. We have contacted several Natural History Museums in Australia and they all agree that it is definitely a fossilised Boab Nut, and that it s age is approx 80 million years old. To find a fossilised plant item with it s stem still attached is EXTREMELY RARE as it would normally have fallen or rotted off over time. Normally Boab Nuts are hard and dry when they fall off the tree, and are often gathered by Australian Aborigines carve patterns on them. Pics 1 and 2 show both sides of the Boab with the stem. Pics 3 and 4 show closer details of the stem. Pics 5 and 6 show what appears to be a small area where the nut may have started to rot, and a smaller area where it s possible something like a beetle has bored into the nut when it was on the tree. This beetle or insect is probably still inside the nut. Pic 7 shows the bottom end of the nut. Pics 8 and 9 show the salt and dirt around the nut that came with it w ...

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	CLEAR AND TERMINATED QUARTZ CLUSTER FROM CHINA-4x166			9.99 AUD Fb: 38 (100.0%)	33m 41s~
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NATURAL AUSTRALIAN GOLD NUGGET 470 grams Victorian (ship 520.0 AUD)

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This beautiful nugget came from famous Victorian Golden Triangle AUSTRALIAN GOLD NUGGET 470 grams Victorian This beautiful nugget came from famous Victorian Golden Triangle. It has purity around 98% What are nuggets? Nuggets are large masses of gold found in soil and streambeds, known broadly as alluvial deposits. While nuggets have been found on many goldfields around the world, those from Victoria were particularly large and abundant. From the time of the first gold rush in the early 1850s, the discovery of a large nugget generated such excitement that news spread far and wide. Thousands of people from around the world migrated to Victoria, dreaming of making their fortunes on goldfields dripping, so they hoped, with nuggets. Ho w many nugget s were there? No one knows how many nuggets were found. During the late 1800s, the Mines Department compiled an official list of discoveries and also made models of some of the large nuggets. By the time the reporting system ceased in about 1910, 1300 nuggets over 20 ounces had been recorded. However, almost certainly many more nuggets were found than were recorded, as many discoverers avoided publicity for fear of being robbed. None of the large nuggets found during the gold rushes survived, as all were quickly melted down. Today, fossickers with metal detectors still find large nuggets – those that the original diggers missed – on the Victorian goldfields. How did nuggets form? While there are several theories for the or ...