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Mr. Birkmyre says: “The gold of this nugget, from the crucible assays, I found to be 98'C6 per cent of pure gold. It thus contains only 1-75th of alloy, composed chiefly of silver and iron.

The Gold Rush star showed off the gold nugget on social media, saying discoveries like this don’t happen often.