These nugget heart earrings features hand placed nuggets set into a 14k frame. The total weight for both earrings together is 1.6 grams and they are 6 mm tall and are 8 mm wide.

On any given day, local gold miners will come in to our shop throughout the year with the gold nuggets they mined that season. We look through their stash and choose the very best nuggets to make into pendants. These are natural pieces of placer gold? which means they are mined from the rivers and streams around Alaska. Otherwise known as the Klondike. Finding gold nuggets in their natural state is very rare. In fact, gold nuggets make up only 2% of all gold that is found. These nuggets themselves will vary in purity from about 75% to 95% pure gold, or 18k-22k. Due to the fact that these pieces are completely natural, other minerals can sometimes be mixed in such as silver and platinum.

Most of the gold mined in the world is from “hard rock mining” where rock is crushed using big machines and small particles of gold are separated out. This is the most cost-efficient way to extract the gold. The problem with this process is that it destroys these beautiful pieces of art. This means if stores like us stop buying this type of gold, this art will eventually be forgotten.

We have one of the largest selections of gold nugget pendants in Alaska. Look through our collection today and find one that speaks to you!