Gold Nugget & Black Jade Cufflinks

These gold nugget & black jade cufflinks are a unique set to add to your collection. The Alaskan natural gold nuggets & jade are mounted on a 13.5mm X 15.5mm 14k gold base with 14k gold filled wingback findings. The cufflinks come in a nice box. They show up ready to give to someone special, even if that special someone is you. 

On any given day, local gold miners will come into 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. Miners extract these natural pieces of “placer gold” 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 constitute only 2% of all found gold. These nuggets themselves will vary in purity from about 75% to 95% pure gold, or 18k-22k. Other minerals, such as silver and platinum, can sometimes mix in with these completely natural pieces.

Big machines crush rock in “hard rock mining,” separating small particles of gold, which constitutes most of the gold mined in the world. Large corporations mostly undertake this process as it requires a significant amount of startup money. The average person can be a gold miner by utilizing a shovel and gold pan for placer mining. In fact, these are the miners that we love to buy from, hardworking men and women that find gold using basic tools.