Does Anyone Else Here Collect Gold Nuggets Or Native Silver?

Ive been thinking of getting some native copper. I too like mineral samples...I was once gifted a whole load from Michigan. What kind of flourescent minerals are available?

I had an interest in minerals when I was younger, as well. I don't have any gold or silver, but do have a nice chunk of copper ore I found while fishing in Michigan's UP. It weighs about 10 lbs and is streaked with quartz, iron pyrite and another purplish brownish crystal that I haven't identified. I thought it might either be smoky quartz or garnet.

Native copper, copper balls, not as cold as brass ones and some copper ingots

copper mixed in with the slag and brick work inside the smelting furnace


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Called a half bred native silver on native copper

Thanks for all the great posts. I love good eye candy. @Jenger: Cool vid, you are lucky to have visited that place personally. I'd love to check it out someday.

When an Australian buys a metal detector, it is usually to go looking for gold nuggets.
Favourite areas to go hunting are in the 'golden triange' Bendigo Ballarat area in Victoria, or around the Bathurst Hill End Sofala area of New South Wales.
Reasonably pointless to go hunting for coins in Australia, except that a few could be found in the abandoned gold working areas of the 19th Century.

That is, unless you want to fit a magetometer to an aircraft, and go hunting for whole mineralised areas.
That'll cost you a bit!
Or perhaps use an anti submarine hunter - killer aircraft, such as a Lockheed PC3 Orion!
Problem with this: You won't find many submarines in the old worked out goldfields.

Wow Jenger, quite the nugg. Is that youRs? @silverhawk, collecting gold nuggets is a hobby to me, as is my coin collecting. I know this is the PM section and most buy PMs for investment purposes, I believe there is space for PM collecting hobbyists here too.

Love those metal detector finds.