Description
An excellent small platinum nugget from Salmon River, Alaska. From the Pete Richards Collection, #752 – he acquired it in in July of 1982 from Ed Berdusko in Wawa, Ontario. It has an interesting history – it was dredged in 1945 by Good News Bay Mining Co. in an operation north of the Bering Sea on which Mr. Berdusko was working at the time. It weighs 0.26 grams. Very cool!
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