I think it's a nugget.
gold nuggets
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it was first mined by placer mining method of washing the dirt from around the small pieces of gold found in creeks.
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Mining for gold was very hard work. This was because gold usually came in very small pieces and was hard to extract from the rock it was imbedded in .
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