Alaska Gold 'N' Gems is your first and last stop to find hand crafted and original designs of fine jewelry from Fairbanks Alaska. Natural gold nuggets are purchased from local miners from all over the interior of Alaska. Then we take those Gold Nuggets (which range from 22 to 23 Karat Gold) and use them in their natural state to make unique and original Gold Nugget Jewelry. Alaskan Gold Nuggets have been used for jewelry for over a century. One mention of this was when Robert Service (a well known poet who wrote about Alaska) was known to use large Gold Nuggets for buttons on his fur coat back in the early 1800's. The total weight of these Nuggets were approximately 10 ounces!! And would be valued today at about $10,000.00. Natural Gold Nuggets command a higher price per ounce than pure gold due to the fact that they are found in very few places in the world. only .3% of all of the gold mined in the world is in Nugget form. Alaska, California, Cananda, Australia, Russia and some parts of South America are currently known for thier production of gold nuggets.