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Archive Home > 2013 > January > 18 > Oregon’s biggest gold nugget gets new, safer display case

Oregon’s biggest gold nugget gets new, safer display case

By Jayson Jacoby / The Bulletin
January 18, 2013

BAKER CITY — Zella Sly is holding a stone that looks perfect for propping open a door that’s out of plumb.

Or you could use it to buy a new Ferrari.

This is, suffice it to say, not an ordinary rock. To be geologically precise, it’s not even a rock at all. It’s a chunk of nearly pure gold.....

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