Gold nuggets

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Native gold

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Uses
Ore of gold Smelting electrum Masonry Stone crafting Construction
Location
Igneous intrusive layers Igneous extrusive layers Soil Found as veins
Properties
Material value 30
Wikipedia article

Gold nuggets, mined from Native gold, can be smelted directly into gold or combined with an ore of silver to create electrum. Mining it still leaves a valuable gold floor.

It is possible to make Furniture, Crafts or Mechanisms with Gold nuggets if it's enabled in the z-status stone menu, resulting in quite valuable items, good for export early in the game. It's much easier if you lock in the craftsdwarf with the nuggets. Forbidding the other stones doesn't seem to work well.

It is found as veins in soil and in both igneous intrusive and igneous extrusive layers.

Despite the high value of gold, creating electrum with it will result in a net profit if the silver ore used is galena or tetrahedrite. Using silver nuggets or horn silver for the process, however, results in neither a gain nor a loss of overall value.

Smelting

Gold nuggets are used to create two types of metal bars at a smelter:

• Gold bars
• Electrum bars - with silver nuggets, horn silver, galena, or tetrahedrite

Stone
Sedimentary	Sandstone • Siltstone • Mudstone • Shale • Claystone • Rock salt • Limestone • Conglomerate • Dolomite • Flint • Chert • Chalk
Igneous I.	Granite • Diorite • Gabbro
Igneous E.	Rhyolite • Basalt • Andesite • Felsite • Obsidian
Metamorphic	Quartzite • Slate • Phyllite • Schist • Gneiss • Marble
Unique	Bauxite • Lignite • Bituminous coal • Graphite • Kimberlite
Ore	Bismuthinite • Cassiterite • Copper nuggets • Galena • Garnierite • Gold nuggets • Hematite • Horn silver • Limonite • Magnetite • Malachite • Native aluminum • Platinum nuggets • Raw adamantine • Silver nuggets • Sphalerite • Tetrahedrite