Cowboy, In one place in Australia, I can find two nuggets 12 feet apart and both have very different lustres. One dull, one bright. Both from different shoots in the lode I guess. I reckon the gold from north Queensland seems to be the ugliest out of all the Aust gold. That stuff JP and Jack Lange finds is mostly from here. When you drop gold in acid too, that seems to me to spoil them more. I have always regretted doing that, therefore I won't ever again. Cheers Curley.