RE:RE:WATERMELON SEED is KEY...Sorry Tx I have to disagree with you on this as well. The original gold attracted to the carbon matrix of the microorganism caused the watermelon shapes. There were areas of bacterial SUPERCOLONY where there was a clustering effect of the microbes. If you look at life in general...ALL living things especially microbes that was covering the ancient sea, you will see that there were areas of intense clustering of CYANOBACTERIA THROUGHOUT THE SEA BED, these bacteria supercities probably concentrated the gold better than other areas and most likely these were oval clusters that yielded the shape of these nuggets in such a fashion. NOW I agree that metals can't be shaped in nature, that is COMMON sense, but THIS is the ONLY EXCEPTION that I can see where this is NOT A FALLACY...