Intricate and exquisite crystallized Gold. Small, but beautiful crystallized, dendritic Gold. A wonderful micromount. Brite luster, nice color.  Very scarce specimen. Comes from an obscure location

Crystallized Gold.  A lovely, small "tree" of modified Gold leaves, stacked upon one another with a trace of Quartz. Gold shows brilliant reflectivity and luster, and exhibits a pale-yellow color.

Intricate and exquisite crystallized Gold. Small, but beautiful crystallized, dendritic Gold. A wonderful micromount. Brite luster, nice color.  Very scarce specimen. Comes from an obscure location

A wonderful crystallized Gold specimen from the Rochester Mining District. Gold shows strong crystal growth , brite, vibrant luster, and a buttery-yellow color. 

Intricate and exquisite crystallized Gold. Small, but beautiful crystallized Gold. A wonderful micromount. Brite luster, nice color.  Gold occurs as a honey comb-like format due to the intimate intergrowth of Gold and Quartz crystals. Very scarce specimen.

A crystallized Gold leaf. Shows nice TRIGON crystal growth. Brilliant luster and lemmony-yellow color.

A small ..but splendid crystalline Gold  specimen. Gold exhibits a honey-comb like format, shows brite luster and a lemmony-yellow color. No matrix.

A small crystalline Gold  specimen. Gold exhibits a moss-like format, shows brite luster and a orange-yellow color. No matrix.

A smallnugget-like specimen from an obscure location. Gold is very britely lustered and shows an orangish-color. Has Stibnite crystal castmarks. Shows crystal development

Crystallized Gold from the Jumbo Mine. Gold shows an orange hue and has nice luster. Somewhat dendritic, in form.

A lovely, small crystalline Gold specimen from the Shoshone Range. Gold occurs as a honeycomb maze of blades and wire in-filling the original quartz crystal matrix. Small % quartz xtls. remain. Gold exhibits brilliant luster, and pale,,lemmony-yellow color.

An nice crystalline Gold specimen on Quartz matrix. Gold show spongy, mossy form with a faint dendritic crystal growth. Brite luster and a lemmony-yellow color.  Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp, using a Goldbug2 metal detector.

A small specimen of crystalline Gold in Quartz. Gold exhibits bright luster and an orangish color.

A small crystalline Gold in Quartz specimen . Gold shows brite luster and a brassy-yellow color.

A small crystallized Gold specimen from the Imlay Mining District.  Gold shows weakly developed crystal forms and has a brite luster, with buttery yellow color.

A small specimen of  Gold leaf on Quartz. Gold occurs as sparkling..brilliantly lustered leaves. Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp.

Lovely, crystalline Gold in snow white Quartz. Gold occurs as irregular, leaves, grains, and hackly blebs showing brilliant luster and a deep, orangy-yellow color.

A pretty, small, crystalline Gold specimen in Quartz. Gold exhibits brilliant luster and a lively buttery-yellow color. Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp.

A small specimen of crystalline Gold in Quartz. Gold exhibits bright luster and a pale, brassy color.

A small specimen of crystalline Gold in Quartz. Gold exhibits bright luster and a pale, brassy color.

A small specimen from the famous Carson Hill Mines, Calaveras County, California.  Lode Gold was discovered in 1850 where extremely rich Gold ore was blasted from near surface Quartz veins ..principally from the Morgan mine. The early miners then simply picked up the rich Gold fragments.  Open pit mining from the 1980s to 1991 attempted to mine the deposit by consolidating the various deposits. These early specimens contained rich Telluride minerals with the Gold- principally Hessite and Petzite. I believe these specimens contain Petzite a AU/AG Telluride mineral which resembles Galena. Later attempts were made, to  crush the waste dumps and market the material to the California Department of Highways(CALTRAN)  nugget traps were installed on the gravel sorting circuits and these specimens were  recovered as a result.

A nice specimen showing brite luster and a honey-yellow color. Rare trace of pseudo-cube of Petzite.

Brilliant luster, pale, lemmony-yellow colored, Honey comb-like Crystalline Gold in Quartz.

A small specimen of crystalline Gold in Quartz. Gold exhibits bright luster and a pale, brassy color.

A small specimen of crystallized Gold from the Seven Troughs mining district. Crystalline, leaf Gold in Quartz matrix. Gold occurs as a dense accumulation of leaves and flakes.  Gold is very brite and reflective and exhibits a nice brassy-yellow color. Technically this is a naturally occuring alloy of 60% Gold and 40% Silver called Electrum. Treated with Mineral Oil to show contrast with Gold and matrix. To remove soak in rubbing alchohol.  A specific gravity determination indicates 11.5 grains of Electrum. This specimen was purchased from an old collection.

Wonderful Specimen Gold from the famous Carson Hill Mines, Calaveras County, California.  Lode Gold was discovered in 1850 where extremely rich Gold ore was blasted from near surface Quartz veins ..principally from the Morgan mine. The early miners then simply picked up the rich Gold fragments.  Open pit mining from the 1980s to 1991 attempted to mine the deposit by consolidating the various deposits. These early specimens contained rich Telluride minerals with the Gold- principally Hessite and Petzite. I believe these specimens contain Petzite a AU/AG Telluride mineral which resembles Galena. Later attempts were made, to  crush the waste dumps and market the material to the California Department of Highways(CALTRAN)  nugget traps were installed on the gravel sorting circuits and these specimens were  recovered as a result.

Small, nugget-like specimen..shows brilliant luster and an orangish tinge. Has a few % pseudo-cubic crystal of Petzite, and Quartz/Feldspar.

A small specimen of crystalline Gold in a bed of Quartz crystals. Gold is brite and pale yellow. Found in an obscure location using a metal detector.

A nice crystalline Gold specimen showing brilliant luster, and a pale, lemmony-yellow color. Gold occurs as leaves and honey comb-like forms.

Wonderful Specimen Gold from the famous Carson Hill Mines, Calaveras County, California.  Lode Gold was discovered in 1850 where extremely rich Gold ore was blasted from near surface Quartz veins ..principally from the Morgan mine. The early miners then simply picked up the rich Gold fragments.  Open pit mining from the 1980s to 1991 attempted to mine the deposit by consolidating the various deposits. These early specimens contained rich Telluride minerals with the Gold- principally Hessite and Petzite. I believe these specimens contain Petzite a AU/AG Telluride mineral which resembles Galena. Later attempts were made, to  crush the waste dumps and market the material to the California Department of Highways(CALTRAN)  nugget traps were installed on the gravel sorting circuits and these specimens were  recovered as a result.

Nice small specimen..shows a velvety luster and a lemony-yellow color. Has a trace of Quartz.

Crystalline Gold in white Quartz with Sphalerite. Gold is irregular and hackly , shows brilliant luster and a lemmony-yellow color. Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp.

An exqusite dendritic Gold specmen on hematite. Gold show spongy, mossy form with a faint dendritic crystal growth. Brite luster and an orangish color.  Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp, using a Goldbug2 metal detector.

A small crystalline Gold specimen on brecciated Quartz. Gold show a spongy, mossy form with  brite luster and a lemmony-yellow color.  Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp, using a Goldbug2 metal detector.

Crystalline Gold in Quartz.  Small specimen with brite, orangish colored Gold.

A small specimen of crystalline Gold in Quartz. Gold shows brilliant luster and a pale, lemmony-yellow color. Gold appears semi-crystallized.