A beautiful and unusual specimen of Crystallized Gold. Gold occurs as a myriad of tiny, dense, individual Gold crystals..packed together with occasional dodecahedral crystal terminations. Shows some secondary wear, and rounding. Gold shows very bright luster and an orangish-yellow color. Approximately 10% shale matrix remains, as well as a trace of Quartz. Interesting piece. Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp.

A small, crystallized Gold specimen on Quartz/Adularia matrix. Complex habit, with rows of abundant cubo-octahedral crystals.   Brilliant, luster, nice rich orangish color. Found within an obscure, old, historic, Nevada Gold camp.

Obscure

Intricate and exquisite crystallized Gold leaf specimen on Quartz/Adularia matrix. Complex habit, with leaf, cubo-octahedral crystals, and tabular plates. Brilliant, luster, nice rich orangish color.  Numerous Adularia and tiny Quartz crystals present.  Found within an obscure, old, historic, Nevada Gold camp.

FIRE CREEK!!

A curious crystallized Gold specimen from the now closed Fire Creek mine, Lander Co. NV.  Small .5 mm slab showing fantastic dendritic Gold crystal growth.  This piece illustrates the relationship of the Quartz vein matrix in contact with Basalt on one side and Calcite on the other side.  This mine is one of the few recent Gold mines in Nevada that mined visible Gold (VG).  Most Nevada Gold mines are mining micron Gold, only recovered using Cyanide leaching technology. A Specific Gravity determination yielded 3.4 Grams Gold

Lovely specimen of Gold from the Round Mountain mine. This small specimen exhibits brilliant luster and a pale champagne  gold color due to the natural alloy of 70% Au, and 30% Ag. The specimen is composed of moderately  developed Gold crystals. Modified octahedrons, cubes, and cubooctahedral crystals are moderately exhibited. Very flashy.

 Crystalline Gold intimately associated with Arsenopyrite in Quartz from the Black Diamond mine  in Plumas Co. CA.  The Gold occurs as thin leaves and blades, and as crystal replacements of the actual Arsenopyrite. Gold shows brilliant luster and a rich buttery-yellow color.

Beautiful

 This is a specimen of crystalline Gold intimately associated with Arsenopyrite in Quartz from the Black Diamond mine  in Plumas Co. CA.  The Gold occurs as thin leaves and blades, and as crystal replacements of the actual Arsenopyrite. Gold shows brilliant luster and a rich buttery-yellow color.

UNIQUE  This is a specimen of Arsenopyrite with crystalline Gold in Quartz from the Black Diamond mine  in Plumas Co. CA.  The Gold occurs as thin leaves and blades, and as crystal replacements of the actual Arsenopyrite. Gold shows brilliant luster and a rich buttery-yellow color. A very interesting piece.

Round Mountain Leaf Gold.  Beautiful specimen of a mass of compressed Gold leaves, and weakly formed cuboctahedral crystals. Brilliant, vibrant luster and a buttery-yellow color.  Minor trigon development on a few leaves. Shows a few % of white Quartz and Albite feldspar.   Weighs .56 ounce.

Crystalline Gold in crystallized Quartz matrix.  Small piece, brightly lustered, with a orangish-yellow color. Gold occurs as moderately dendritic ribbons, and plates, and as fracture fillings in the Quartz matrix showing many tiny euhedral Quartz crystals.

DOGTOWN !!!  An interesting, crystalline Gold specimen from an obscure, mine in the Coulterville, CA area.  A unique specimen of Californian Gold.  Gold occurs within a 1 cm. Quartz vein in a Schistose rock.  Orangish-yellow colored, brightly lustered Gold with minor Hematite staining.  Gold shows fine, crystalline texture, intimately shot through the fractured Quartz.  A specific gravity determination shows 40 grains Gold.

Wonderful Crystalline 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.  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.

Gold shows bright, reflective luster, and an orangish-yellow color. Crystalline texture. There is approximately 10% Quartz matrix. Also trace of Telluride minerals.

Weighs .52 oz.

Arizona Gold!!!  A beautiful 1/3 ounce specimen of crystalline Gold from the South Hualapai Mountains. Gold exhibits brilliant luster, and a rich buttery-yellow color. Approximately 10% original Quartz matrix remains. Weighs .34 ounces.

CALICO GOLD!!  Beautiful crystalline Gold in a Quartz-Limonite bearing vein from Arizona.  This specimen comes from an unknown Mining District, and is a new discovery. The piece has been cut with a diamond saw, producing a slab that has been polished on one side.  The Gold exhibits brilliant luster, and a rich, deep buttery-yellow color.  The Gold occurs as irregular,  jagged patches interspersed within the calico colored vein material. Total weight is 42.5  Grams. A specific gravity determination indicates 12.08 Grams Gold.

CALICO GOLD!!  Beautiful crystalline Gold in a Quartz-Limonite bearing vein from Arizona.  This specimen comes from an unknown Mining District, and is a new discovery. The piece has been cut with a diamond saw, producing a slab that has been polished on one side.  The Gold exhibits brilliant luster, and a rich, deep buttery-yellow color.  The Gold occurs as irregular,  jagged patches interspersed within the calico colored vein material. Total weight is 37.6 Grams. A specific gravity determination indicates 3.74 Grams Gold.

Interesting crystalline specimen from the Seven Troughs Mining District. Gold occurs as disseminated, deep, bronze-tinted blades, leaves, ribbons, and blebs. Matrix is a  fine-grained quartz. Found using a Goldbug2.

Small specimen of crystalline, leaf Gold in Quartz matrix. This is a small veinlett. Gold occurs as leaves, flakes, and ribbons. Gold is very brite and reflective and exhibits a nice silvery-yellow color as well as some showing a bronze color. There is a slight suggestion of dendritic crystalline growth.

A splendid specimen from the famous Eagles Nest mine, Michigan Bluff Mining District, in Placer Co. California. The small piece shows brilliant luster, buttery-yellow hue, crystalline, metallic native gold shot through translucent snow-white, milky quartz.

CALIFORNIA MOTHER LODE GOLD!!!  An intersting, small, crystalline Gold specimen from an obscure, mining claim in the Mariposa Mining District.  A unique specimen of Californian Gold.  Lemoney-yellow colored, brightly lustered Gold hosted by vuggy white Quartz.  A nice sound specimen. These specimens are very difficult to obtain as these old mines and prospects have been closed before the 1940s.

Crystalline Gold leaf in white Quartz. Bright, full luster, great lemmony-yellow color. Gold occurs as thin leaves and blades in Quartz, probably growing around the Quartz crystals.  Found in an old, historic, Nevada Gold camp using a metal detector.

Specimen Gold.  A nugget-like specimen of thick leaf Gold that was reportedly found in an old mine dump. Gold shows brite luster, and a pale, champagne gold color. Few % Quartz, and country rock matrix remains. This piece probably recovered in the placer below the outcrop. Found using a metal detector.