Gold

 

Origin: Verespatak, Romenia

Picture height: 15 mm

Sample owner: W.R. Moorer

 

 

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Origin: Hollinger mine, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 9 mm crystal with smaller pieces

 

  

Origin: Hollinger mine, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 6 x 6x 3 cm, 7 mm gold crystal

 

    

Gold and sphalerite vein in quartz

Origin: #1 vein, 1913-Hollinger mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 2 x 2 x1.5 cm

 

  

Gold in cosalite

Origin: McElroy township, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 5 x 3 x 3 cm, gold to 1 mm

 

  

Nuggets  from placer

Origin: North Rapid Creek, near Mystic, Pennington Co., South Dakota, USA

Sample size: both 5 mm

 

  

 

  

 

Origin: East Mountains near Winnemucca, Nevada, United States

Sample size: matted wire gold 8 mm across (top left), matted wire gold to 1.2 cm across (top right), dendritic crystals to 1.5 cm overall (2nd row left), wire gold in quartz matrix 1 cm across (2nd row right), crystal group to 1.3 cm (bottom)

 

  

Gold (roasted)

Origin: Ajax mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado, United States

Samples size: 5 x 3 x 1 cm

 

  

Origin: Papua New Guinea

Sample size: 1.5 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm

 

  

Origin: North Fork Rapid Creek, Pennington Co., South Dakota, United States

Sample size: 4 x 4 x 1 mm (left), 4 x 3 x 1 mm (right)

 

  

 

  

Spongy micro gold crystalline masses to about 1 mm in siliceous siltstone, quartz matrix. Collected by Tom himself while employed at this mine.

Origin: Santa Gertrudis mine, Sonora, Mexico

Sample size: 5.5 x 3 x 2 cm (top), 5 x 4 x 2.5 cm (bottom)

 

  

Leaf gold to 3 mm with quartz fracture

Origin: Empire mine, Nevada Co., California, United States

Sample size: 3.5 x 3 x 2 cm

 

  

  

This specimen has at least 13 visible 1 mm gold flakes within chlorite matrix. Very important, most productive gold mine in the United States. This is specimen was collected in 1931.

Origin: Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., South Dakota, United States

Sample size: 10.5 x 6 x 3 cm

Photo courtesy of: 

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Gold on quartz

Origin: Pamour Porcupine mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 18 x 8 x 8 mm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  

 

Origin: Breckenridge, Colorado, U.S.A.

Ex. M. Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.8 x 0.2 x 0.2 cm (top), 2.6 x 0.2 x 0.1 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Michigan-Bluff district, Placer Co., California, U.S.A.

Ex. M. Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.6 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm

 

  

  

Origin: Bohemia District, Oregon, U.S.A.

Ex. M. Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.6 x 0.25 x 0.25 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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