Gold

  

  

Gold with octahedral crystals

Origin: Shaw Mine, Tuolomne County, California, U.S.A.
ex. F JOHN BARLOW Collection

Sample size: 4 x 1.6 x 0.75 cm

 

  

  

 

  

  

Origin: Km 88 District, West of Santa Elena, La Gran Sabana, Venezuela
ex. F JOHN BARLOW Collection

Sample size: 1.9 x 1.2 x 1 cm (top/2nd row), 2.2 x 1.6 x 0.7 cm (3rd/bottom row)

 

This gold fish-hook, made from Columbian gold, was said in the old collection catalogue for Lawrence University to have passed from the Chibcha Indians circa 1540, to Jack Baragwanath/Leech, and hence to Lawrence. Barlow obtained it directly from Lawrence University in June of 1979.

Origin: Columbia
ex. F JOHN BARLOW Collection

Sample size: approx. 2 cm tall

 

  

  

Gold on quartz

Origin: Timmons, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm

 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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Origin: Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, Southwest U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.5 x 1.2 x 0.2 cm (top/2nd row), 2.7 x 1 x 0.6 cm (3rd/bottom row)

 

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