Gold

  
  
Gold on quartz
Origin: Eagle's Nest Mine, Placer County, California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 10.5 x 10 x 3.25 cm
 
  
Gold on quartz
Origin: Mariposa County, California, U.S.A.
Sample size: 2.5 x 2.2 x 2 cm
 
  
Gold in quartz
Origin: California, U.S.A.
Ex. Andrew Carnegie collection (1835-1919)
Sample size: 12.2 x 6.9 x 6.6 cm
 
  
Gold variety Electrum
Origin: Engineer Mine, near Altin, BC, Canada
Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
 
Origin: Castell Carn Dochan, Llanuwchilyn, Gwynedd (Merionethshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 0.6 mm crystalline ball of gold, associated with quartz and galena (top left), 1 mm hackly mass of gold on quartz (top right), An extremely rare 0.25 mm crystal of gold in a quartz cavity (bottom)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
Origin: Sigma/Lamaque Mine, Val D'Or, Quebec, Canada
Ex. Ed Rosenzweig coll.
Sample size: 4.1 x 2.0 x 1.8 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

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