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Mineral Specimens with Gold
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2.6 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm. An EXQUISITE, 3-DIMENSIONAL gold specimen from the famous Eagles Nest Mine. Beautifully burnished spinel-twins and flattened octahedrons comprise this branching, arborescent gold on quartz matrix "tree trunk." UNLIKE most Eagles Nest golds, which are 2-dimensional, this showy piece has a very desirable 3-dimensional, sculptural quality.
3.8 x 1.1 x 0.3 cm. An aesthetic, leaf-shaped leaf gold specimen from the recent finds at the Round Mountain Mine of Nevada. You can see the flattened octahedral gold crystals making on the leaves, especially on one side, on this beautifully burnished piece.
3.0 x 1.6 x 0.7 cm (largest). Two excellent toenail specimens of sculptural and bright microcrystalline, spinel-twinned and hackly gold with a bit of quartz from the famous Placerville area of California. "Hangtown" is probably appropriately named for those who tried to steal gold from the rightful owners and were caught. These pieces were mined in 1969.
5.1 x 2.1 x 1.3 cm. A beautifully sculptural and bright golden microcrystalline and spinel-twinned gold specimen from the 2006 find at the very famous Mockingbird Mine of California. The spearpoint spinel-twins at the termination add to the aesthetics of this very well-formed piece. 10 grams.
5.1 x 3.2 x 2.3 cm. A SUPERB and AESTHETIC Olinghouse wire gold specimen. A beautiful, thick, sparkling nest of tiny gold wires RICHLY covers matrix. The mine is now closed, with further specimen production unlikely. This is from collecting in the 1990s and was in the collection of author and collector Scott Kleine, who wrote the article on this find for Rocks & Minerals and on the trend for the Minerals of Nevada book.
4.0 x 3.2 x 1.2 cm. A beautifully sculptural and bright golden microcrystalline gold specimen from the 2006 find at the very famous Mockingbird Mine of California. The sharp octahedron spear-point at the termination adds to the aesthetics of this very well-formed piece, which has an anthropomorphic shape with two "arms." 16 grams.
1.1 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm. From the guy who brought these into the U.S. last year: "To my knowledge, there are only four places in the world where we find gold associated with palladium. They are the Roraima area in Venezuela, two localities in Brazil, and the Hopes Nose mine in the UK. On my recent trip to Venezuela, I was fortunate to buy a batch of super sharp crystals of palladium-rich gold. I do not know exactly how much palladium is contained in this material, as I only ran them on an SEM which gives qualitative, not quantitative data. This material is not new to the collecting world, but I have not previously seen such sharp crystals. They were placer mined by small time operators, and must have been found right at the source. They are so incredibly sharp that they do not look as though they moved at all in the stream. In fact, I would venture to guess that the crystals actually grew in situ in the stream gravels. The metals were probably complexed by humic acids and precipitated at some point in the stream where the chemistry changed. It would make a great Masters Thesis or PhD topic should any of you have interest. In fact, I might be coerced to help fund the research for some graduate student...." NOTE that this, like the others from this find, is a very small specimen, more noteworthy for its rarity and find sharp crystal form than size.
1.8 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm. Electrum is a rare natural amalgam of gold and silver (sometimes with trace amounts of copper and other minerals as well). This smooth, water-worn nugget is from Nevada. It weighs about 7.5 cts. Ex. Carl Davis Coll.
4.0 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm. A SHOWY gold ore specimen with bright, variable patina, microcrystalline gold RICHLY scattered on both sides of milky quartz matrix and nicely complimented with splendent, gray sulfides from an unknown mine near Ouray, Colorado. Excellent material.
5.8 x 4.1 x 2.9 cm. Bright, octahedral gold crystals on and in glassy milky quartz form a VERY RICH and showy gold ore specimen from the famous Grass Valley District of Nevada County, California. This is OLD-TIME material from the George Elling Collection.
1.5 x 0.6 x 0.2 cm. An aesthetic, arborescent thumbnail of beautifully burnished leaf gold from the famous Michigan Bluff District of California. Ex. Dick Jones Collection.
3.7 x 1.6 x 0.5 cm. An EXCELLENT, sculptural and bright microcrystalline and hackly gold with a bit of quartz from the famous Placerville area of California. The bit of coppery patina is a very nice accent. "Hangtown" is probably appropriately named for those who tried to steal gold from the rightful owners and were caught. These pieces were mined in 1969.
7.0 x 6.0 x 4.2 cm. A rich and showy gold ore specimen from Ouray, Colorado. Bright, microcrystalline gold is set on gray and milky quartz. The gold and quartz are sandwiched between two veins of splendent galena, making an excellent piece. Ex. George Elling Collection.
4.0 x 3.5 x 1.0 cm. A beautifully sculptural and bright golden microcrystalline gold specimen from the 2006 find at the very famous Mockingbird Mine of California. The sharp octahedron spear-point at the termination adds to the aesthetics of this very well-formed piece, which has an anthropomorphic shape with two "arms" and two "legs." 18 grams.
1.8 x 1.2 x 0.9 cm. A beautifully burnished and sculptural gold thumbnail from the famous Diltz Mine of Mariposa County, California. This cutie has three sharp, gold crystal forms! Feather-like spinel-twins, cubes and octahedrons. Uncommon to have all three in such sharpness. Ex Al McGuiness and Bob Byers Collections.
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