Gold Crystals on matrix - Height: 5 cm - Width: 3 cm- 30 g

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Antonio Rapisarda
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Holds a master’s in chemistry with 25 years’ experience in minerals consulting.

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Description from the seller

A really attractive piece of crystalline/crystallized "spongy" gold in quartz from the famous and historic Grass Valley district in California. I’m not sure this piece comes from the 16-to-1 mine, so I’ll just leave it as Grass Valley. This is older material, dating to the early 1980s, and it features conspicuous shiny metallic veining of attractive native gold mixed into a quartz matrix with minor sulfides (sphalerite or tetrahedrite?) or perhaps hessite. It also has some heft, so one can tell there’s more gold than what’s visible on the surface.

Seller's Story

Professional dealer of collectible minerals and collectible objects of various kinds.
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A really attractive piece of crystalline/crystallized "spongy" gold in quartz from the famous and historic Grass Valley district in California. I’m not sure this piece comes from the 16-to-1 mine, so I’ll just leave it as Grass Valley. This is older material, dating to the early 1980s, and it features conspicuous shiny metallic veining of attractive native gold mixed into a quartz matrix with minor sulfides (sphalerite or tetrahedrite?) or perhaps hessite. It also has some heft, so one can tell there’s more gold than what’s visible on the surface.

Seller's Story

Professional dealer of collectible minerals and collectible objects of various kinds.
Translated by Google Translate

Details

Main Mineral
Gold
Mineral Form
Crystals on matrix
Weight
30 g
Origin (Region/ City)
Grass Valley, California
Country of Origin
United States
Height
5 cm
Width
3 cm
Depth
2 cm
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Objects sold
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