Gold (beautifully crystallized)

Item Description

From an old discovery at the Piolho Claim in far northwestern Brazil, here we have a beautifully crystallized thumbnail specimen of Native Gold. The piece looks beautiful up close wth sharp dodecahedral faces, that are slightly compressed and even slightly skeletal in areas. The piece has a gorgeous rich metallic golden color. I can describe the form as somewhat aborescent, and is actually crytallized on both sides. I spent a good deal of time looking at this piece with a loupe, and we photographed it with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality. The piece is small, weighing in at 0.38 grams, but it's a fine specimen of crystallized gold from a discovery in the 1970s that yielded a small number of piece which we recently acquired from an old East Coast collection.