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Gold in Quartz
- 16 to 1 Mine, Alleghany, Sierra Co., California
- Miniature, 3.7 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm
- Start Time: 09/10/2012 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 09/20/2012 6:38:11 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
An aesthetic and rich gold on quartz miniature from the original "16 to 1 Mine". Clusters and veinlets of bright, hackly, microcystalline to crystallized gold are nicely scattered on the front and one edge of the shard of milky quartz. The hoppered octahedron on one end of the veinlet is 5 mm. This cutie has two fine display views and was mined in the early 1990s. Rarely available from this old locality. 22 grams.