Gold on Quartz

Item Description

In my experience, it's rather difficult to find any Gold specimens from this lesser known mine in Northern California. I can take it step further to say that matrix specimens are even rarer. This attractive thumbnail sized piece features brilliant, bright golden color, metallic, "leaves" and flattened crystals of Gold sitting atop white Quartz matrix. We have photographed the piece with a Canon MP-E 65 mm macro lens to better illustrate the quality. Up close you can see the brilliant, metallic, leaf-like quality of the Gold, but there are also distinct (yet compressed) crystal faces as well. Good quality, and although it's a smaller piece, it's a worthwhile pick up for a native elements collector, a California minerals collector or somebody who collects thumbnails.