Gold on Quartz

Item Description

It is hard to find Gold specimens from this lesser known mine in Northern California, and I would say that matrix specimens are even less common in my experience. 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 showy, and certainly a worthwhile pick up for a native elements collector, a California minerals collector or somebody who collects thumbnails.