Crystallized Gold with Quartz
Folsom Mining District, California
 
The gold specimen here displays thick angular gold crystals with lustrous flat faces. The gold is in matrix with white quartz which bring out its natural aesthetics. In some areas the gold has developed into a spinel twin wires with small modified octahedral crystals. The blocky crystal habits and lustrous crystal faces is a rare example for its locality.
 
13.20 x 8 x 6 mm 
0.68 gram
#112