Gold Crystal on Matrix
Placer County, California
The gold crystal is a great representation of naturally forming gold from this locality. The gold crystals formed an intricate cluster of short branches overlapping and intersecting crystals. Some of the surfaces on the gold are flat with lustrous plates on its tips. Its color is a worm saturated yellow evenly distributed all round. The reverse side is a small white quartz matrix held together by the native gold which surrounding the white limonite matrix. Gold from this locality is rare and not often available to mineral collectors.
10 x 8 x 3 mm 
0.39 gram