NATIVE GOLD

Round Mountain Mine, Nye County, Nevada, USA, North America

Status

Sold

Size

1.2 x 1.2 x 0.6 cm (Thumbnail)

Description

A lovely thumbnail of Native Gold showing development of herringbone habit. The Native Gold specimen also shows strongly modified cubic crystals in staked growth form. The colour is a bright light metallic yellow. The net weight of the specimen is 1.7 grams.

Round Mountain Mine is a large open pit mine producing about 0.19 grams of gold per ton of rock. With the price of Gold at the present (August 2011) height of $1700 per oz the mine more than pays its way. The Gold is closely associated with volcanoclastic hydrothermal mineralisation which occurred approximately 500,000 years ago. Gold from the mine area has been produced since 1905.

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Owner

Kristalle and Crystal Classics