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Native Gold

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Locality: 
Capps Hill Mine, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.8 × 2.4 × 1.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a very rare native gold sample from one of the most productive gold mines in the history of my home state, from the famous '49er' period of the mid 1800s. I was lucky enough to find a few good samples on a lucky dump find years ago. This is a neat piece of US gold mining history. The specimen is very rich for the mine and actually hosts some rough cubic crystals among the sheets of gold, all on quartz crystals. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

Formula: 
Au
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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