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Melonite & Native Gold

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Melonite & Native Gold

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Description
Locality: 
Cresson Mine, Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.1 × 0.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with exceptional bladed crystals of melonite on quartz with pyrite. The melonite crystals have tiny crystals of native gold adhering to them. Very old material that is very seldom seen in the quality. There are three perfect crystals on the matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Melonite

Formula: 
NiTe2
Strunz: 
2.EA.20
Hardness: 
1.0 - 1.5
Type Locality: 
Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill District (Melones District), Mother Lode Belt, Calaveras Co., California, USA

Gold

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

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