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Gold On Quartz

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Gold On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Eagles Nest Mine, Placer County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 0.7 cm
Description

Highly lustrous spinel-twinned and flattened octahedral gold crystals with a bit of quartz

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Gold

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White