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Locality: 
Anna Vein, Bredisor, Brad, Hunedoara County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.7 × 2.5 cm
Weight: 
27.00gr
Description

A 1920s specimen from the Brad area (Golden Quadrangle) in Transsylvania featuring crystalline gold as sheet-like aggregates on quartz with dark sphalerite(?). This very interesting and quite rich specimen comes out of the Bredisor deposit (near the Musariu deposit) that belongs to the Ruda – Barza group which included the following galleries: Anna (426 m altitude); Drei Königs (Three Kings, 466 m altitude) and Zwölf – Apostel (12 Apostles, 496 m altitude); in Valea Morii mine, the Ferdinand gallery (304 m altitude); in Valea Arsului mine, the Franziska gallery; in Musariu mine, the Ludwig (Ludovic)
and Maria galleries. The Bredisor deposit was mined by the the”Ruda 12 Apostoli” Mining Association (Baron, M. (2012): THE CONTRIBUTION OF „RUDA 12 APOSTOLI” MINING
ASSOCIATION IN BRAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF
TRANSYLVANIAN GOLD MINING BETWEEN 1884 – 1921)

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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