Rich Crystalline gold specimen from Lander Co., Nevada. 66 grams net For Sale

Graphic Native Gold Specimen from Nevada!Red Top mine (Maysville mine), Hilltop District, Lander Co., Nevada, USA
This specimen features a complex mess of dendritic and platy gold crystals.The gold is well-formed, and the sheets of gold have great structure to them; you could spend a lot of time with this one under a microscope.The host rock is a fine-grained silicic rock cut by veins of cryptocrystalline quartz, sawn on the bottom. The gold is mostly hosted in a strange hydrothermal, foamy, silicic rock, with small underlying quartz crystals. Two of the rock faces feature yellow and red staining suggesting the presence of sulfides and / or mercury.The scale cube in the photos is 1 cm.The specimen measures53 by 34 by 32 mm, or ~2.1 x ~1.3 x ~1.3 inches). It weighs 66 grams. It\'s hard for me to gauge the weight of crystalline gold, but there\'s good coverage on the front of the specimen and it displays well.
I don\'t have much other information about the locality, but the mine is listed inMindat.I purchased this specimen from its finder at the Denver Fall show in 2018. However, I had planned some mineral and meteorite hunting stops on the trip out and back, and somehow managed to find a decent gold specimen of my own on the return trip! So this one\'s free to go.Domestic shipping via USPS priority. International shipping is available, but will require FedEx or similar with delivery confirmation, at cost.Lately, has been automatically calculating and adding shipping costs for sales, at ~$8. I\'ve been going along with that, since a small flat-rate priority box is $7.20. I can look for cheaper shipping options if asked.

My name is Jason Utas and I have been collecting and hunting for meteorites since 1998. I am currently a graduate student studying geochemistry at UCLA.

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