Native Gold

A stunning arborescent display of dendritic and herringbone structured Native Gold from the Round Mountain mine in Nevada, USA.  The slightly orange, buttery-yellow bright metallic Native Gold abundantly covers the display face of this specimen.  The Native Gold has formed on a druse of colourless-white prismatic Quartz crystals with red-brown Goethite, covering a light grey country rock matrix. Many of the dendritic crystallised structures extend to over 2 cm long and criss-cross the surface piled one above another.  The arborescent crystals form herringbone, V-shaped and interlaced alternately inverted ‘V^V’-patterns and in many areas, superb cubic crystals and triangular-hopper crystals are in abundance.  An extraordinary and exquisite arborescent specimen of Native Gold from Round Mountain.