Few but ripe.
<a href="/photo-10883.html"><h1>Native Gold, Quartz, Chlorite Group</h1><h2>Pamour #1 Mine, Whitney Township, Timmins, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada</h2><p>This 4x6 cm specimen was formerly in the Ian Nicklin Collection, ex Rod Tyson and Pamour Mines specimen recovery program (1984-6). That material all came from Stope 1462. Mark Mauthner Photo, RWMW collection</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Mark Mauthner</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Quartz, Chlorite Group

Pamour #1 Mine, Whitney Township, Timmins, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada

<a href="/photo-812422.html"><h1>Native Gold, Quartz, Limonite</h1><h2>Cedar Creek, Likely, Cariboo Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada</h2><p>White quartz is barely visible and the brown limonite requires a microscope to find. This is a coarsely crystallised specimen from a placer deposit right on top of a lode deposit as there is little ware on the piece. At the locality the gold ranges from worn nuggets to pristine xls. ex Rob Woodside collection. Arkenstone photo</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Arkenstone</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Quartz, Limonite

Cedar Creek, Likely, Cariboo Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

<a href="/photo-796537.html"><h1>Native Gold, Quartz</h1><h2>Duketon Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia</h2><p>6.1 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm. This rare locality piece features dramatic, thick, pointedly elongated gold crystals mixed with leafy gold, on quartz matrix. Acquired from one of the well known gold dealers at Quartzite in the late 1990s. Weighs 86 grams, or nearly 3 ounces. (Arkenstone photo, Woodside Collection)</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky &amp; irocks.com</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Quartz

Duketon Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia

<a href="/photo-844785.html"><h1>Native Gold</h1><h2>Serra do Caldeirão claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil</h2><p>A skeletal 6 cm frond of gold xls. Photo David Woodside, Rob Woodside Collection</p><p class="copyright">&copy; David Woodside</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold

Serra do CaldeirÃĢo claims, Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil

<a href="/photo-788627.html"><h1>Native Gold, Galena, Sphalerite, Quartz</h1><h2>Botești, Zlatna, Alba County, Romania</h2><p>Gold leaves with trigons in a vug surrounded by grey galena with small black sphalerite xls and white quartz xls. This is probably an old specimen dating from the time the Hessites came out in the late 19th and early 20th century but sadly the provenance is lost. (Woodside Collection, Crystal Classics Photo)</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Crystal Classics</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Galena, Sphalerite, Quartz

Botești, Zlatna, Alba County, Romania

<a href="/photo-795371.html"><h1>Native Gold, Quartz, Pyrite, Baryte, Sphalerite</h1><h2>Roşia Montană, Roșia Montană, Alba County, Romania</h2><p>Thin fragile Gold leaves and wires on Quartz with tiny pyrites, black to yellow sphalerites, and tiny white baryte blades with beige hyalite opal. Kevin Ward Photo, Rob Woodside collection</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Kevin Ward</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Quartz, Pyrite, Baryte, Sphalerite

Roşia Montană, Roșia Montană, Alba County, Romania

<a href="/photo-791450.html"><h1>Native Gold, Quartz, Opal-A (Var: Opal-AN), Sphalerite, Kaolinite</h1><h2>Trestia Mine, Trestia, Băița, Hunedoara County, Romania</h2><p>Gold leaf dotted with trigons. Clear quartz, black sphalerite, brown opal and white pocket clay on back of specimen The specimen has been attributed to Rosia Montana (Verespatak) as an after thought to the original locality &quot;Siebenbürgen&quot; (Translyvania). These large thick leaves with trigons, rather than octahedral xls, and labelled only ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Rob Lavinsky</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Quartz, Opal-A (Var: Opal-AN), Sphalerite, Kaolinite

Trestia Mine, Trestia, Băița, Hunedoara County, Romania

<a href="/photo-695996.html"><h1>Native Gold, Calcite, Limonite, Shale</h1><h2>Wire Patch Mine, Farncomb Hill, French Gulch, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA</h2><p>Typical Wire patch gold wires with microscopic calcite shards in limonite on altered shale. This has been a meticulously prepared specimen with the limonite picked off the wire groups. The shale was quite forgiving and the piece sits up perfectly. Keith Procter Photo, Rob Woodside collection</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Calcite, Limonite, Shale

Wire Patch Mine, Farncomb Hill, French Gulch, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA

<a href="/photo-788953.html"><h1>Native Gold, Laumontite, Calcite, Galena, Chalcopyrite</h1><h2>Olinghouse Mining District, Pah Rah Range, Washoe County, Nevada, USA</h2><p>This specimen was originally found as electrum wires in a decayed white laumontite and calcite nodule. It was then put in HCl to etch out the wires. On neutalizing a green copper bloom developed, probably from the microscopic chacopyrite and tetrahedrite fragments. The galena is also microscopic. The base was then stabilized with paleobond glue. ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; John Veevaert</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Laumontite, Calcite, Galena, Chalcopyrite

Olinghouse Mining District, Pah Rah Range, Washoe County, Nevada, USA

<a href="/photo-896259.html"><h1>Native Gold, Quartz</h1><h2>Eagle&#039;s Nest Mine, Sage Hill, Michigan Bluff Mining District, Placer County, California, USA</h2><p>Highly lustrous, coarse, sharp xls growing out of and holding together a quartz matrix. Jeff Scovil Photo, Rob Woodside Collection.</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Scovil</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Quartz

Eagle's Nest Mine, Sage Hill, Michigan Bluff Mining District, Placer County, California, USA

<a href="/photo-727155.html"><h1>Native Gold, Native Gold (Var: Electrum), Quartz</h1><h2>Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA</h2><p>This epithermal vein hosts tiny cubes in parallel growth on a herring bone substrate with a surface enrichment of very pure gold. The cubes are indicative of electrum and low Ag gold is indicated by octahedra. Above the water table the electrum has the silver leached from the surface giving the rich buttery gold colour. The leaching has left the ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Ray Hill</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Native Gold (Var: Electrum), Quartz

Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA

<a href="/photo-588433.html"><h1>Native Gold, Quartz, Clay</h1><h2>Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA</h2><p>The good colour and presence of mm sized well formed octos rather than cubes suggest this is gold and not electrum. The high lustre and colour suggest that this piece did not suffer any surface enrichment and came from below the water table. The matrix is clear quartz and white pocket clay. (Woodside collection. Photo by Joe Budd).</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Joe Budd</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Quartz, Clay

Round Mountain Mine, Round Mountain, Round Mountain Mining District, Toquima Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA

<a href="/photo-710949.html"><h1>Native Gold, Calcite</h1><h2>Hope&#039;s Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England, UK</h2><p>Fine dendrites of brownish palladian Gold leached from limestone and calcite. John Veevaert photo, RWMW collection</p><p class="copyright">&copy; John Veevaert</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Calcite

Hope's Nose, Torquay, Torbay, Devon, England, UK

<a href="/photo-642352.html"><h1>Native Gold</h1><h2>Ace Of Diamonds Mine, Liberty, Swauk Mining District, Kittitas County, Washington, USA</h2><p>Very fragile. Found in sand. Julian Campbell analysed a xl and got 73.14% Au 26.13% Ag, so this is electrum as the colour indicates. This piece came from the estate of Ernest Butler who supplied John Barlow with all the Ace of Diamonds specimens figured in the Barlow book. A collector once told me that he didn&#039;t care what specimen had passed ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Bob Meyer</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold

Ace Of Diamonds Mine, Liberty, Swauk Mining District, Kittitas County, Washington, USA

<a href="/photo-696800.html"><h1>Native Gold, Petzite, Pyrite, Quartz</h1><h2>Roşia Montană, Roșia Montană, Alba County, Romania</h2><p>Gold dendrites on quartz with irridescent petzite and minor pyrite.</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Petzite, Pyrite, Quartz

Roşia Montană, Roșia Montană, Alba County, Romania

<a href="/photo-642867.html"><h1>Native Gold, Native Copper, Sphalerite, Opal, Quartz</h1><h2>Săcărâmb, Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania</h2><p>These single crystals, a few mm in size are about a big as single crystals from Romania get. They look cubic, suggesting electrum which frequently forms cubes. The copper is colouring the gold&#039;s surface. The quartz is white, sphalerite is black and the opal is beige. This is a classic Nagyag specimen with the Copper and Opal. Compare the ...</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Ray Hill</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Native Copper, Sphalerite, Opal, Quartz

SăcărÃĒmb, Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania

<a href="/photo-716765.html"><h1>Native Gold, Vandenbrandeite, Malachite</h1><h2>Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo</h2><p>A 1.3 cm bleb of gold along with a smaller one, both in darker green Vandenbrandeite with lighter green Malachite</p><p class="copyright">&copy; Kevin Downey</p><p class="clickhere">Click here to view photo page on mindat.org</p></a>

Native Gold, Vandenbrandeite, Malachite

Musonoi Mine, Kolwezi, Mutshatsha, Lualaba, DR Congo