Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA

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Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA Yellow gold running through white quartz matrix. Overall size of mineral specimen: 9x8x6 mm. Size of individual crystals: .5 mm.
© 2003 John H. Betts	Photo ID: 11039 View Count: 423
Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA A beautiful and lustrous leaf gold with thick leafy crysatls that are unusually sturdy: the attractive balance of this specimen make this a truly fine thumbnail. VERY IMPRESSIVE in person 3.3 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 37855 View Count: 394
Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA 5.8 x 4.1 x 2.9 cm. Bright, octahedral gold crystals on and in glassy milky quartz form a VERY RICH and showy gold ore specimen from the famous Grass Valley District of Nevada County, California. This is OLD-TIME material from the George Elling Collection.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 130327 View Count: 110
Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA 23.5 x 15.2 x 12.8 cm. This impressive large gold specimen has been on display in the Academy for ages, and was one of three golds in the hall showcase that featured gemstones, and arced up from the ground floor to the dinosaur hall. It is an old specimen with brilliant lustre and sharp crystallization characteristic of old mines of the Grass ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 164059 View Count: 109
Gold : Au, Quartz : SiO₂
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA 1.2 x 0.6 x 0.6 cm. Bright gold, wrapped around a bit of quartz, from the old sites in Grass Valley in California. I did not weigh it because it is about equally divided between quartz and gold - but from the display side, since the quartz is completely wrapped by the gold, it appears to be almost all gold (a few grams).
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 170718 View Count: 82
Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA 1.3 x 1.0 x 0.3 cm. An uncommonly fine and sculptural gold thumbnail from the famous Grass Valley area of California’s Mother Lode. This aesthetic specimen consists of three, sharp, flattened, octahedral gold crystals beautifully perched atop a slightly folded gold leaf. This excellent piece has a bright, rich yellow-gold patina that the photo ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 214882 View Count: 53
Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA 1.6 x 0.8 x 0.4 cm. An aesthetic and sculptural, arborescent thumbnail cluster of richly burnished, golden-yellow gold crystals highlighted by fine, hoppered, octahedral gold crystals. The crowning octahedron at the top, with a mirror face, is 6 mm. This is old-time material from Grass Valley, California.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 230608 View Count: 39
Gold : Au, Quartz : SiO₂
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA 1.0 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm. A fine thumbnail of a arborescent or antler-like cluster of richly burnished, golden-yellow gold aesthetically attached to a transparent quartz crystal shard. This is old-time material from Grass Valley, California. The piece is in a magnifying perky box.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 223867 View Count: 36
Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA 1.3 x 1.3 x 0.5 cm. An aesthetic and sculptural, arborescent thumbnail cluster of richly burnished, golden-yellow gold crystals highlighted by hoppered or flattened octahedral gold crystals. This is old-time material from Grass Valley, California. Ex. Mullane Collection.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 236590 View Count: 31
Gold : Au
	Grass Valley, Nevada City District (Grass Valley District), Nevada Co., California, USA Gold. Specimen is from the collection of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. USA #84445. The scale at the bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
	Photo ID: 241663 View Count: 26
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