Gold
Dom Bosco, Cachoeira do Campo, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
4.3 x 3.9 x 2.1 cm. Dom Bosco is famous for glamorous "Imperial" topaz crystals. Gold specimens from here are extremely rare. This perhaps unique specimen features bright native gold flakes, to 1 mm, scattered on all sides of the lustrous, dense, river-worn, limonite cobble. Rio Preto is a river and a district within Dom Bosco. Probably old ...
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