An excellent and fabulously rich small cabinet specimen of Native Gold from Nevada, USA. Sheets of leaf Native Gold almost entirely cover a thin 6.5 x 5.0 cm plate of creamy white Quartz matrix. Many of the sheets attain approximately 2 cm in length forming a continuous coverage of Native Gold, with a texture of crisp golden dried autumn leaves. The lustre of the sheets varies from bright lustrous golden metallic to frosted buttery-yellow with a matt finish. Under magnification the leaf surfaces have minute crystal growth developments in the form of multiple arrays of equilateral triangles, it is quite spectacular when studied closely. This is a rich, large, highly displayable Native Gold from Nevada, and one packed with crystallographic interest. The only possible drawback is the lack of precise provenance, but for aesthetics you can't go far wrong.
