Price: 107.0 USD
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This 10.73-gram cabochon is a display-worthy slice of California gold history — rich arborescent native gold branching boldly through bright white quartz. Cut from rough mined at the McLaughlin Mine in the 1980s, it comes from the study samples the mine's geologist kept from his years working the deposit. The gold is elemental and natural, formed in a hydrothermal vein with its tree-like growth set against black mudstone in a flow-breccia zone where many minerals mingle. Some of this material glows bright yellow to green under longwave UV. Mineral: Native (elemental) gold in quartz with mudstoneLocality: McLaughlin Mine, California, USAColor: Bright gold in white quartz with black mudstoneFormation: Arborescent/dendritic gold in a hydrothermal vein deposit The exact 10.73-gram piece shown is the one you'll receive — completely one-of-a-kind.