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The specimen comes with an old label from the Mining and Metallurgical Laboratory of the Institute of Economical Mineralogy, Leningrad.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46538617159855,"sku":"CC2955","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC2955.png?v=1770137866"},{"product_id":"native-gold","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Rich leaf Native Gold are seen atop the specimen and cutting though the Calcite matrix. The leaves of Native Gold measure to 2cm by 1.2cm with a light metallic yellow colour. Close examination of the Native Gold shows the surface has micro-triangular growth patterns on it. A well formed translucent brown-red crystal of Sphalerite measuring 4mm can be seen grown on the leaf of Gold. There are several other crystals of Sphalerite in and on the Calcite matrix. A metallic grey-black mineral is in close association with the Native Gold. A rich specimen from Romania.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540701040815,"sku":"CC3209","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC3209.png?v=1770197367"},{"product_id":"native-gold-1","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A fine crystallized Native Gold from the Rosia Montana mining area of Romania, comes with an old hand written label with the date 1878. The specimen shows gorgeous bright metallic gold colour, and is finely crystallized. Crystals of Native Gold form very discernible cubic habit around the outer edge of the specimen measuring to 1mm, to wire like habit at the central areas of the Native Gold.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540701991087,"sku":"CC3336","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC3336.png?v=1770197682"},{"product_id":"native-gold-2","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Fine wires of Native Gold richly invest a ferruginous, conglomeratic matrix from the Belsheazar mine in the Quartzburg Mining District of Boise County, Idaho, USA.  The Native Gold forms intergrown, golden metallic curving and curling wires measuring to approximately 1 cm, together with globular blebs and balls to several millimetres. This is an uncommon specimen from a little known USA location with a net weight of specimen of 36 grams (including the matrix).  A highly aesthetic miniature of Native Gold on and in a porous conglomerate containing rounded quartz pebbles.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540769362095,"sku":"CC3620","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC3620.png?v=1770202804"},{"product_id":"native-gold-4","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Classic specimen of leaf Native Gold from the Harvard Mine, sunshine state of California, USA. Excellent formation of platy petal-like bright metallic yellow Native Gold measuring 3.1 x 1.6cm richly adorns the top of a white vein Quartz\/country rock matrix, with net weight of 41grams.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540769460399,"sku":"CC3626","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC3626.png?v=1770202809"},{"product_id":"native-gold-6","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"An exceptional arborescent display of dendritic and herringbone structured Native Gold from the Round Mountain mine in Nevada, USA.  The slightly orange, buttery-yellow bright metallic Native Gold abundantly covers the display face of this specimen.  The Gold has formed on a druse of colourless-white prismatic Quartz crystals with red-brown Goethite, covering a light grey country rock matrix. Many of the dendritic crystallised structures extend to over 2 cm long and criss-cross the surface, piled one above another.  The arborescent crystals form herringbone, V-shaped and interlaced alternately inverted ‘V^V’ patterns and in many areas, superb cubic and triangular-hopper crystals are in abundance.  An extraordinary and exquisite arborescent specimen of Native Gold from Round Mountain Gold mine.\n","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540769525935,"sku":"CC3631","price":20000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC3631.png?v=1770202815"},{"product_id":"native-gold-9","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A gorgeous thumbnail specimen of Native Gold displaying excellent intergrown crystals of metallic gold with a bright lustre.  The specimen is from a small find at the El Infierno mine in Santa Elena de Uairen, Bolívar, Venezuela and has a net weight of 2.5 grams.  The Native Gold includes a crystal measuring to over 6 mm of excellent habit.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540769624239,"sku":"CC3637","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC3637.png?v=1770202823"},{"product_id":"native-gold-12","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A beautiful bright metallic yellow specimen of Native Gold from the famous Mockingbird mine in Mariposa County, California, USA.  The crystallized Native Gold forms a flat, sheet-like small miniature with branching developments to one side. The Gold encompasses many grains of small, 1 to 2 mm colourless and glassy Quartz. A rarely seen Native Gold from this mine which worked a slate and greenstone-hosted gold vein deposit between the 1890s and 1920, and was reopened briefly during the early 2000s.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540820807855,"sku":"CC5600","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC5600.png?v=1770205278"},{"product_id":"native-gold-13","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Bright metallic Native Gold richly invests the display face of a Quartz matrix, with Native Gold to be seen on the reverse side of the specimen, from the classic gold producing area of Rosa Montana, Romania.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540835750063,"sku":"CC5988","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC5988.png?v=1770205999"},{"product_id":"native-gold-14","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Bright metallic yellow leaf and crystallized Native Gold on Quartz from the Roata Mine, Cavnic, Romania. Native Gold measuring to 1.1cm is seen over several areas of the display side of the Quartz matrix. Forming intergrown leaf-sheets and Native Gold crystals developed from the leaves. Tiny grey-black crystals of Arsenopyrite are associated with the Native Gold, with thin areas of pink-light brown remnants of Calcite on the Quartz. On the underside of the specimen are crystals of Pyrite associated with Arsenopyrite. ","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540865274031,"sku":"CC6671","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC6671.png?v=1770208607"},{"product_id":"native-gold-15","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"The richness of Native Gold found at the Brusson mine in Aosta Valley, Italy is some of the finest known from Europe and always attracts attention. Its allure comes from the way the Gold crystallizes in quite large sculptural hackley masses which when prepared properly sit spectacularly on top of islands of white Milky Quartz. Rich specimens are uncommon. This small cabinet-sized display specimen features two main areas of hackley Native Gold protruding from a thin 'fin' of white Quartz. The largest area of Native Gold measures 3.2 cm across and displays really well. A very rich Italian Native Gold from Dr. Snizek's collection.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540870549679,"sku":"CC7004","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC7004.png?v=1770209207"},{"product_id":"native-gold-16","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Romania has long been known for stunning specimens of crystallized Native Gold on matrix, with great examples seen in the earliest European collections (both private and in museums), and usually recorded as 'Hungary' due to the previous extent of the Hungarian Empire. Most specimens which come up for sale are from Roşia Montană which was worked way back in Roman times, but similar specimens occurred at Fata Baii (Facebánya) about 20 miles to the south, but are much rarer. This lovely miniature specimen comes from Fata Baii, and more specifically from Maria Stollen (mine). We know this because it is accompanied by two very old handwritten labels, one of which is affixed to the back of the specimen. Bright metallic intergrown wire and leaf Native Gold covers areas to 1.2 cm on crystals of Quartz with Galena and Sphalerite. Ex Simone and Peter Huber Collection (no. 1533).","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540871205039,"sku":"CC7034","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC7034.png?v=1770209357"},{"product_id":"native-gold-on-quartz","title":"NATIVE GOLD on QUARTZ","description":"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.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540873924783,"sku":"CC7299","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC7299.png?v=1770210014"},{"product_id":"gold","title":"GOLD","description":"A very rich miniature crystal specimen of Native Gold from Rosia Montana, Romania. The specimen displaying sheets of leaf Native Gold with richly intergrown crystals on a Quartz  with very scattered micro-crystals of Sphalerite and on a light coloured volcanic rock.  A very fine specimen from this classic Romanian location.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540975636655,"sku":"CC7538","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC7538.png?v=1770221629"},{"product_id":"aikinite-with-gold","title":"AIKINITE with GOLD","description":"A classic specimen of Aikinite with Native Gold for the Russian type location. Characteristic crystals of Aikinite are almost completely replaced by Chrysocolla\/Malachite with spots of metallic yellow Native Gold crisscrossing a white Quartz matrix. 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The cluster of Native Gold measuring to 3cm x 1.3cm displays a network leaf-like crystals with rare prismatic crystals of an undefined metallic grey mineral on the Quartz matrix.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540985729199,"sku":"CC7593","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC7593.png?v=1770221981"},{"product_id":"native-gold-19","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A gorgeous large thumbnail (or small miniature) of leaf-sheet Native Gold from the classic Romanian Roşia Montană (Verespatak) area.  Light metallic burnished yellow Native Gold in the habit of crystallised sheets, hackly platelets and small single crystals pervades a matrix of translucent milky Calcite.  The largest crystallised sheet, measuring to 2.6 x 2.3 cm, has a metallic silky lustre whose entire surface is covered in micro-triangular crystal faces.  All the smaller sheets of Native Gold are covered in similar crystals, some better defined than those on the largest sheet.  It is a beautiful example of crystallised Native Gold in miniature form and is a fabulous example from the historic and ancient mining district of Roşia Montană.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46540989956271,"sku":"CC7604","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC7604.png?v=1770222209"},{"product_id":"native-gold-20","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Sheets of Native Gold are seen coursing through a mixture of light red-brown Sphalerite and Quartz, cavities displaying the sheet structure of the Native Gold with rounded crystals of micro-Sphalerite crystals. From the classic Romanian location of Ro?ia Montan?. 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Collecting is now totally illegal and strictly banded at Hope's Nose, a coastal outcrop at the eastern extremity of Torquay, a popular and beautiful holiday town.  This wonderful specimen is richly invested with aesthetic, buttery-golden fronds of dendritic and arborescent Native Gold, the wires of which extend back into the creamy etched Calcite matrix.  Good specimens of Hope's Nose Gold are increasingly difficult to obtain due to high demand and relatively scarce supply, whose source is now limited to specimens in existing collections.  This specimen has been mounted vertically on a small colourless acrylic base.  Simply beautiful.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542899904687,"sku":"CC8780","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC8780.png?v=1770288290"},{"product_id":"native-gold-23","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Round Mountain mine is justifiably one of the best known localities for crystallized Native Gold in the USA, but this honour is a relatively recent one. The mine is a substantial open pit operation and it was during the early years of the 21st century that really stunning crystallized Native Gold specimens started to be discovered. This beautiful rich small cabinet to very large miniature specimen of Native Gold is both tall (or long) and dramatic. The Native Gold occurs as a complex network of thin, golden-yellow, metallic 'leaves', or veinlets cutting through massive white Quartz. The finer detail of the crystallized Native Gold is wonderful, displaying a filigree texture that is best appreciated using magnification, but still abundantly evident with the naked eye. A fine, rich, display quality Native Gold from this modern day classic mine.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542945976495,"sku":"CC9111","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC9111.png?v=1770293588"},{"product_id":"native-gold-24","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A terrific specimen of Native Gold from the famous European location of the Rosia Montana, Romania. A light metallic yellow Native Gold forms as leaf and crystallized habit covering areas to 3cm x 3cm. A fine rich Native Gold specimen on a thin druse of Quartz on a gray rock matrix.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542946566319,"sku":"CC9175","price":6000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC9175.png?v=1770293643"},{"product_id":"native-gold-25","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"One half of an etched powdery-white granular Quartz matrix is coated and invested with buttery-yellow Native Gold forming hackly plates, intergrown crude crystals and well-crystallised arborescent branches to about 1 cm long.  The Gold crystals display many variations of the cubic form and mainly coat underlying sheets of Gold which emerge vertically from the Quartz matrix.  This rich specimen is from the famous deposits at Rosia Montana in Romania, a very ancient mining area dating back to the Copper Age.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542957314223,"sku":"CC10290","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10290.png?v=1770296156"},{"product_id":"native-gold-26","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"This beautiful smaller display specimen of Native Gold is a classic from the area of Romania formerly known as Transylvania. It presents the iconic wafer-thin leaf-gold style of Native Gold for which this region is famed from the very earliest days of mineral collecting. Small (3 to 4 mm) papery thin leaves of exceptionally bright golden metallic Native Gold interlock to form a beautiful 2.8 x 1.5 cm 'island' raised up upon one side of the display face of a porous white Quartz vein which is itself attached to a siliceous rock matrix disseminated with Sphalerite and Pyrite. The Native Gold crystals are delicate but undamaged and have some tiny white needle-like Quartz microcrystals rising up amongst them. It is stunning under magnification. Its provenance is from the 450 Level at Boldut mine, indicating that perhaps this is a more modern piece rather than a centuries-old specimen, but it is nevertheless a perfect example of the classic form of Native Gold from this famous eastern European area, and at a respectable price. Ex Professor Werner Paar Collection.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542957641903,"sku":"CC10327","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10327.png?v=1770296189"},{"product_id":"native-gold-27","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"This Native Gold is from Ro?ia Montan?, the ancient gold mining area in the Ro?ia Montan? Commune of Alba, Romania.  Mining here dates to the early Bronze Age where alluvial gold was recovered.  Gold mining involving underground development seriously began in the 1st Century AD and has continued virtually ever since.  Fabulous specimen.  ","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542957674671,"sku":"CC10328","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10328.png?v=1770296191"},{"product_id":"native-gold-28","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"Baia de Arie? in the north western region of Romania was mined for both gold and silver and is also famous for its telluride minerals.  This lovely small cabinet specimen displays three areas rich in crystallised Native Gold: two of a buttery golden yellow and the third, a brighter, more brassy gold.  The Gold nestles in shallow surface vugs, more like depressions, in a carpet of milky grey micro-crystals of Quartz.  The Native Gold's habit in two areas is of small sheets with zig-zagged edges reminiscent of holly leaves whereas the third patch is more a jumble of metal swarf as found around a lathe bad, but in this case Gold swarf!  A lovey specimen of Native Gold from Romania.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542958592175,"sku":"CC10461","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10461.png?v=1770296288"},{"product_id":"native-gold-29","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A neat and substantial specimen of crystalline leaf-sheet Native Gold from Ro?ia Montan?, Romania. 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","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542958723247,"sku":"CC10473","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10473.png?v=1770296300"},{"product_id":"native-gold-31","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A fine spread of crystalline metallic yellow Native Gold over an area of 4cm x 3cm in a discontinuous form on a white Quartz matrix, from Sacarimb, Romania. Associated with the Native Gold are a number of undefined Sulphides including Sphalerite, Galena, and Chalcopyrite.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542958788783,"sku":"CC10483","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10483.png?v=1770296309"},{"product_id":"native-gold-32","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A very fine specimen of crystalline bright metallic yellow Native Gold on a contrasting white Quartz matrix. A stunning display of leaf-like crystals of Native Gold covering an area of 3cm x 2.7cm with several outlying areas, best viewed under at least 2x magnification to see the very fine crystallization. From the Rosia Montana area in Romania.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542958821551,"sku":"CC10484","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10484.png?v=1770296310"},{"product_id":"native-gold-33","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"An excellent and desirable display of very well crystallized Native Gold from Ro?ia Montan?, Romania. Under low magnification fine diamond shaped crystals of bright metallic yellow Native Gold are very discernable. A fine Native Gold specimen from this classic European Location.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542959050927,"sku":"CC10503","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10503.png?v=1770296330"},{"product_id":"gold-3","title":"GOLD","description":"A very rich specimen of Native Gold from the classic Romanian location. Excellent bright metallic yellow intergrown sheets of Native Gold have triangular growth patterns on their surfaces, with areas of micro-crystalline wires formed over four areas on the Quartz-country rock matrix, the largest measuring to nearly 4cm x 1cm. A metallic lead grey mineral is in a limited association. A pleasing display of Native Gold from this classic location.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542959083695,"sku":"CC10508","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10508.png?v=1770296335"},{"product_id":"native-gold-34","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A thumbnail specimen of solid crystallised Native Gold from the Ro?ia Montan? gold deposits in Alba County, Romania.  The specimen is seen to full advantage under magnification, preferably a x10 loupe or low power stereo microscope.  One side of this flattish specimen is composed of vertically aligned ribs of crystalline Gold.  The reverse side has an area of arborescent crystallised butter-yellow Gold forming intertwined branches.  These cover an exquisite plate made up entirely of symmetrically aligned Gold tetrahedra with triangular faces.  A stunning specimen with fascinating crystallography.  The specimen weighs 2.8 g.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542959116463,"sku":"CC10509","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10509.png?v=1770296337"},{"product_id":"native-gold-35","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A very pleasing specimen of deep yellow Native Gold forming crystalline areas and hackly masses in a Quartz veinstone with some limonitic staining. From the Rodna Mountain area in Romania, probably the Rodna Mine.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542959149231,"sku":"CC10511","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10511.png?v=1770296339"},{"product_id":"gold-4","title":"GOLD","description":"Bright metallic yellow crystalline to sheet-like and hackly Native Gold measuring to over 1cm are clustered over the central area on one side of a snow-white Quartz matrix for a great contrast associated with rare metallic grey micro-crystals of Arsenopyrite, and cleavage masses of Galena on one edge. A pleasing Native Gold specimen from the Boldut Mine, Romania.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542960230575,"sku":"CC10586","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10586.png?v=1770296412"},{"product_id":"gold-5","title":"GOLD","description":"Rich crystalline arborescent light metallic yellow Native Gold forms  area measuring to 2.7cm x 1.8cm, with a further four areas measuring to 1cm, on a thin Quartz micro-crystal druse. From Ro?ia Montan?, Romania.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542966784175,"sku":"CC10992","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC10992.png?v=1770296735"},{"product_id":"native-gold-36","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A fine specimen of Native Gold from the Kremnica area in Slovakia. 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A pleasing old-time specimen of Native Gold from the area.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46542989525167,"sku":"CC11442","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC11442.png?v=1770300057"},{"product_id":"gold-6","title":"GOLD","description":"Beautiful fern-like to arborescent leaf Native Gold from the all-time European classic area of 'Transylvania', Romania. The Native Gold is very light yellow and metallic and is concentrated in an area of 2.3 cm x 2.2 cm on a contrasting siliceous grey matrix. It already looks like a lovely historic specimen but this is confirmed by an old Francis Henry Butler (1849-1935) dealer label that comes with the specimen with an original price of 15\/- shillings on it. 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The Native Gold on this specimen forms folded stippled sheets interlaced with one another, often with hackly edges and variations in lustre between semi-metallic and brightly reflective. It covers an area of 3.8 cm by up to 1.4 cm wide on a mid-grey crystalline limestone matrix with a surface coating of sub-millimetre light grey Calcite crystals. The Native Gold is a bright yellowish gold indicating high purity and in one small area has a surface coating of pale pinkish rose gold.  A rich handsome Native Gold from the John Ruskin Collection (1819-1900). 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Some of the Aikinite crystals show replacement by pastel green Chrysocolla, but overall this is an extremely rich example of this rare species from its Type Locality. Ex Professor Werner Paar Collection.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46543018098863,"sku":"CC12090","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC12090.png?v=1770302745"},{"product_id":"gold-8","title":"GOLD","description":"The wooded hills surrounding the commune of Ro?ia Montan? in Romania have been worked for gold since the time of the Roman occupation and is famous for its magnificent specimens of Native Gold.  This small cabinet specimen has a rich coverage of fine filigree Native Gold which forms flattened sheets over a hard, dark grey blocky matrix, possibly a Quartzite.  The majority of the Native Gold forms a mat of interwoven jumbled wires which under low magnification (i.e., x5 loupe) have a morphology like spongy cotton wool.  Along two edges these wires merge to form tiny lustrous metallic sheets.  Save for the latter, the Gold has a matt lustre, a sucrosic texture and is sandy to ginger-tinted buttery gold in colour.  A rich example from the ancient mining district of Ro?ia Montan?.","brand":"Crystal Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46543021473967,"sku":"CC12434","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/8516\/2671\/files\/CC12434.png?v=1770303038"},{"product_id":"native-gold-37","title":"NATIVE GOLD","description":"A rich 2.5 x 1.2 cm area of bright, metallic brassy golden Native Gold forms intergrown sheets and crystalline habits from Kremnica (Kremnitz) in Žiar nad Hronom County, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. 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