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Gold crystal or crystal gold

cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,188 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,953 ✭✭✭✭✭

    crystal piece of gold

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  • bigzesteebigzestee Posts: 129 ✭✭✭

    It looks like a piece from a kid's science rock kit that is supposed to look like gold.

    BST references several

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    photoshop

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,188 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bronco2078 said:
    photoshop

    I do believe those are individual crystals of gold.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • element159element159 Posts: 527 ✭✭✭

    Looks beautiful!

  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cohodk said:

    @bronco2078 said:
    photoshop

    I do believe those are individual crystals of gold.

    Probably one crystal run through the fractal tool

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have heard of crystallized gold... saw a picture once... .That 'looks' fake to me.... @cohodk...can you tell us more about it? Cheers, RickO

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here is a picture of crystallized gold as I have seen before....
    https://youtu.be/tCetp2k4o4A

    Cheers, RickO

  • cohodkcohodk Posts: 19,188 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    I have heard of crystallized gold... saw a picture once... .That 'looks' fake to me.... @cohodk...can you tell us more about it? Cheers, RickO

    Don't have any additional info. It came up in a geology website I frequent. I does look like many other gold crystals I've seen though. I don't know how big it is.

    Excuses are tools of the ignorant

    Knowledge is the enemy of fear

  • Mission16Mission16 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭

    That looks to be a lab grown crystal. Kinda cool but doesn't look like a natural specimen.

    When I collected mineral specimens, I had a few small (very small) gold and silver crystal structures. Very beautiful.

  • WildIdeaWildIdea Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭✭✭

    So a crystal would grow in a pocket where the cooling gold was not mixed with quarts, I guess. Happens naturally, but rare to find a pocket unless hard rock mining by hand.

    My favorite reads are of gold rush stories of old. One spoke of a hard rock mine in CO that opened up into a room encrusted in crystal gold. I want to believe it and can just imagine it. I can also just as easily imagine pockets hiding crystal gold getting bulldozed in strip mines everyday in NV. Round mtn. Mine has a lot of crystal.

    I suppose they could lab grow gold crystals someplace but it dies occur naturally and if natural the op pictured one would be worth a lot for sure.

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