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Gold crystal or crystal gold
RedneckHB
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crystal piece of gold
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It looks like a piece from a kid's science rock kit that is supposed to look like gold.
BST references several
photoshop
I do believe those are individual crystals of gold.
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Looks beautiful!
Probably one crystal run through the fractal tool
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
Here is a picture of crystallized gold as I have seen before....
https://youtu.be/tCetp2k4o4A
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.
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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.
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.