This elegant gold-in-quartz specimen from the historic Alleghany Mining District of California captures the refined beauty that has made this region a legend among collectors. A softly contoured, milky-white quartz matrix serves as a clean and luminous backdrop, hosting scattered pockets and seams of native gold that glint brilliantly across the surface.
The gold occurs in a delicate, naturally distributed pattern — appearing as bright, buttery accents tucked within subtle fractures and openings in the quartz, along with a more prominent crystalline cluster perched near the top. This balance of fine dissemination and localized concentration gives the piece a graceful, understated richness that rewards close inspection.
Alleghany is world-renowned for producing high-grade lode gold specimens, often with exceptional purity and striking visual contrast, and this piece is a fine example of that legacy. With its classic gold-in-quartz presentation, pleasing proportions, and collector-favorite locality, it offers both strong display appeal and enduring geological significance.
Specific Gravity testing indicates approximately 4.21 grams of contained gold.
Item #T3119
Total Weight: 33.97 grams
Contained Gold: 4.21 grams
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Only about 2% of the gold in the world is in “gold nugget” form and the other 98% is microscopic speck and flake gold found in ore. A good gold ore today will have about one ounce of gold for every two tons of rock.
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