Wire Gold on Quartz

Precious miniature. An elongated wire growth, practically cylindrical, on a matrix of white Quartz. Wire forms are very rare with Gold and this find from Venezuela was one of the main novelties at Tucson 2007.

Santa Elena, La Gran Sabana, Bolívar  Venezuela (07/2006)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.7” × 0.4” × 0.3”