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Photograph of Native GoldNATIVE GOLD
Au
Wire Patch mine, Breckenridge, Colorado

Each of these elongated crystals of gold are actually two crystals intergrown in a geometrical relationship called twinning.

Size: 1 cm across

Acquired: 1968 purchase, Foundation Acquisition Fund.

Disposition: On display in the Gold exhibit.

Catalog Number: 7557 (magnified portion)