ncat NOVM Gold, Mazowe Goldfield, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe
Pareidolia! I see the head of a Big Cat in this small slug of gold in quartz. Photo width 3.5mm. Stack of 30 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Gold
7472 JL0546 Gold, Heathcote, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from Tony Fraser at the Canberra Gemboree for $1.
7451 JL0945 Gold, Wapiti Mine, Farncomb Co., California, USA
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1991. Ex Museum Victoria.
1045 Gold, Cracow, Queensland
Rough hackly bits of gold in matrix. Acquired from Ian Graham in 1993. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
0878 Gold, Stibnite, Heathcote, Victoria
Spongy reddish gold that results possibly from the breakdown of aurostibite(?) with small areas of more yellow native gold, and silver stibnite. Collected by me in the early 1990s. Width of view 3.5mm. Stack of...
5178 Gold, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Photo width 11mm. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan from Harold Gallasch, Hahndorf, South Australia in 1995 for $15.00. Probably from the Wire Patch, Farncomb Hill (Brian Kosnar).
7436 JL1808 Gold, Galena, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato Region, North Island, New Zealand
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
7433 JL1802 Gold, Pyrite, Hill End, Wellington Co., New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
7429 JL0007 Gold, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1992. Ex Museum Victoria. Collected in 1898.
7413 JL2906 Pyrite, Gold, Galena, Hill End, Wellington Co., New South Wales
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 63 images.
7406 JL0615 Gold, Ballarat, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1990. Ex Museum Victoria.
7353 JL3637 Gold, Martha Mine (Waihi Mine), Waihi, Hauraki District, Waikato Region, North Island, New Zealand
Tiny fragment in a capsule. Acquired by Joan Lamond in 2001 from Jocelyn Thornton at the Mineralogical Societies Seminar in Hobart.
5715 Gold, Emperor Mine, Vatukoula, Vatukoula Gold Field, Viti Levu, Fiji
Stacked crystals of gold that twist and bend giving an almost curved wire gold look. In one image, the red circled areas show a change to the tips of these “wires”. One in particular is...
1002 Gold, Eagle Mine, Potomac, Montgomery Co., Maryland, USA
A single grain of gold approximately 1mm wide, mounted on the point of a pin. Label says recovered from the rock run below the Eagle mine. Width 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Label also includes...
5174 JL0004 Gold, Moliagul, Victoria
Cluster of tiny gold crystals. Width 5.5mm. Stack of 80 images. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Obtained from Gordon Dicker in 1973.
5677 Gold, Sebastopol, City of Ballarat, Victoria
Small amount of gold in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 70 images.
9120 JP2802 Gold, Bendigo, City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Gold (trying very hard to be an octahedral crystal) in quartz. Width 11mm. Stack of 58 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9037 JP2292 Gold, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Very small patches of hackly gold embedded in quartz. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
5672 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Small amount of gold with iridescent goethite in white quartz.
5671 Gold, Goethite, New Penrose Mine, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Bright gold patches with iridescent goethite in white quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 50 images.
9018 JP2256 Gold, La Gardette Mine, Bourg d’Oisans, Isere, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Rich hackly gold in quartz. Width 9mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9008 JP2389 Gold, Galena, Wirrealpa Mine (Flinders Range Silver Lead NL; Donkey Bore Prospect), Wirrealpa homestead area, North Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Small flakes of gold on vein quartz and on galena. Also present in one cavity – malachite and cerussite. Possible acanthite on silver in another. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
9076 JP2761 Gold, Wolfram Mine, Pittong, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Many flakes of gold on matrix. Width 6.5mm. Stack of 44 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
5200 Gold, Kittitas Co., Washington
5200-5203 mounted in one box. by Jules Bernhardt in 1976. Video best viewed full screen.
20026 Gold Mathinna district, Break O’Day municipality, Tasmania
Small amount of gold in quartz. See arrow.
ncat JL1333 Gold, Hopes Nose, Devon, England
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1994 from Nick Carruth. Photo width 11mm.
7333 JL3638 Gold, Chlorargyrite, MMM Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Acquired in 2001 by Joan Lamond from George Lysiuk (collected in 1986).
ncat JP3128 Gold, Greymouth, Grey District, West Coast Region, South Island, New Zealand
Shantytown. Jack Nelson Collection
30046 Gold, Glenluce, Mount Alexander Shire, Victoria, Australia
Coarsely crystalline gold in white quartz. Chris Ah Yee.
30045 Gold, Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand
Flattened alluvial gold. John Betts.
4782 Gold, Berringa, Golden Plains Shire, Victoria
Waverley Show 2017
7104 Gold, Rosia Montana (Verespatak; Vorospatak; Goldbach), Rosia Montana Commune, Alba, Romania
ex Joan Lamond Collection
20008 Gold, Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Victoria
Coarse hackly gold on contact edge of quartz reef
8131 Gold, Mount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Mount Isa – Cloncurry area, Queensland
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8116 Gold, Kidston mine, Etheridge Shire, Queensland
ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
20017 Gold, Stannite, Quartz, Oruro City, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
Many patches of gold in crystaline quartz with a few stannite crystals.
20018 Gold, Ferberite, Julcani District, Angaraes Province, Huancavelica Department, Peru
Small amount of gold with wolframite.
4255 Gold, Winnecke Goldfield, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
ex Jack Leach Collection
4190 Gold, Boulangerite(?), Stibnite, Hillgrove, New South Wales
ex Jack Leach Collection
4182 Gold, Mineral Hill, near Condobolin, New South Wales
ex Jack Leach Collection
2880 Gold, Quartz, Turkey Track Mine, Union Hills, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA
Small bright gold nestled amongst quartz crystals.
2845 Gold, Mottramite, Vanadinite, Shelby Mine, Gold Basin District, White Hills, Cerbat Mts (Cerbat Range), Mohave Co., Arizona, USA
2 or 3 patches of gold on green mottramite and red vanadinite.
2848 Gold, Chrysocolla, Manto Tres Gracias Mine, Diego de Almagro, El Salado, Chanaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile
Two pieces. Bright gold on deep blue chrysocolla.
6089 Gold, Castlemaine, Victoria
Small nugget, about 8mm tall, very coarse with minor quartz
6086 Rutheniridosmine, Iridium, Gold, Ironstone Creek, Para Para, South Island, New Zealand
Rutheniridosmine and Iridosmine (iridium) crystalline silvery grey granules, with native gold
6080 Gold, Moonlight Mine, Berringa, Victoria
Two small coarse gold in white quartz specimens
6065 Gold, Maryborough, Victoria
Alluvial or deep lead nugget with minor quartz, 0.38g.
5371 Gold, Fluorite, Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Tasmania
JL1376. Geoff Randall $5
5372 Gold, Barossa Goldfields, South Australia
JL1374. Geoff Randall $5
5159 Gold, Fluorite, Williamsford, Tasmania
JL0337. Arthur Roffey $12
5161 Gold, Peak Hill, Western Australia
JL0179. Ex Museum Vic
5162 Gold, Kaolinite, Messenger’s Patch, Western Australia
JL0236. Ex Museum Vic
5163 Gold, Marble Bar, Western Australia
JL0514. Michael Newnham $5
ncat JP3150 Gold, Cue, Cue Shire, Western Australia
Ex Jack Nelson Collection
7037 JL1 Gold, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia
ex Joan Lamond Collection
1664 Gold, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia
Small patches of gold on quartz.
1547 Gold, Fiery Creek, Beaufort, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria
Crystalline nugget 4.66g.
1534 Gold, Rhine river alluvials, Kembs, Sierentz, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France
Sealed glass ampule containing many flattened flakes of gold. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
1453 Gold, California, USA
11 well-formed gold crystals. Ex Hugh Ford. Ex Eugene Carmichael, number 1401.
1224 Gold, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Gold in matrix, 10x5mm. Ex Roland Fogg MM Collection, 1971. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
1016 Gold, Second Broad river, Rutherford Co., North Carolina, USA
Four gold nuggets panned by Charles Willett in Second Broad River, Near Marion,, Rutherford Co., mounted on cork post (standard micromount support).
1013 Gold, Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Georgia, USA
Gold nugget panned by E Lee Wood. Mounted by Charles Willett on a cactus needle.
0538 Gold, Macraes Mine (Round Hill Mine), Macraes Flat, Palmerston, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand
Ex Joan Lamond 3636, acquired as a swap with Jocelyn Thornton. Patch of gold in quartz with minor sulphide mineralisation, possibly arsenopyrite.
0089 Gold, Andersons Creek, Warrandyte, Victoria
Known as the Wombat’s head. From one of the two first official gold discoveries in Victoria. I panned this before I became interested in minerals.
0079 Kuranakhite, Gold, Tellurium, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Tiny brown puffballs of kuranakhite with dark yellow gold and silver tellurium
0052 Gold, Timroseite, Khinite, Bird Nest drift, Otto Mountain, Baker, San Bernardino Co., California, USA
Visible gold with yellow timroseite and green khinite
0012 Kuranakhite, Gold, Tellurium, Moctezuma Mine (Bambolla Mine), Moctezuma, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico
Tiny brown puffballs of kuranakhite with dark yellow gold and silver tellurium
5184 Gold, Fumina South, Victoria
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0086 Gold, Roger A Mine, Mount Kare Valley, Papua New Guinea
Crude crystals of gold make up this specimen from the Roger A Mine, Mt Kare Valley, Mt Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo width 5mm.