Crystalline Gold Nuggets

Crystalline gold is the rarest and most beautiful form of gold and California Crystalline gold is especially valued by collectors because of its bright color and unique shapes.

Crystalline gold

Millions of years ago, gold was pushed up through the earth’s crust but at this particular spot, there was thermo steam at over 4,000 degrees F. which also came up. This forced crystallized gold into the quartz rock. To a collector, crystallized gold is worth as many times the value of gold nuggets of the same weight!

True Crystalline gold values are not based on weight but rather the shape and configuration of the piece.

Crystalline gold is very hard to photograph because it is so bright and flashy, the pictures cannot begin to do the specimens true justice.

Crystalline gold is very delicate and hard to extract due to very costly mining expenses.

You probably know that Crystalline gold specimen nuggets like these one are basically classed as gemstones and such attract much higher values than the equivalent weight in bullion gold!

Crystalline gold

Crystalline forms of natural gold can sometimes be worth far more than river rounded gold. Normal river rounded placer gold in smaller sizes is worth about its gold content value in bullion. But crystalline gold can be worth far more than its bullion value to collectors. An excellent example is this specimen that was for sale at the Tucson Gem and Mineral show a few years back. The gold on it is very tiny wires – roughly about 1 mm x 5 mm long. There are a lot of them interwoven almost like fuzz. It is not my specimen, but was mined from a hard rock mine in the Olinghouse district in Nevada (roughly 30 miles east of Reno). Its delicate stuff and would be easy to smash just by grabbing it. The whole specimen was about 10 inches long and maybe 6 inches tall. The gold was on only a part of it and I estimate there was may be 1/2 to 3/4 of an ounce of gold there. It was for sale for $45,000. Depending on the exact amount of gold in it (and you would never smash a piece like this) – that is roughly $75,000 an ounce – a whole lot more than the bullion value. So like I say, crystalline gold can sometimes be worth far more than its bullion value.

	Large 23.8 gram Crystalline Gold nugget Cost $4,050.00
	Crystalline Gold in quartz host rock. 7.2 grams Cost $604.00
	Crystalline Gold nuggert 0.5 gram Cost $85.
	Crystalline Gold nuggerts Total weight 1gram Cost $170.00
	Five Crystalline Gold nuggerts Total weight 0.9 gram Cost $153.00
	Thick Crystalline Gold nuggert. Total weight 4.7 grams Cost $795.00
	Crystalline Gold nuggert Total weight 2.9 grams Cost $493.00
	Crystalline Gold nuggert Total weight 2.6 grams Cost $219.00
	Crystalline Gold Specimen - total weight 3 grams. Cost $225.00 This is a real example of Mother Nature's jewelry, super bright gold embedded in its dark Matrix.
	Crystalline Gold - total weight 6.52 grams. Cost $1,100.00
	Crystalline Gold - total weight 0.24 grams. Cost $41.00
	Crystalline Gold - total weight 0.24 grams. Cost $43.00
	Crystalline gold leaf from Eagles Nest Mine - Frenchmans Adit .17 gram Cost $42