Large wire gold

[thedigger]

This is a long article,but a good read.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/05/worlds-rarest-form-natural-gold-reveals-secrets/

 

[limpalot]

Great read, When you think about Acids from different soils and Static Electricity from trees; you start to wonder about these studies,and why gold is where it is sometimes. :Y:

 

[Deepseeker]

Thanks theDigger, that was indeed a great article.

I think it highlights yet again that we know so little about the yellow stuff and where it comes from, or in fact helps reveal that it comes from many different origins. That Rams horn gold specimen was quite a beautiful piece, and obviously formed so differently from say the Latrobe nugget, or the hand of faith. :goldnugget:

 

[user 4386]

We do get wire gold here - eg I have seen nuggets of it from Cloncurry, and as a teenager collected some from underground hard-rock gold mines still operating then in the now outer northern suburbs of Melbourne (I still have a small piece from there).

 

[Peko]

I have found a few pieces of wire gold,one I call a T. rex tooth in the rams horn wire gold and another of wire gold that weaves in and out of the host rock and sits up like a cobra,

 

[user 4386]

I have found a few pieces of wire gold,one I call a T. rex tooth in the rams horn wire gold and another of wire gold that weaves in and out of the host rock and sits up like a cobra,

They can be beautiful

 

[StoneTheCrows]

Goldierocks is that wire gold in your avatar?