Mineral: Gold
Locality: Joes Gully, Upper Tooloom, Buller County, New South Wales, Australia
Dimensions: 1,5 x 2,0 x 2,5 cm

Description: Main crystal size : 1,8 cm Group of sharp hoppered cubic crystals with a bright yellow color and some remaining grey matrix attached on one side. The cubic shape is very rare in gold crystals which assume most frequently the octahedral or more or less modified dodecahedral habits. MIM number 1617 Photographer : Augustin de Valence (Ainu)

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