Crystallized Gold
photo: Heritage Auction
While Gold mining is a common industrial practice all over the Earth, the precious metal occurs in crystal form in only a few select locations throughout the world. Formed at great depths, under enormous heat, beautiful natural crystals waited hundreds of millions of years to be found by sheer luck in a farm field in Brazil. This truly remarkable example features sharply crystallized, three-dimensional shapes considered extremely rare and desirable for Gold. Likely only 1 in 1,000 mines produces such incredible forms of the coveted crystallized Gold, and the specimen, weighing a substantial 379 grams, is very large for the type. The combination of size, rarity and aesthetics makes this striking example a superlative crystallized Gold. This offering represents over 12 troy ounces of high purity Gold in a supreme quality collector specimen.
