Description
Gold-bearing quartz sample, in its juice, with a few micro-crystals of native gold in gray quartz veinlets, from the Petite Faye mine in the Creuse department of the Limousin region.
Known since Gallo-Roman times, the mine was really active at the beginning of the 20th century, then from 1951 to 1962. Only 321 kg of gold were produced.
Superb geological and mineralogical specimen.
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