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NV - Goldfield,Esmeralda County - Gold Specimens - Goldfield, Nevada

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
NV - Goldfield,Esmeralda County - Gold Specimens - Goldfield, Nevada
Session D is a Mail-Bid Only Auction. Absentee bids will be accepted only. No live bidding will be allowed. All winners will be contacted after the auction. BIDDING ENDS MONDAY JUNE 27 AT 5PM PACIFIC TIME!!!
Lot of 23 gold bearing ore specimens from the Florence Mine. Gold was discovered here in 1902, with total production to 1940 valued at $86 million, making Goldfield one of the riches mining boom towns of the American West. The Florence mine was one of the largest and technologically advance producers in the district, have a giant ball mill rather than the less effieceint stamp mills of the time. Samples in this lot consist of native gold and a number of gold bearing tellurides including famatinite and goldfieldite - the type locale. Additonally this lot includes many cut and polished samples nicely showing textures of the breccia hosted ores and a great example of sphalerite beaing ore - pre and post roasting. Samples are all mounted with labels and range insize from less than one inch to two inches in diameter.