"Empty quartz-filled holes reveal the six sided tips of quartz crystals. As these are encountered on both sides of the nugget, it confirms that the precipitation process has caused gold to fill all openings available in the fissure when gold was being deposited. This process can form very high grade gold enriched zones."

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Gold nugget showing tips of quartz crystals broken off in gold.