GRIM REAPER'S 'DD' Work

This rutilated quartz comes from the Nolan Creek drainage, in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska. The quartz crystals occur in fissures and vugs in metamorphic host rock. The crystal featured in this photo is around one inch wide, flawless, and contains numerous rutile needles ranging in color from reddish copper to brown. Some of the vugs an Nolan Creek contain crystals up to several inches long. Others have crystal clusters with rutile needles that stand alone and are not included in the quartz.

The rutilated quartz faceted into gemstones, some of the crystals are worth more uncut, as unusual and excellent mineral specimens.

http://www.silverado.com/partial-view-of-the-pringle-mineralized-structure/

Picture from the Bureau of Land Management

Where there are quartz veins and quartz-carbonate stockwork, you will find Gold. Garry who is a geochimist knows this for a fact, Silverado Gold Mines LTD has found 97% pure placer gold nuggets on their Nolan Creek Antimony-Gold Project. All the geological work done by the company shows that the Quartz veins stretch across the Solomon Shear Zone.

"It is significant to note that the placer mining areas immediately below the mineralized zone of the Hillside area yielded quartz-carbonate gold nuggets as well as the largest portion of the 23,000 ounces of placer gold taken by Silverado during the exploration phase. Gold bearing solutions flowing in and through these zones rapidly precipitate out their gold within a carbonate environment."

"we could cut the ore out of the ground and sell as specimen. Our gold is most often associated with optical grade hexagonal quartz crystals in a matrix of pure white quartz-carbonate on this area of the property and as such make an excellent case for exceptionally beautiful specimens. Gold specimens of this calibre often sell for 5 to 10 times the value of their gold content (i.e.: museums and collectors)."

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