GOLD

Wire Patch Mine

Farncomb Hill

Breckenridge

Summit County

Colorado

Dimensions:18 mm (width) x11 mm (height) x2 mm (thick)

Sample Weight:0.0275 oztor0.855grams

Most wire gold samples from both Breckenridge and Leadville are actually spinel-twin crystals that have formed elongated wire-likecrystals. \"Sponge\" gold is another distinctive habit seen mostly at Leadville. Many of these samples appear to be crystallized, but the crystal \"faces\" are actually casts of quartz crystals that have been etched away.

Leadville is typically thought of as a silver mining district, famous for Horace Tabor and the Matchless Mine among others, but there was a gold \"belt\" that encompassed the Ibex Mine and nearby mines not included in the Ibex group (the famous Little Jonny was the #1 shaft of the Ibex group) where miners extracted large quantities of gold after the original silver boom. The Ibex was by farthe greatest producer of gold in the Leadville district and helped line thecoffers of John Campion and JJ Brown (\"unsinkable\" Molly\'s husband) among other notables. Campion was also one of the more successful gold miners in Breckenridge with the Wapiti group. The famous Campion gold collection includes some of the finest gold samples ever found in Colorado andis still on display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

Sample number:5622 Lot: 0907-0020

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