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Lot 8125

Barite on Calcite

3 December 2006, 11:00 PST
Los Angeles

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Barite on Calcite

1375 ft Level, “Rust Bucket” Pocket, Meikle Mine
Bootstrap District, Elko County, Nevada

A cabinet specimen from the world-famous Meikle gold mine, the largest underground gold mine in North America. Average daily production is 35,000 tons of ore and rock per day. In 1994, superb and gemmy golden barite crystals were discovered in huge open caverns, contained in the footwall of the ore deposit. But, it wasn’t until 2001, that the crystal cave known as the “Rust Bucket” pocket was discovered at a depth of 1375 feet. Meikle’s best specimens of deep gold, gemmy, world-class barites come from this locality. The present specimen displays a large cluster of bright, golden yellow barite crystals, having good transparency, intersecting at angles form a “ridge” atop cluster of translucent calcite crystals. An excellent example from an historic pocket, from which quality specimens are already quite scarce. Measuring 5 ¾ x 4 x 3 ¾ in

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