Bonanza Grade Calaverite Gold Ore | Cripple Creek Mining District | Colorado

Описание: This video showcase gets you right up on bright silvery-white calaverite crystals intertwined with fluorite and quartz from Colorado’s legendary Cripple Creek District. The slow, steady close-ups let you study every glittering telluride blade, micro-vug, and textured vein surface in ultra-high resolution—perfect for pausing and zooming in on the ore mineralogy.

Cripple Creek, in Teller County, is one of the world’s classic gold camps, discovered in 1891 and ultimately producing more than 20–23 million ounces of gold—making it the most productive gold district in Colorado and among the top in the United States. The early boom built the towns of Cripple Creek and Victor and made the district famous for rich, but often narrow, high-grade gold–telluride veins. Specimens with well-crystallized calaverite from this area are highly sought after by collectors and feature prominently in museum displays and Mineralogical Record writeups.

Geologically, Cripple Creek is a Miocene alkaline-magmatic gold telluride deposit centered on a diatreme and volcanic dome complex. Ore occurs in sheeted vein and breccia zones within phonolite and related volcanic rocks, where fluids deposited quartz, fluorite, adularia, carbonates, and iron oxides along with gold–silver tellurides. Calaverite (AuTe₂) is the principal ore mineral, with minor sylvanite and petzite, forming thin coatings and crystals lining open fractures and vugs—exactly the style of mineralization you see highlighted in this piece.

This particular specimen is a hand-sized piece measuring 4.6 × 4.0 × 1.9 cm and weighing 59 grams. The surface is densely covered with bright, silvery-white calaverite crystals on a pale gray quartz matrix, punctuated by subtle purple fluorite and gangue textures that show beautifully under macro lighting. It is a textbook example of Cripple Creek gold telluride ore in miniature—rich in metallic sparkle yet compact enough to display easily.

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