Very Rich Gold and Telluride Ore - Visible Gold! | Bessie G Mine | La Plata District | Colorado | 8K

Описание: This 8K macro showcases a rare gold–telluride ore specimen from the Bessie G Mine in the La Plata Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Shot on a Panasonic S1R II, the video glides over gray quartz veining studded with dark, waxy patches of coloradoite, silvery hessite and sylvanite, and scattered specks of native gold. Ultra-slow pans and tight macro close-ups let you pause and study each tiny metallic bleb, veinlet, and crystallized pocket in stunning detail.

The La Plata district in La Plata County has a long history of precious-metal production, with silver first noted by Spanish explorers in the 1700s and high-grade gold–silver mining booming from the 1870s into the early 20th century. More than 95–98% of the district’s historic output was gold and silver, much of it from rich telluride-bearing veins and replacement bodies scattered across over 90 individual mines and prospects. The Bessie G is one of the notable high-grade producers, famous among specialists for complex Au–Ag–Hg telluride assemblages that have been the focus of several petrologic and geochemical studies.

Geologically, the Bessie G lies within an alkaline, porphyry-related epithermal system where gold is carried in quartz veins and breccias associated with intermediate to felsic intrusions in the La Plata Mountains. The ore is characterized by native gold intimately intergrown with tellurides of gold, silver, and mercury—particularly coloradoite (HgTe), hessite (Ag₂Te), and sylvanite (AgAuTe₄)—with late-stage native gold even filling tiny fractures along the cleavage of hessite in polished sections. These bonanza-style epithermal veins are relatively low in sulfur but extremely rich in precious metals, making them a textbook example of Au(Ag)-telluride mineralization in Colorado.

This particular specimen is a chunky hand piece of quartz with a broad, ore-rich zone running across one face—dark gray, fine-grained tellurides and sulfides shot through the lighter quartz and hosting microscopic gold. It is the kind of piece that rewards magnification: under 8K macro, subtle differences in luster between coloradoite, hessite and sylvanite begin to emerge, and tiny glints of gold appear along fractures and grain boundaries. For collectors of gold suites, telluride species, or obscure Colorado localities, this is exactly the sort of specimen that tells a rich geologic story in a single rock.

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