Bonanza Grade Gold and Telluride Ore - Visible Gold! | Mount Baker Mining District | Washington

Описание: This video showcase dives into a massive block of gold–telluride ore from a historic high-grade underground gold camp in the North Cascades of Washington State. The video lingers over glittering streaks and wisps of Bi/Au tellurides and sulfides running through milky white quartz, with honey-colored iron staining and subtle gray metallic bands. The slow, detailed close-ups let you study every fracture, veinlet, and hidden pocket where gold and tellurides lurk.

Perched high above Twin Lakes in the Mount Baker mining district, this remote mountaintop camp was one of the key discoveries that fueled the Mount Baker gold rush at the turn of the 20th century. Early crews packed in supplies by steep trails and worked narrow but exceptionally rich veins that yielded bonanza grades of free gold and gold–bismuth tellurides. Though the district as a whole produced a modest share of Washington’s total gold output, this particular mine became famous among Northwest miners and modern collectors alike for its small but very high-grade ore shoots.

Geologically, the deposit lies within the western North Cascades crystalline core, where quartz fissure veins cut metamorphic rocks of the Darrington Phyllite close to the Miocene Chilliwack Batholith. Deformation related to major regional faults created fractured zones that later acted as pathways for hydrothermal fluids. As those fluids cooled, they deposited coarse quartz with free gold, tellurobismuthite and other Bi–Au tellurides, plus iron sulfides such as pyrite and pyrrhotite—an unusual, telluride-rich variant of orogenic gold mineralization that makes this locality especially interesting to economic geologists.

This particular specimen is a hefty vein block measuring 13.7 × 6.2 × 4.9 cm and weighing 611 grams. Across the face you can see layered quartz with warm rusty zones, silvery-gray sulfide bands, and subtle bright flashes where gold and Bi/Au tellurides concentrate along fractures and seams. It is a quintessential piece of Mount Baker telluride ore—both a beautiful display rock and a textbook example of how complex gold–telluride systems look in hand sample, with provenance from modern underground work in 2025.

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