Unique Specimen

[normmcq]

 I just got back home yesterday from wintering in Arizona and am now seemingly a prisoner in my own home due to the virus. I was able to go out detecting many times with only a few skunk days. The last day out, I found this specimen that is quite different from anything I had found before.

                                                                                                                          Norm

[flakmagnet]

Weight? (beautiful find Norm)

[vanursepaul]

Very nice Norm

[Rob]

Very nice find Norm!

[fredmason]

That is strange....gold fungus....I guess!

welcome home

fred

[wardo]

Really, really nice Norm. Good goin’ !

Mike W.

 

[Jim_Alaska]

Is the host rock Basalt?  Nice find.

[normmcq]

 I really don't know what the matrix is, if you expand the picture you can see small shiny faces. They look crystalline in structure. As to the weight, it is only 1.71 grams. a little creative photography gives it some size

                                         Norm

[Patrick in Havasu]

Beautiful piece Norm.  It was great seeing you both in Q.  It had been a long time. 

[Lunk]

Way to go Norm! Sounds like you had a good winter season. Is your specimen attracted to a magnet at all?