Rarest of the Rare

Rarest of the Rare

Join Gem Expert and Rockhound Renata on her quest to find a rare mineral prized by collectors, a pure gold crystal. Renata starts off her journey by examining a variety of gold crystals, such as nugget gold mixed in quartz, hairy fibrous gold crystals, and elongated crystals from Idaho. We even see a large gold specimen found in the late 1800s from Farm Comb Hill! In this video, Renata finds a single gold octahedron crystal from Venezeula with visible growth lines! Watch as Renata is hunting for some of the rarest gold crystals around!

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