This is a wonderful gold <u>crystal</u> --- not nugget --- from Venezuela. Specimens from this placer deposit are almost one hundred percent pure gold. They are typically found in kaolin clay and many have small sand grains of white quartz stuck in them. <BR><BR>
This piece weighs 1.42 grams and is 0.9 cm tall (longest dimension). This crystal is a distorted, somewhat skeletal, octahedron. I have displayed it at an angle to show off the wonderful triangular face at the top.