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Description: Gold, Quartz Locality: Atlantic Cable Mine (Cable Mine), Georgetown District (Southern Cross District; Cable District), Deer Lodge County, Montana, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 6.3 x 5.9 x 3.3 cm. A bright, richly burnished, 6 mm gold crystal cluster perched atop milky quartz from the much less well-known Atlantic Cable (Cable) Mine of Montana. This mine was located in 1866 and not mined for very long. Old, historic, seldom available material. Ex. Smithsonian Collection, with label.
Title: Gold-Quartz-236683
Credit: http://www.mindat.org/photo-236683.html
Author: Robert M. Lavinsky
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