Photos of gold ores, quartz, telluride gold ore
In most gold ore, the gold is present in tiny specs, either within minerals like pyrite, or spread out free among the quartz. Normally even good, rich gold ore has no gold metal which is visible to the naked eye. The photo at left shows small particles of metallic gold in quartz taken from the mountains of Canada. Sections of gray colored quartz in the specimen have this appearance because of