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Article: Morphology of Gold Crystals from the Yukon Territory, Canada.
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- Rocks & Minerals
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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It came as a surprise to learn that although there is--please pardon the pun--a gold mine of literature about the world's last great gold rush, there is really not much written for the collector about the actual material produced in the region, especially regarding collector specimens. This article provides an overview of locality information of the Yukon Territory gold fields and of the morphology of well-developed crystals that have been found there.
It is not my intention to review the crystal morphology of gold. Francis (2004) discussed gold and its crystal forms in the previous issue, and the reader is referred to this article for further, if not prior, ...
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