All,
Tonight I was dissolving some gold and wanted to be sure all the nitric from the AR was used up, so I tossed in an 18.3 gram button I had laying around to finish off the excess nitric. When I pulled the button out it had taken on a very beautiful crystaline structure. The following photos do not do the crystal lattice justice. It real life the facets all have hair like striations in them which scatter the light in all directions. The color of the button is a brilliant golden yellow (the photo of the bottom looks closer to the actual color of the nugget).
Here's the top of the button now:
[img:356:356]http://www.goldrecovery.us/images/nugget_natural_top2.jpg[/img]
and the bottom of the crystaline gold nugget:
[img:489:444]http://www.goldrecovery.us/images/nugget_natural_bottom.jpg[/img]
The button weighs 10 grams now and is the most beautiful crystal structure I've ever seen. I'm going to mount a nice stone in the middle pipe and make a necklace out of it.
I'm working on a good photo that captures the color and the lattice. I'll post it when I get the lighting right.
Steve
Tonight I was dissolving some gold and wanted to be sure all the nitric from the AR was used up, so I tossed in an 18.3 gram button I had laying around to finish off the excess nitric. When I pulled the button out it had taken on a very beautiful crystaline structure. The following photos do not do the crystal lattice justice. It real life the facets all have hair like striations in them which scatter the light in all directions. The color of the button is a brilliant golden yellow (the photo of the bottom looks closer to the actual color of the nugget).
Here's the top of the button now:
[img:356:356]http://www.goldrecovery.us/images/nugget_natural_top2.jpg[/img]
and the bottom of the crystaline gold nugget:
[img:489:444]http://www.goldrecovery.us/images/nugget_natural_bottom.jpg[/img]
The button weighs 10 grams now and is the most beautiful crystal structure I've ever seen. I'm going to mount a nice stone in the middle pipe and make a necklace out of it.
I'm working on a good photo that captures the color and the lattice. I'll post it when I get the lighting right.
Steve