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This page provides a selection of the specimens that have passed through the Fabre Minerals website and, due to their quality,
rarity, or significance as specimens from interesting locations, have been preserved as reference specimens in #MVM


Venezuela


Gold
Gold. Front
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Gold. Rear
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MG62X1: The sample has a considerable size for the locality. It is partially stream rounded and cavernous but, at the same time, it has clearly defined crystalline faces.
El Polaco Mine, Icabarú river placers, Santa Elena de Uairen, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela (1990)

Specimen size: 2.5 × 1.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.98” × 0.75” × 0.31”

Weight: 9.7 grams
Gold
 

TC88AB3: Aggregate of octahedral crystals with very deeply hollowed faces and rounded edges. The group has a more deformed side that has very rounded shapes, and the other side has much better defined crystals and hollows.
Zapata claims, Icabarú river placers, Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela (2014)

Specimen size: 1.2 × 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.47” × 0.35” × 0.31”

Weight: 3.5 grams
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
Gold
Gold. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Gold. Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Rear / Photo: Joaquim Callén

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EMP96AO0: Dendritic growth of octahedral Gold crystals of good size, elongated, with well defined faces and edges and very marked skeletal growths.
Zapata claims, Icabarú river placers, Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela

Specimen size: 3 × 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 1.18” × 0.55” × 0.24”

Weight: 7.9 grams
Gold
 

TC26AB2: Very aerial arborescent aggregate of Gold crystals, one of them clearly dominant and with a considerable size, with rounded edges and deep hollows.
Zapata claims, Icabarú river placers, Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela (2014)

Specimen size: 3 × 1.9 × 1.1 cm = 1.18” × 0.75” × 0.43”

Main crystal size: 1.1 × 0.6 cm = 0.43” × 0.24”

Weight: 10.3 grams
Gold. Front
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Gold. Rear
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Gold
Gold.
 

TD88AE9: Very aerial dendritic aggregate of very elongated octahedral crystals that have unusually well defined faces and edges.
San Antonio de Morichal, Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.71” × 0.39” × 0.08”

Weight: 0.8 grams
Gold with minor Palladium
 

MT99AK9: Dendritic growth of flattened octahedral Gold crystals with very well defined faces and edges. Taking into account the frequent debates about Venezuelan Golds, we decided to analyze the specimen. The analysis showed a Palladium content of around 0.5%, significant but insufficient to consider it “Palladian Gold”. We will send the buyer a copy of the analysis.
San Antonio de Morichal, Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela (2019)

Specimen size: 1.8 × 1 × 0.4 cm = 0.71” × 0.39” × 0.16”

Weight: 1.7 grams
Gold with minor Palladium. Front
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Gold with minor Palladium. Rear
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Gold
Gold. Front
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Gold. Rear
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Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MXB29AO1: Floater group of octahedral Gold crystals, very elongated due to the formation of parallel growths. An especially aesthetic specimen.
Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela

Specimen size: 1.3 × 1.3 × 0.2 cm = 0.51” × 0.51” × 0.08”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.15 cm = 0.39” × 0.06”

Weight: 1.2 grams
Gold

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

EAB96AN7: Floater octahedral Gold with very sharp crystal forms and faces and with deep hopper growths with sharp internal steps.
Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela

Specimen size: 1.5 × 0.9 × 0.8 cm = 0.59” × 0.35” × 0.31”

Weight: 5.0 grams
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
Gold. Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Front / Photo: Joaquim Callén
Gold.
Wire Gold on Quartz
Wire Gold on Quartz.
 

TQ28I8: Precious miniature. An elongated wire growth, practically cylindrical, on a matrix of white Quartz. Wire forms are very rare with Gold and this find from Venezuela was one of the main novelties at Tucson 2007.
Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela (07/2006)

Specimen size: 1.7 × 1.1 × 0.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.43” × 0.28”

Gold

Fluorescent light (daylight)
 

MRM99AO1: Arborescent growth of octahedral Gold crystals, with very sharp and elongated crystal forms.
Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela

Specimen size: 2.1 × 0.7 × 0.5 cm = 0.83” × 0.28” × 0.20”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.2 cm = 0.39” × 0.08”

Weight: 1.4 grams
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
Wire Gold on Quartz
Wire Gold on Quartz.
 

TP76I8: Precious miniature. An elongated wire growth, practically cylindrical, with small Quartz matrix. The growth on the base of the specimen is quite different and there are crystals of quite well-defined crystalline forms. Wire forms are very rare with Gold and this find from Venezuela was one of the main novelties at Tucson 2007.
Santa Elena de Uairén, Gran Sabana, Bolívar State  Venezuela (07/2006)

Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.3 × 0.6 cm = 0.94” × 0.51” × 0.24”

Weight: 2.6 grams
Gold
 

TZ89AB3: Very aerial aggregate of flattened octahedral crystals with very well defined faces on the edges, with small hollows left by lost granules.
Caroní River, Uriman, Bolívar State  Venezuela (2014)

Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.2 × 0.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.47” × 0.12”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.6 cm = 0.39” × 0.24”

Weight: 1.7 grams
Gold. Front
Front
Gold. Rear
Rear
Gold
Gold. Front
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Gold. Rear
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MF94AK8: Group of elongated rhombododecahedral crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with unusually sharp crystalline forms. The morphology of the specimen is excellent.
Uriman, Bolívar State  Venezuela (2019)

Specimen size: 1.3 × 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.51” × 0.20” × 0.20”

Weight: 2.1 grams


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