NATIVE Gold

Unknown Owner

Discovered in about 1911, the Timmins mine at Bristol Township, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada went through a century of intense prospecting and detailed underground geological mapping before finally going into production in 2011. This specimen from the superb systematic collection assembled by the brothers Martin and Michael Günther (1951-2007 & 1956-2021) is the only one I have seen from this mine. Weighing in at 104 grams this larger miniature-sized specimen is richly invested with fine patches of bright yellow metallic Native Gold filling fractures within clasts of massive milky-white Quartz and with what appears to be spots of dark coloured sulphides. A rarely seen locality for Canadian Native Gold.