Graham — Native Gold from, Gold Harbour. 



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Art. Y. — Native Gold from Gold Harbour, Queen 

 Charlotte Islands ; by R. P. D. Graham, Lecturer in 

 Mineralogy, McGill University. 



A beautiful example of the crystallization of native gold 

 has recently been presented to the McGill University Museum 

 by ¥m. Fleet Robertson, Esq., the Provincial Mineralogist of 

 British Columbia, and on account of the comparative rarity of 

 sharply defined crystals of this mineral it was thought that the 

 occurrence merited a short note. The specimen is additionally 

 interesting owing to the fact that it comes from Gold Harbour 

 on Moresby Island, one of the Queen Charlotte Islands, which 



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locality, as Mr. Robertson informs me, was the scene of the 

 very first gold excitement in British Columbia. 



The gold, in the specimen examined, occurs as a cluster of 

 crystals attached to colorless crystals of quartz, which also 

 enclose specks of gold. With one exception the crystals are 

 quite small, having a diameter of about l mm , but the remaining 

 crystal stands out very prominently on the specimen and meas- 

 ures 4x3 mm , the elongation being along a trigonal axis ; all are 

 remarkably brilliant, and, both in luster and in the sharpness 

 of their edges, they compare with even the brightest crystals of 

 pyrite, from which mineral, however, they can at once be dis- 

 tinguished by the characteristic golden yellow color. 



