Rare specimens, collectible bullion, and premium geological artifacts. Each piece authenticated and documented.
The Vault holds mineral specimens, collectible bullion and geological artifacts. Each piece is listed individually with its own documentation rather than sold from an undifferentiated stock, because provenance is most of what separates a specimen from a rock.
Specimen collecting sits close to the analytical side of mining. Learning to recognise mineralisation in the hand — sulphide textures, alteration halos, vein structures — is the same skill that lets you read a core photograph in a technical report with any confidence.
If you are new to this, our glossary covers the terminology that appears in specimen descriptions, and the gold grade guide explains why visible gold in a hand sample says far less about a deposit than most people assume.
Each piece is listed with its own documentation covering, where known, the locality it came from and its mineralogy. Provenance is what distinguishes a documented specimen from an unattributed one, so it is recorded per item rather than claimed generally.
Not reliably. Visible gold is striking in a hand sample and can occur in deposits whose average grade is unremarkable, because gold distribution is often extremely erratic. Grade is an average across tonnes of rock, which is why assay results matter more than any single specimen.