Gold Beaches

The Gold Beaches of Corellia have often been referred to as one of the greatest natural wonders of the Galactic Core. Eons of exposure to the breaking waves of the surf and wind have manipulated the sand crystals into a soft almost flour like powder. The beaches also exhibit a highly reflective quality about them created by the gold mica-like particles of the shells of a vast number of aquatic arthropod species as well as microscopic organisms, primarily the douradea species of algae, mixed in with the pearlescent particulate of offshore coral reefs. The combination of these particles gives the beaches there namesake by resembling gold powder. The rarest of the golden beaches are the black gold beaches of the equatorial regions. The sand has a heavy load of ancient volcanic silica. These are considered to be some of the most ancient exposed sands of the planet from a time long before the power of wind and the elements smoothed ancient mountains and volcanoes down to the current soft slopes, mesas and hills of the current geology.