GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .5 GRAMS CALFORNIA NATURAL WHITE QUARTZ AND GOLD

Description: NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN from CALIFORNIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: 7.8 Grains (Troy) - .5 Grams Size: 12.1X11.4X4 mm Check out this fresh listing. Small wonder folks follow the Golden Fleece. Seeing unions of gold and quartz, one understands the attraction. It's smaller than many rocks you see in this category. Unlike those monster leaverites perched atop page one, this one doesn't disappoint. It shows genuine gold; gold that's naturally-occurring. Oro (Au) and silicon dioxide (quartz) crystallize inside fissures, faults, and cracks to form gold veins. In many mining districts, rich chunks of rock and gold vein material break off and slowly begin their downhill descent. Eventually, they may travel great distances from their sources. Considering the Mother Lode's range and enormity, most likely the vein this specimen originated from was (or is) part of that auriferous belt. No, you won't get your money's worth in Au. That's because you're purchasing a specimen, not bullion, not coinage nor jewelry. This rock contains visible gold injected there naturally, not by some human hand. U.S. SHIPPING - $4.00 (shipped via 1st Class) INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS S&H $16.00 FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you're not happy with this item). Contact me indicating you wish to return the item. As soon as it's received by me and everything's as it should be, you'll be issued a refund. I poured through old mining dumps for years looking at orange-yellow-rusty rock through a loupe, but I never found a piece with visible gold. Hydrothermal solutions carrying gold and silica crystallized into veins of gold quartz. This specimen comes from one of the many vein systems sourcing the immense placer deposits of the Sierra Nevada Mtns, the famed Mother Lode. Weight Conversions: 15.43 GRAINS = 1 GRAM 31.103 GRAMS = 1 TROY OUNCE 24 GRAINS = 1 PENNYWEIGHT (DWT) 20 DWT = 1 TROY OUNCE 480 GRAINS = 1 TROY OUNCE S&H Discounted for combined shipments. PAYMENTS For U.S. buyers: We accept paypal For intnl. customers: We accept paypal. Pay securely with www.paypal. Payment must be made within 7 days from close of auction. We ship as soon as funds clear. If you have questions, please ask them before bidding. REFUNDS We leave no stones un-turned insuring our customers get what they bargained for. If you're not satisfied with this item, contact me. Then, if the problem can't be fixed, return product within 30 days in 'as purchased' condition for a full refund Check any and all Gold of Eldorado feedback for disputes arising from non-authenticity of the specimens I sell. You won't find any. I deal in native minerals with visible gold, not replicas, not 'paint ons'. I don't peddle 'simulated' specimens made with minute amounts of gold or no real gold at all. No fake nuggets here, folks. I've personally bought stuff with gold painted on it. Also purchased here have been 'natural gold quartz' specimens with tiny chunks of placer glued into vugs. All of my advertised specimens, slabs, cabochons, gold ores et al are authentic and contain native gold and/or are composed almost entirely of gold (i.e. gold nuggets, gold flakes, wire gold specimens). The purity of this gold will vary, but if it's from California, you can count on the percentage being high, an est. 80 to 90% pure. For comparision, a 14K gold wedding band is 58% pure gold. The origin of this rich specimen is, perhaps, an undiscovered vein somewhere in the Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California. UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH GOLD If it's placer you're after, sediments will be your focus and figuring out where the golden strata resides. More often than not, you'll leave an area frustrated because no matter how much gold exists nearby won't matter if you can't open up the more promising pay zones to test them. When I talk about access and it's connotations, there are more than a few. Deep gravels, vegetation-covered bars, tree-root tangled creek-banks, enormous boulder packs, alluvial fans a hundred feet deep, high terraces running back into the mountainside...all these deflate the befuddled prospector before he even gets started. X-ray vision could enable you to know where gold was in hiding, but you still have to get paydirt from the ground into your pan or washplant. Not that gold isn't sometimes found at or near the surface, it's just that ordinarily, it's not. It comes from the earth’s interior or crust, briefly rises to the exterior, then, after a few million more years, heads back into the depths. Along the way, the earth's skin provides plenty of hiding spots for man's favorite metal. One time, I watched a friend from where he was sitting reach down and pick up a seven pennyweight nugget. That's all he needed to do; look down, spot something unusual on the ground and pick it up. Ralph walked down the ridge to where I was working and asks, “Gene, is this gold.” Wild, huh? No detecting, no digging needed. He just sits down, starts jaw- jacking with this dumb bunny working his butt off, reaches down and picks up a big slug of gold. There's usually no rhyme or reason for how and why lightning bolts of luck happen to an individual. I worked this same district hard for three winters never managing anything larger than a two pennyweighter. Go figure. Generally, gold is buried beneath millions of other leaverites. Prospecting, identifying where the gold is; that's your first step; a durned important one at that. If you follow the earth's signposts i.e. rock formations, elevation changes, boulder packs, clay beds, bedrock undulations, black sand concentrations, twists and bends in a drainage, after a while, you'll realize there's correlations between where gold settled and the topographic features scattered about. After extensive testing of alluvial stratigraphic provinces, a guy starts to figure things out. It's all elementary. Other times, you might find gold and be clueless how it came to be there. If sampling indicates gold's presence, at some point, heavy equipment might be warranted in order for serious mining to commence in earnest. On many claims, heavy equipment is essential to conduct even the most preliminary tests. On other claims, especially shallow gravel claims, hand sampling and followup mining may get the job done. Someone once told me "to be a good prospector, you gotta have the eye of an eagle and be able to dig like a gopher." They said a mouthful there. Then there are times when all it takes is an eyeball and 'the luck of the Irish'. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 8-13-17

Price: 29 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-10-20T19:24:36.000Z

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