RED PLANET GOLD NUGGET PLUS QUARTZ SPECIMEN .86 GRAM

Description: NATIVE GOLD SPECIMEN from CALIFORNIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: 13.3 Grains (Troy) - .86 Gram (metric) Size: 7.4X6.2X5.3 mm Here's a rich specimen from one of California's mining districts. Some pink quartz is contained within, but it's mostly high-purity precious metal. With this little slug, you'll see how metallic gold looks with it's host vein-rock attached. The matrix/gangue is unlike any other GQ I've seen. Gold contrasting with this type of oxidized quartz looks very cool. I guarantee it's the Real McCoy, not mica, pyrite, glistening rock (usually the result of light reflection) or some other type of fools golds. She rips on the old 'bug'. For many years, placer-mining was my trade. When not mining, I was making unique pieces of nugget jewelry using gold solder and stock gold wire. Back then, the dream was to find a wash full of quartz and gold slugs like this one. That quest was never realized, but I managed to find plenty of nuggets. In gold country, there's always the chance a prospector, or anyone really, might stumble on some incredible bonanza. U.S. SHIPPING - $4.00 ( includes USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations) 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 California, U.S.A. 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 FOSSIL PLACER SPECIMEN w/SERPENTINE In the mineral world, there's hardly anything to rival raw, native gold straight from the earth. Through the years, I've offered clients a wide array of exotic specimens. Most have been found in the western U.S. and Canada. Recently, I sold my last remaining pebble of California fossil placer. It was, basically, a large chunk of aggregate rock filled with placer gold. That was one 'hot rock'. You could identify flakes of gold protruding from every angle, many of them packed next to one another. Through magnification, I was finally able to identify the host. You could see small, highly-serpentinized chips and pebbles making up the agglomerate. What struck me about this odd host wasn't how much free gold there was, but rather the predominance of pale and dark green metamorphic greenstone-schist minerals all locked up together en masse. It came from the southern Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California, in all likelihood, Tuolumne or Calaveras County. Such occurrences are true anomalies. Any hopes of acquiring more material like it, sadly, have grown dim. Having mined desert conglomerates like hard-packed, hydrated, red clays or caliche beds cemented together by sand, country-rock pebbles, and calcium carbonate, in forty plus years mining and dealing with specimen gold, I had never mined or seen paleo-placer quite like this greenstone sample. The aggregate was fragile and required care in handling. The very thought of working beds/layers of bedrock placer this rich makes an old argonaut swoon. Today, with current gold spot, mining a pay-streak made from material like what I've described could make a man rich. I've studied and worked enough ground to know these phenomenally-rich leads exist. Undoubtedly, many ancient Tertiary gravels scattered throughout the Mother Lode and elsewhere contained hard-pan, fossilized, paleo placer. I've read of similar deposits up near the Yukon. When one considers that during the mid-1800s era, a single miner during the 1949 Gold Rush might clean up 5 to 10 ounces a day using only hand tools (i.e. mainly, a pickaxe and shovel), this specimen is a testament to just how rich some of those deposits were. Any collector or geologist with placer mining expertise will understand what I've described and should appreciate such specimens. At Gold of Eldorado, you find genuine, natural Gold quartz specimens, cabs, nuggets, or gold combined with other mineral matrices. All my specimens show visible gold (VG). That, to the true aficionado, can be worth more than raw bullion itself. LAW OF THE YUKON "From my ruthless throne, I have ruled alone for a million years and a day;Hugging my mighty treasure, waiting for man to come; Till he swept like a turbid torrent, and after him swept - the scum". Words of Robert Service Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 8-13-17

Price: 125 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

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