GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 2.17 GRAM NATURAL CALIFORNIA GOLD IN QUARTZ MICROMOUNT

Description: GOLD SPECIMEN in SILICATE (QUARTZ) from California, U.S.A. For collectors seeking specimen-grade GQ, whether you're scouring the hills or scoping out these ads, all indicators suggest someone's on the hunt for wild gold. Years spent looking for this wacky metal got me close to plenty. Problem was, it wouldn't accumulate. Show me a miner who's found too much gold, I'll show you 'a hole in the ground with a liar at the top'. This piece hails from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California. Featured specimen contains a nice exposure of VG (visible gold) inside a rust-filled vug at one end. My prices aren't based on how much gold there is but on the fact that it's there. Prospective mineral collectors can be assured you're buying the real Mccoy. Please check my feedback for disputes arising from non-authenticity issues. You won't find any. Prior to starting up this enterprise, I was a 'lone wolf' placer miner and rustic jewelry designer. Wherever gold and claims came together, you might have found me sluicing, panning, detecting, drywashing, or dredging. In the desert, pick-axes, rockhammers, and shovels (Georgia drag line) were essential tools of the trade. Of course, sluicers and drywashermen use brooms and buckets too. Many folks ask, "Gene, did you strike it rich?" I found nuggets, plenty of them, some weighing over two ounces. I hit short stretches of an ounce of gold a day. My best day of dry-washing produced 1/2 an ounce. I know. You've beaten the heck out of that. Good on you, mate! I never claimed to be the most successful miner in Gold World, but no one enjoyed the pursuit any more. Hardly any ex-gold miners can honestly say they struck it rich unless you count independent living as a measure of wealth. I did then and still do today. Did I strike it rich? No less than Croesus. Specimen weight: .2.17 Gram - 33.6 GrainsSize - 17X15.7X6.9 mm Ruler (if shown) is 1/4" wide (actual size). A U.S. 10 cent piece is often used to show size of the item for sale. FAST REFUND In case you're unhappy with this specimen, I offer a money back guarantee which includes your initial S&H. With regards to my gold quartz parcels, gold quartz specimens, slabs, and cabochon, I only deal in rocks containing VG (visible gold), not minerals or substances that appear to contain gold or that only assay gold. I think most of us interested in oro (Atomic symbol Au) would like to see authentic, native gold in their specimens; gold that was put there by nature's elemental forces, not by some man's hand. It's an aesthetic we share and that's what I sell - authentic, natural, gold quartz (with VG visible gold). 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 Combined shipping offered. For multiple item purchases, please request an invoice (from the seller) when you buy more than one item. U.S. BUYERS S & H is $4.00 (shipped with USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations). Combined shipping offered. ATTN: INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS INTNL. BUYERS S&H - $16.00 (via First Class Parcel) 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 resolved, return product within 30 days in 'as purchased' condition for a full refund (S & H included. For those who know the ups and downs of the precious metals market, this is a heck of a deal. Buy it and if the market drops dramatically in the next 30 days, you can return it for what you paid for it. That's a pretty cool insurance policy for precious metal buyers. I think most specimen buyers, however, are more interested in these rocks for their intrinsic beauty and collectability than they are for their gold content. NATIVE MINERALS 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. You won't find salted pay-dirt here, gold that wasn't washed int alluvium by nature. My idea of authentic pay-dirt isn't gold dropped from somebody's hand into a bucket or zip-lock bag of dirt; 'salted' in other words. I was a placer miner priding myself on being able to find a pay-streak. If I still had mining claims, any pay-dirt offered from them would be direct from the ground; untouched and unadulterated. Genuine pay-dirt shouldn't need extra gold tossed into it. GOSSANS AND IRON CAPS A vein that is made of harder rock will be less affected by erosion than the surrounding country rock. Conversely, a vein composed of softer material erodes faster than country rock and soon breaks the surface of the ground in a slight depression so that the vein appears much smaller than it actually is. An outcrop may be so eroded that a mass of 'rotten' decomposed rock will be the only indication of a vein. Such veins are often rich in gold. The outcrop material may contain considerable iron oxide, known commonly as 'rust', which gives it the well-known reddish brown color. The Cornish miners called this an Iron Cap, or Gossan. from Prospecting For Gold and Silver by Eros M. Savage Gossan is intensely oxidized, weathered or decomposed rock, usually the upper and exposed part of an ore deposit or mineral vein. In the classic gossan or iron cap all that remains is iron oxides and quartz often in the form of boxworks, quartz lined cavities retaining the shape of the dissolved ore minerals. In other cases quartz and iron oxides, limonite, goethite, and jarosite, exist as pseudomorphs replacing the pyrite and primary ore minerals. Frequently gossan appears as a red stain against the background rock and soil due to the abundance of oxidized iron and the gossan may be a topographic positive area due to the abundance of erosion resistant quartz and iron oxides. In the 19th and 20th centuries gossans were important guides to buried ore deposits used by prospectors in their quest for metal ores. An experienced prospector could read the clues in the structure of the gossans to determine the type of mineralization likely to be found below the iron cap Gold of Eldorado 3-10-13

Price: 30 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

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