STAINED GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 7.2 GRAMS NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ For Sale

NATIVE GOLD QUARTZSPECIMENfromCALIFORNIARuler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.Specimen weight: 111.6 Grains (Troy) - 7.2 Grams Size: 21.3X18.3X14.3 mm
Check out this fresh listing. Small wonder folks follow the Golden Fleece. Seeing this union of gold and quartz, one appreciates the lure. It's smaller than many rocks you see in this category. Unlike most monster leaverites ('leave it right there') always perched atop page one, this one doesn't disappoint. It doesn't have golden aspirations, this one actually shows VG i.e. visible gold. You'll also see some reddish stain lining it's vugs. This one also reads pretty good on my metal detector. 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 descent. Eventually, the can travel great distances from their individual 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 shows visible gold placed there naturally, not by some human hand.
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I poured through old mining dumps for years looking atorange-yellow-rustyrock through a loupe, but I neverfound a piece with visible gold.Hydrothermal solutions carrying gold and silica crystallizedintoveins of goldquartz.This specimencomes fromone of the manyvein systemssourcingthe immense placer deposits of theSierra Nevada Mtns, the famedMother Lode. Weight Conversions: 15.43 GRAINS = 1 GRAM31.103 GRAMS = 1 TROY OUNCE24 GRAINS = 1 PENNYWEIGHT (DWT) 20 DWT = 1 TROY OUNCE480 GRAINS = 1 TROY OUNCES&H
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Checkanyand all Gold of Eldorado response for disputesarisingfrom non-authenticity of the specimens I sell. You won't find any.Ideal in nativeminerals with visible gold, notreplicas, not'paint ons'.I don'tpeddle 'simulated' specimens madewith minute amounts of gold or no real gold at all. No fake nuggets here, folks. I've personallybought stuff with gold painted on it. Also purchased here have been 'natural gold quartz'specimens withtiny chunks of placer glued into vugs.All of my advertised specimens,slabs, cabochons, gold oreset alare authentic and containnative gold and/orare composedalmost entirelyof 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 onthe percentage being high, an est. 80 to 90% pure. For comparision,a 14Kgold wedding band is 58% pure gold.Theorigin of this rich specimen is, perhaps, an undiscoveredveinsomewhere in theSierraNevadaMtns. ofCalifornia.UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH GOLD
If it's placer you're after, sedimentary ground 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 in the vicinity, it won't matter if you can't open up the more promising areas to test them. Do you see what I'm saying when I talk access and it's many connotations? Deep gravels, vegetation-covered bars, tree-root tangled creek-banks, enormous boulder packs, alluvial fans a hundred feet deep, and high terraces running back into the mountainside defeat the besieged prospector before he even gets started. With X-ray vision allowing a person to see where the gold is, you still have to figure out a way to get paydirt clear of the ground. Not that gold isn't occasionally found at the surface, it's just that ordinarily, it's not. It comes from the earth’s interior, so, as it journeys back to her depths, she provides plenty of hiding spots for her favorite metal.
One time, I watched a friend from right 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. He walked down the ridge to whereI was working and asks, “Gene, is this gold.” Crazy, huh? No detecting, no digging required. You just sit down, start idly jaw-jacking with another dummy working his butt off, and pick up a big nugget. There's no rhyme or reason for how and why these lightning bolts of luck happen to certain individuals. I worked this district hard for three winters and never managed more than a two pennyweight nugget. Go figure.Generally, gold is buried beneath millions of other leaverites. Prospecting, identifying where the gold is; that's your first objective; a durned important one at that. If you follow the earth's signposts i.e. rock formations, elevation changes, boulder packs, clay beds, black sand concentrations (and trails), twists and bends in a drainage (both high and low), after a while, you'll realize correlations exist between where gold settles and topographical features scattered across the landscape. After extensive testing of stratigraphic zones, maybe you'll start to figure things out. Other times, you might find gold with no clue how or why it came to be there. If sampling indicates the presence of gold, at some point, heavy equipment might be needed for serious mining to commence in earnest. On many claims, heavy equipment is essential to perform even the most preliminary testing. 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.

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