WHEATY GQ GOLD QUARTZ CABOCHON 10 CARATS PRECIOUS GEMS For Sale

CALIFORNIACABOCHONWHEAT GQGOLD & QUARTZ Welcome to the Gold of Eldorado!The parent sourcing this cab was cut from material found in California\'s Mother Lode. It\'s collector stone; meaning, it originated at one specific geological site and, quite possibly, nowhere else. A well-crafted, solid GQ cab mounted inside any karat gold setting adds worth. This wheat-colored cab represents an aesthetically-superior gemstone anyone should be proud to wear. While other precious gems, chiefly the clear ones, have their admirers and applications, gold quartz stands apart.Gem-grade GQ isasrare, precious, and beautiful a mineral complex as youwill find on the planet.It\'s such a shame seeing relatively cheap-looking stones mounted inside otherwise elegant, precious metal rings. Two primary colors, amber and wheat, embellish this cab\'s lusciously-rich matrix. If you\'re drawn to GQ from the western U.S. goldfields, maybe you\'re feeling the attraction. The top, show face is domed, the back side flat.As sole proprietor/operator of my store, I\'ve been selling native gold and platinum products here for roughly ten years. Back in the 80s and 90s, I was a full-time placer-miner. There\'s just something about hunting for (and working with) the elusive yellow metal known as gold. For one thing, any normal (or abnormal) person can venture into the hills and dig for precious metal hunt with a realistic chance of being successful. Believe me, finding a good-sized nugget never fails to be exciting. As you stroll through my store, expect to find plenty of useful prospecting information and stories based on my own goldfield experiences. If you don\'t know much about gold, gold ores/gold quartz, lapidary,gemology,mineralogy, geology, or mining for gold; if you don\'t care for jewelry at all, justbuy andcachethis beautiful rock shot full of gleaming precious metal. GQ or \'gold quartz\' is, basically, gold ore. When ore is rich and aesthetic enough, it becomes desirable as jewelry-grade gemstone. For hundreds of years, jewelers have been incorporating it into spectacular, karat-gold, works of art. Almost any kind of rockcan be cut and made into a cab, but GQ is a different mineral altogether because it carries the precious cargo, gold.You would not wish tocrush this type ofstone just to extract the gold. That would be like crushing gem grade diamond to use as an abrasive!Weight: 31Grains (Troy) - 10Carats Dimensions:17.2mm (long) X 12.5mm (wide) X 4.8 mm (thick)If you\'re unfamiliar with gold quartz, it\'s essentially gold ore...high-grade gold ore. When conditions are just right,metallic gold-crystals form (grow)in quartz veins. This occurs as ultra-hot, aqueous, silica and mineral-rich solutions cool.Metals, like gold, than precipitate and harden. This is part of a process known as metallogenesis. Naturalweathering fromricher portions of a gold vein ultimately produce broken-off pieces of gold quartz, nuggets, gold flakes, flour gold, and colloidial gold. Vein filling whichretainshost matrix(that is,quartz)and alsoharborsit\'s precious cargo,gold,andisdense enough, becomesone of theearth\'s more highly-prizedgemstones. Then, just toliven things up a bit, the mineral characteristics of gold-bearing stone vary from vein tovein resulting in differentmatrix variations (i.e. color, density, et al). This stone is an outstanding example of what I\'ve just described. The photo is an enlarged representation of the gold rock.Ruler, ifshown, is 1/4\" wide (actual size)If you have any questions, pleaseaskthem prior to offerding. 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&HU.S. BUYERS - S & H $12.00 (shipped via Priority box)
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PAYMENTSFor U.S. buyers: We accept paypalFor intnl. customers: We accept paypal. Pay securely with [link removed by ].Payment must be made within 7 daysfrom close of sale. We ship as soon as funds clear. If you have questions, please ask them before offerding.REFUNDSWe leave no stones unturned insuring our customersget whatthey bargained for.If you\'re not satisfied with thisitem, contact me.Then, if we can\'tcome up with a solutionto our problem,return item within 30 daysin \'aspurchased\'conditionfora refund.NATIVE MINERALS 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 was a professional placer miner myself and personally have bought stuff with gold painted on it. Some so-called\'natural gold quartz\'specimens acquired had tiny chunks of placer goldgluedinto the vugs of barren rock. If folks want to fake their specimens, then it should be mandatory they advertise their products as simulations or replications. All of my advertised specimens,slabs, cabochons, gold oreset alare authentic and containnaturally-occurring, native gold and/orare composedalmost entirelyof naturally-occurring 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 it being fairly high, from 70% to 90% pure on average. For comparision,a 14Kgold wedding band is 58% pure gold.Theorigin of thisgemstoneis a veinsystem somewhere in theSierraNevadaMtns. ofCalifornia.Thanks forchecking out our digs. I hope you find rich ground ahead. Gold ofEldorado 1-7-17