CLASSIC WIRE GOLD NUGGET .82 GRAM NATIVE ARIZONA GOLD

Description: WIRE GOLD NUGGET SPECIMEN from SW ARIZONA U.S.A Gold At slightly over 1/2 Dwt., this little glob is a serious clinker; the kind that'll disturb molecules at the bottom of your thin, glass vial. Featured nugget is a piece of folded-up wire gold, part of a discrete placer which had broken off a ledge of quartzsite. The deposit then fanned out across an alluvial pediment below the isolated outcropping of quartz stringers and lenses. I tested all across the upthrust ridge, a distance of perhaps 500 meters. Copper and iron mineralization showed up in other chip and float samples, but wire gold surfaced at this one location only; perhaps where a fold occurred in the shale and quartzsite country rock. What struck me the most was the striking character of the oro. Preexisting claims had lapsed, so sensing some potential, I staked four twenty acre lodes initially and later, an association placer. Most nuggets were chased, embossed with lines, or wrapped into tightly-packed balls of wire. Examining this bulbous slug close up, you'll see the characteristics of Rams Horn gold with hooked ends on the compacted, curled-up tentacles. Some nuggets resembled numbers and letters of the alphabet. Considering how close this piece was to it's source, it's hard to imagine how erosion caused it to be so deformed. Many nuggets were locked up in caliche (cemented calcium carbonate). To release them, I broke them out of these old marine sediments. A small crust of that same limy substance still cakes this nugget. I thought it was removed thirty years ago. You earn every speck of gold you find breaking up caliche with a pickaxe. In places, my claims contained excellent gold, some practically right at the surface, the rest in clay layers just above shale bedrock, and the rest in that caliche false bedrock. A guy really had no choice but to whack it with a pickaxe. I wouldn't recommend bludgeoning this kind of tough ground with an aluminum type. Having mined for nineteen years, I guarantee the provenance of this Au. Featured specimen comes from Arizona's Dome Rock Mtns. in La Paz, County. Quartz veins are seldom uniform in richness. Once in a blue moon, someone stumbles onto a bonanza pocket. A handful of miners specialize in pocket-hunting. If you were to trace an exposed quartz vein around some desolate mountainside, a few lenses along that span might yield specimen-grade gold, some remaining at it's source. If erosion removed that pocket gold away from it's source, maybe it's now hiding in a pediment directly beneath the blowout. Sometimes, detectorists encounter nugget patches ripe for the picking - full of eluvial, crystalline gold. That's basically what we have here. You could say this nugget shows no signs of weathering or, that it shows every indication of wear and tear. Now that you know it's origin, take your pick. It's a personal find. Enriched pockets of hard rock gold generally 'pinch out', but occasionally, more pockets are encountered by excavating deeper into the vein/ledge/lenses. Please check my feedback for any disputes arising from non-authenticity issues. There are none. Specimen weight: .82 Gram - 12.66 GrainsSize - 5.9X4.7X4 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, nuggets, slabs, or cabochon, I only deal in rocks (and nuggets) containing naturally-occurring and always visible gold. Most of us interested in oro (Atomic symbol Au) like to see authentic, native gold in their specimens; gold that was put there by nature, elemental forces, not by some man's hand. It's an aesthetic we share and that's what I sell - authentic 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 via USPS with tracking to all U.S. destinations). Combined shipping offered. ATTN: INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS INTNL. BUYERS S&H - $16.00 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. GOLD-BLOODED MINERIt’s been my experience that finding a little gold is almost as much fun as finding a lot. Making consistent pay, however, remains high on every serious miner's wish list. This hunt for shiny yellow metal gets in a person's blood. If you've grown tired working the grid, yearn for freedom from another man's collar, you might consider striking out for the goldfields. It can be like living the dream. Back when I swung a real pick, not this silver one, the life of a practicing argonaut suited me well. I enjoyed the individualism. When I embarked on a mining enterprise, it was because I wanted to, not because a boss sent me. Despite the effort it took to find one shiny little nugget, I got hooked on the hard work. Outlook makes all the difference in this business. Following a day of rock chucking, I took pride in my callouses. They were hard-earned. I learned where gold liked to hide and loved finding it where no one else had thought to look. Tracing leads down through a meandering drywash or creekbed is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. Specific features, how the landscape's contoured and carved give solid clues, evidence of where gold lies hidden under the earth's skin. By reading signs etched into terrain over time by erosion, nature steers you to your quarry. While I failed to hit any big bonanzas or monster nuggets, I found decent color in several districts - 10 to 20 oz seasons and nuggets over 2 oz. This was all hand work. No heavy equipment was used other than 5" and 6" suction dredges. Meanwhile, associates were recovering incredible sums of gold. Much to their credit, they were hard-charging, opportunistic prospectors and miners; savvy gold hunters determined to reach rich ground or die trying. Small-scale mining is highly individualistic. Each miner/prospector achieves their own successes or failures. While pursuing my own successful brand, I came to believe a man's word should count for something. In keeping it, one could stand tall amongst his peers anywhere he chose to walk. There was no skulking in the shadows of mistrust where one's integrity was concerned. If a claim or property owner asked for 20% royalty and you agreed to those terms, 20% is what they got. One's word should be a bond, a promise that something will be done or given. Nowadays, it seems we're living in a time when ethical principles are on a downward spiral. Maybe I'm reading too much negativism from the daily newsfeed which is nothing very newsworthy at all. Mostly, it amounts to mud-slinging from both sides and every peripheral side imaginable. Personally, I believe in a democratic form of government however imperfect that form usually turns out to be. All I really know for sure is that if you're the kind of person who takes whatever he wants with no thought or consideration for how that conduct effects himself and others, I believe one truly reaps what they sow. Chances are, in time, anyone living by the outlaw creed receives their just desserts. Integrity matters. If there's one lesson about prospecting a guy who's been there might pass on, it’s "go where the gold is, not where it isn't". Lesson number two - "seek happiness and fulfillment through living an honorable life." Gold of Eldorado 3-10-13

Price: 175 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2025-01-23T19:05:01.000Z

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