GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 1.41 GRAMS NATURAL CALIFORNIA GOLD IN QUARTZ MICROMOUNT

Description: GOLD SPECIMEN in SILICATE (QUARTZ) from California, U.S.A. Whether scouring the hills or scoping out ads, I suspect you're on the hunt for wild gold. Years spent looking for this villainous metal put me close to plenty of it. Problem was, it wouldn't move from the ground into my poke; never enough anyway. This piece hails from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California. Featured rock contains rich exposures of naturally-occurring gold. My prices aren't based on how much gold there is but on the fact that it's there. Prospective mineral collectors, rest 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 my e-business, I was a lone wolf placer miner and rustic gold-nugget jewelry designer. Wherever there was gold and claims, you might find me sluicing, panning, detecting, rocking, drywashing, or dredging. In the arid desert, pick-axes, rockhammers, and shovels (Georgia drag line) were my main tools. Desert miners also use brooms, buckets, and gold pans. A pocket lens along with a mortar and pestle come in handy too. Many folks ask, "Gene, did you strike it rich?" I found nuggets, lots of them, some over two ounces. While dredging, I hit short stretches of an ounce of gold a day. My best drywashing day produced 1/2 an ounce. I know. You've done much better. Good on you, mate! I know how happy that made you feel. I never claimed to be the best miner in the World, but no one enjoyed it any more than I did. 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? You be the judge. Specimen weight: 1.41 Gram - 21.8 GrainsSize - 18.4X11.1X6.6 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 that wasn't created 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 locate pay-streaks. If I still had mining claims, any pay-dirt offered from them would be direct from the ground; untouched and unadulterated in any other way. Genuine pay-dirt shouldn't need extra gold tossed into it. DESERT MINING When water is absent, there are two basic methods enabling a prospector to mine placer gold in the desert. Neither requires water to process gold-bearing gravel. Both are effective in arid conditions anywhere in the world. Between the two, drywashing and metal detecting, electronic prospecting is the more technologically-advanced. In all likelihood, MDers have discovered more large nuggets than all other mining methods combined. Metal detecting allows one person on foot to hunt virtually anywhere, to cover vast areas, search out individual pieces of gold, veins, pockets, artifacts, coins, et al. If a target is metallic, your detector will know. For many years now, they've been employed, especially in Australia’s outback, and account for an enormous number of giant slugs. Many variables determine whether or not your hunt for ‘wild gold’ will be successful. The most valuable thing to remember; one many of us, at times, chose to ignore is ‘go where the gold is’. An equally important lesson is ‘never give up’. Hunt until your belly grumbles, your canteen runs dry, your rock-hammer blunts, and your last set of batteries gives up the ghost. In places where serious gold exists, determination is key. Does every mining district contain a ton of gold? Well lets defuse that notion from the get-go. Most long-time miners can regale you with tales of futility and woe. Perhaps you're the exception to the rule; one of those men blessed with outstanding prospects in his inventory of claims to hunt. How sweet that must be! I wouldn't really know. Still, it matters not how good your claims are, how sophisticated your machinery, or how tenaceous a miner you are, the best detector can only pinpoint targets within reach. Individual particles of gold, unless they exist as exceptionally-large masses, need to be relatively-close to the surface. What exactly does ‘close to the surface’ mean? It means within reach of the electromagnetic signal transmitted through your detector’s coil. When I began prospecting for gold in the early 1980s, very few detector brands and models were capable of locating small, isolated bits of gold. Generally, these metallic targets had to be fairly close to the surface of the ground to be detectable. If the ground at that location was ‘hot’, as in 'heavily-mineralized', a detectorist was pretty much out of luck. The depth at which gold is buried remains a key factor in determining how well a metal detector can read it. So there remain times when a detector, no matter how advanced, won't be up to the task; times when electronics aren't the right tool, and regardless of how sophisticated or expensive your machine, gold-bearing strata, and targets within it, will be too deep to record. Even with minimally-mineralized ground, relatively-small metallic targets at say 2 feet depth or deeper won't, in all likelihood, register on most detectors. Enter the Dry-washer. Time and again, in remote, arid, desert mining provinces, this gold-separating device had proven itself. Many's the lone-wolf prospector of old who plopped gold in his poke using a ‘puffer belly’. At the end of the day, all the sweat, grime, toil, and hardship seem worthwhile seeing that nice pinch of virgin gold glittering in your pan. Who cares that you were forced to dig six feet down to find it? The extra effort just made the reward waiting at the bottom all the more satisfying. Of course, when nothing's there but leaverites or barren bedrock well, lets just say your passage of discovery proved ‘educational'. But whether or not objects of desire lurk beneath, no detectorist can answer that by waving magic wands across the surface of the ground. Scanning the top foot or two of sediment won't tell you what’s down lower. What recourse is there really but to start digging a hole? That was the only world known by the 1800s era prospector. Whether you decide to become a pro prospector or remain a recreational miner, by using a drywasher, once you've found it, you'll recover course gold and fine gold too. I was an avid practitioner for 18 years and loved it. I used it in both forested high country and desert low-lands. ‘Puffer-bellys’ i.e. bellows-type machines, can be found in every shape, size, and design imaginable. Many gold hunters skip the manufacturer’s brands and build their own prototypes instead. A 'puffer', built on any scale, is a portable, low maintenance contraption; easy to use, quick to set up and tear down, and very economical to operate. These can be engineered to operate with gas motors, electric motors, or no motor at all i.e. operated manually with pulley wheels or a lever; so, from the standpoint of extra weight packed into the bush on your back, designing/constructing one for manual operation is an excellent alternative. The increased portability factor is something every lone-burro prospector should maybe consider. Every adaptation seems to have it’s applications and advocates. Of the two types, bellows-type or vibrating, electrostatic type, the latter, properly set-up, is the more efficient at capturing fine gold. Pick your poison. Use the machine best suited to your needs and to your region’s sedimentary and climatic conditions. I’ve experienced the best and the worst each drywasher type offers in every conceivable ground condition. Gold of Eldorado 3-10-13

Price: 79 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2025-02-02T20:32:11.000Z

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