RICH OXIDIZED GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 4.57 GRAM NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ REDUCED

Description

NATIVE GOLD SPECIMEN
from
CALIFORNIA
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
70.5
G
rains (Troy) -
4.57 G
ram
S
ize:
18.8X14.5X9.2
mm
C
heck out this rich, glitzy rock from the California mines. Here, see how the metallic mineral gold looks inside it's vein filling.
From stem to stern, a thick maze of golden stringers breaks through to the surface along the entire length of rock. Judging from the gold's color, it's very high in purity. I guarantee the inclusions of metal are the real deal. Nobody glued it there. Much of one whole side shows rusty caprock. If you like gold in it's rawest form, wait 'til you see this one through a pocket lens.
All my specimens show visible gold and are
authentic
gold nuggets or gold quartz specimens.
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(If, for any reason, you're not happy with this item). Contact me indicating you wish to return the item. As soon as it's received by me and everything's as it should be, you'll be issued a refund.
I poured through old mining dumps for years looking at orange-yellow-rusty rock through a loupe, but I never found a piece with visible gold.
Hydrothermal solutions carrying gold and silica crystallized into veins of gold quartz thus creating the extensive deposits found in the Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California, U.S.A.
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
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MAGNETITE
MAN
During one of our expeditions into the La Paz County outback, a U.S. retired-Marine buddy, trusting what he thought was a partner's prospecting savvy, helped me stake out some claims near Quartzsite, Arizona. Within adjacent mining districts of the Dome Rock Mountains, coarse gold was still being recovered in canyon systems to the east, west, and to the south. Where I had chosen to stake our claims, local geology consisted of schist, quartzsite, and granite with contact alteration zones in spades. Farrar Gulch, where the largest nuggets found in the entire region had been unearthed, lay a short half mile to the west. Overall, the rock formations of this mining district
looked identical to those in adjoining gold-bearing districts. Conditions, in fact, seemed very promising, so my enthusiasm was running high. We were literally surrounded by gold, so why shouldn't there be gold here?
Quartz outcroppings adorned the mountainsides like painted-white graffiti reading "Gold! Come and get me!" Boulders of oxidized quartz float and nodules of magnetite lay scattered all around us especially concentrated in local washes and arroyos. Our prize claims, for some unknown reason, had lapsed. I thought to myself, "man, this is gonna be good." I mean, how lucky can a guy get? Packing my dry-washer up the main canyon, we made numerous test runs in likely-looking drop zones where placer should have been. As we began sampling, black sand spilled off the end of my drywasher tray and expectations were running high. Finished with test runs, we poured our concentrator box contents into a gold pan. At this point, one of us should have exclaimed "wow"! Since this experience is being recounted thirty some odd years further up the road, I'm guessing my pard and I looked at one another with quiet resignation, shook our heads in disappointment, and began packing up our gear.
The sad truth is, not one solitary pin-prick of gold had found it's way into our riffles; nothing but piles of magnetite sands, aka 'black sands'. We just figured "what's the use kicking a dead horse?" Doesn't it seem to hold that failures teach the most valuable lessons? There's only one thing which demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that a mining claim contains good gold and that's 'yeller', not black sand, glistening in your pan. So when someone tells you, "gold is only found where there is black sand", take it with a grain of salt and do not discontinue testing.
LAW OF THE YUKON
"From my ruthless throne, I have ruled alone
for a million years and a day;
Hugging my mighty treasure,
waiting for man to come;
Till he swept like a turbid torrent,
and after him swept - the scum".
Words of
Robert Service
Thanks for checking out our digs.
G
old of
E
ldorado
8-13-17