B.C. SERPENTINE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ MICROMOUNT 1.9 GRAM

Description

CANADIAN
GOLD QUARTZ
SPECIMEN
from British Columbia
F
or fans of gold, there's hardly anything prettier than raw, native gold straight from the earth. For true gold purists, whether you're scrambling around the hills on foot or scanning online sites here on a keypad, here's a unique piece found in the wilds of British Columbia. Researching North American gold occurrences, you'll note the term 'greenstone' mentioned. Oddly enough, in my years of prospecting our west coast states and British Columbia, I never encountered a solitary speck of gold associated directly with greenstone. Well, that changed when a Canadian contact agreed to part with this strange-looking ore. Featured rock consists of a thin plate of dark-green siliceous greenstone. Embedded inside a scaly-looking crust covering one side are hundreds of minute, yet visible gold crystals. These fill a zone which measures roughly 13X9 mm. It's a piece bound to spice up anyone's collection. Back when I mined full-time,
finding a 'bragging rock' like this on a ledge would have made my season. If you've hunted for gold in the field or just mined with a 'silver-pick', you know how rare an incidence this is. My source indicates the specimen hails from British Columbia, Canada. The precise mining district of origin is unknown. My prices aren't based on how much gold is contained but on the fact that it's actually there, REAL GOLD, not your fool's variety.
For prospective mineral collectors, rest assured you've got the real Mccoy. Please check my feedback for any disputes arising from non-authenticity issues. You won't find any.
For eighteen years prior to starting up this business, I was a 'lone wolf', small-scale placer miner. Wherever there was gold, running water available, and a claim to work, I dredged, sluiced, panned, and used a rocker-box. In the arid, water-less desert, standard tools were a pick-axe, shovel, rock hammer, broom, bucket, canteen, mortar, pocket lens, gold pan, rocker-box, dry-washer, and metal detector. Transportation to and from was provided by my reliable, old Econoline or on foot. Many folks ask, "did you strike it rich"? Well, I found lots of nuggets, some over two ounces. I even hit short stretches of an ounce of gold a day. During my more productive seasons, there was hardly a nugget found. What I recovered was practically all fine gold and amalgam. H
ardly any ex-gold miners can truthfully say they struck it rich unless you count independent living as a measure of wealth. I do and I did.
Now some folks will argue that miners release Mercury into the environment. I contend modern-day dredgers remove it because in many of the hardest-worked, historically-productive regions, the old timers used Mercury unsparingly to load up riffles in their sluice boxes. In this manner, a great deal of 'quick' was released into the watershed and remain within 'hundred-year-deposits' found today as sedimentary gravels lying closest to the surface of a stream-bed. Use of Mercury to line the riffles of sluice-boxes is no longer practiced by any placer miners I have ever known or heard of. Nonetheless, you will find it difficult to convince or persuade somebody who doesn't like mining or miners; someone whose mind has been made up contrary to the hard, actual facts of the matter. Yet, miners are a pretty hard-headed bunch in their own right
S
pecimen weight:
1.9
G
ram -
29.5
G
rains
S
ize -
27.8X18.5X4.8
mm
R
uler (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
I
n
case you're unhappy with this specimen, I offer a money back guarantee which includes your initial S&H.
W
ith 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
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Combined shipping offered.
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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
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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. Nor will you find any salted pay-dirt here that wasn't created by nature. My idea of authentic pay-dirt is not gold dropped from a man's hand into a bucket or zip-lock bag of dirt; 'salted' in other words. I was a professional placer miner priding myself on being able to locate pay-streaks both in the form of virgin pay-packs and redeposits. If I still had mining claims, any pay-dirt offered from them would be direct from the ground and the original deposit where found unadulterated in any other way. Real good pay-dirt should not need to have extra gold tossed into it.
I've personally bought specimens that had gold painted on them. I've bought so-called 'natural gold quartz' specimens with tiny chunks of placer gold glued into the vugs. All of my advertised specimens, slabs, cabochons, nuggets, gold ores (or 'paydirt', if offered) are authentic and contain naturally-occurring, native gold and/or are composed almost entirely of 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 the percentage being fairly high, say from 70% to 95% pure. For comparision, a 14K gold wedding band is 58% pure gold.
B.C. MINING ADVENTURE
Relative to 2015-2020 prices, gold wasn't worth much back in 1985; considerably less than 0 per oz. That summer, a snowbird friend from B.C. steered me up north where he introduced me to one of his Vernon cronies,
a friendly Canuck who'd been working his
remote mining lease in the Canadian bush. Fortunately, he didn't mind an American prospector camped close-by, hanging out, digging a bit of dirt, helping out now and then.
I was happy to assist him with his operation and he allowed me to run a small high-banker upstream from his large wash plant. Unaided by mechanized excavating equipment, it was impossible for me to access richer formations in the main creek bottom where most of the gold was known to be. Despite limited choices of where to work, after a bit of prospecting, I was able to locate decent color in an old channel remnant suspended alongside a road cut. With trusty pick-axe, I commenced hacking pay-dirt from the high terrace. Loading it into a wheel-barrel, I would cart my 'pay' down to an aluminum 'long-tom' and run it through. After a couple of weeks, I managed to pull around an ounce of Canadian yellow with some nuggets up to a pennyweight in size. Revisiting photos taken at the site, I realize now the ground I was in was actually very rich. At the time, it seemed a pittance
compared with the kind of reserves we eventually located upstream on his remote lease.
So, for a couple of months, I helped my Canuck buddy sample untested formations on his lease. After five years prospecting a variety of placer mining districts, I felt fairly confident in my ability to locate gold-bearing deposits; so, with rocker box, gold pan, and his D555 CAT, we began sampling further up towards the headwaters of the drainage.
Ten to twelve feet of overburden isn't much of a problem for a good backhoe operator, so things got exciting once we reached virgin ground in a stretch of unexplored channel adjacent to old diggings running through 'the gut' of the creek-bottom. What I wouldn't give to have a claim like that today.
G
old of
E
ldorado
3-10-13