BLOOD RICH OXIDIZED GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 2.15 GRAM CALIFORNIA GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description

GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN
from CALIFORNIA
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
2.15
G
ram -
33.2
G
rains
S
ize:
15.5X11.3X95.3
mm
W
hy do men go searching for gold? To find slugs like this.  Imagine running your detector over ground no one's hunted before. You get a reading and start digging frantically through compacted, almost brick-hard red dirt or white caliche. Finally, your target is free of the ground and isolated. Picking up dirt from your excavated pile, you run one fistful after another over the coil until finally the moment of truth arrives. The signal reads positive but then all the other junk you sorted through today read positive too. Then...finally! The weight is a give-away. You thought it would never happen, but after hours of futile digging, you finally found something worth bragging about.
Reddish oxidation or 'blood' is caked up on part of the quartz of this medium, finger-nail size specimen. It actually shows quite a bit of oro. Reading on my 'Bug' is frisky. What a dandy micromount.
A guy has to wonder what possesses anyone to melt such glorious specimens down. Yet, in the old days, miners usually did. Back then, I suppose, there was no such thing as 'specimen value'. Everything was 'melt value'. Dealers didn't pay for rock, they were after bullion...raw gold, free of gangue, the purer, the better. With some gold dealers, things remain very much that way. Why pay for rock, eh? To my way of thinking, the combination of natural gold and quartz is the best prize of all. Each ore seems so unique and distinct from the rest. My source tells me this slug came from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. He wouldn't reveal from where. Can't say as I blame him. I mined for eighteen years and know a little something about folks jumping into a honey hole you worked so hard to find. G-r-r-r!
I don't sell low grade gold ores. I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold quartz with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are hard to find and expensive to obtain. My prices aren't based on the amount of gold contained, but upon the authenticity, rarity and collectability of these unique specimens.
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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. This specimen comes from one of the many gold-bearing vein systems filling the State of California.
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
Discounted for combined shipments.
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If you're not satisfied with this item, contact me. Then, if the problem can't be fixed, return product within 30 days in  'as purchased' condition for a full refund
STORIES FROM THE GOLDFIELDS
Dreams of making a big strike never factored into my own hunt for wild gold. There's a lot more about prospecting than just getting rich. After three years in the bush, I had found around six ounces of gold and had few illusions about ever getting rich from mining. A guy tends to get used to whatever degree of success he's grown used to. What I found plenty of was independence, a freedom factor one could never hang a price tag on. In the mountains, you're dancing with
danger constantly. Yet,
why fear perils of the natural world? Cities are murderous and urban life probably a lot less safe. A man learns to adapt to life in the remote, rugged, outdoors or he doesn't. Native indigenous people were accomplished nomads and survivalists. The Indians knew how to live off the land. They instinctively understood flora and fauna, warmth and cold, fire and ice, the four seasons. They reaped the bounty of the land naturally and with respect. Most white prospectors nowadays use various tools from our modern, industrialized age and that's fine if it helps you live comfortably and find more gold. Having been a digger for eighteen years, there's no way to count how many times I've been skunked, disappointed, ready to quit.
Like most guys, I craved companionship, laughing with friends, a cold brew, a soft, warm bed. Honestly, it was those moments when I made do with basics like pickaxes and shovels, firepits, like my own two feet hiking along a rocky trail through the mountains, like opening a can of beans or roasting a rabbit over wood coals. Most people who leave something to pursue gold quickly learn 'there's no easy ounces.' Yet, while you may not hit a lot of glory-holes, there are few better pursuits than prospecting. W
orking the wide open spaces every day, I came to know serenity and contentment. Surrounded by
nature, full of hope, chasing an elusive dream, I imposed my will on life. Turns out it was an excellent choice...a most-gratifying lifeway. The prospector in pursuit of gold label fit me like a glove. There's no feeling in the world quite like the one you get when you find gold in some desolate
place where no one else thought to look.   credit - G. Ralph
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