CALIFORNIA GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .53 GRAM NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ

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:
8.3
G
rains (Troy) -
.53 G
ram
S
ize:
11.3X8.3X4.9
mm
H
ere's a small pebble from one of California's mining districts. Particles of gold and larger patches of precious metal glitter from much of this specimen. Here, you can see how metallic gold looks with vein filling (quartz) attached.
This is practically the last of it's kind and it's unlikely I'll be getting more. I guarantee the included gold crystals are the Real McCoy. They're not mica, pyrite, or other fools golds.
Back when placer-mining was a full time job, the dream was some day to find a desert wash full of rocks like this. It never happened, but it occasionally does happen to others.
Maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones. There's always the chance of finding a bonanza even when you're not looking for one. "Some men go searching for rivers of gold. Write about their busy lives as the stories unfold." (from Rivers of Gold by Gene Ralph)
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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 and created the massive geothermal, hot-springs deposits found in Nevada. This specimen comes from one of the many gold deposits discovered in The Silver State of Nevada, 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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BLACK
GOLD
During an expedition into the La Paz County hills, my partner and I hoofed it up a remote canyon to stake out claims. It seemed like the perfect setup. In adjacent mining districts, regions to the east, west, and south held proven placer ground. Where our claims were being staked, geology consisted of schist, quartzsite, granite, and rhyolite dikes with contact alteration zones in spades. Overall, rock formations here in our district
looked very similar to rocks found in adjoining districts where rich gold deposits had occurred. Conditions looked very promising, in fact, so my enthusiasm was running sky-high. We were literally surrounded by gold.
Quartz outcroppings adorned the mountainsides like painted-white graffiti. Boulders of oxidized quartz float along with nodules of magnetite lay strewn everywhere. Washes and arroyos were, in fact, overflowing with concentrated iron ores. Our prize claims had lapsed and I couldn't help thinking, "man, this is gonna be good." Packing my drywasher up the main canyon, we made numerous test runs in likely-looking drop zones where placer should be concentrated. As we began sampling, black sand spilled off the end of my drywasher tray. With expectations running high, we poured our concentrator box contents into the gold pan. Since this experience is being recounted thirty some odd years further up the road, I'm guessing, after panning it out, Larry 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 figured there was little sense 'kicking a dead horse'. Doesn't it seem to hold water that failures teach us the most valuable lessons? There's only one thing which demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that a mining claim harbors good gold; that is 'yeller', not black sand, filling up your pan.
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
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old of
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ldorado
8-13-17