GOLD QUARTZ SHALE SPECIMEN .86 GRAM NATURAL CALIFORNIA GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description

CALIFORNIA GOLD  QUARTZ+SHALE SPECIMEN
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
.86
G
ram -
13.4
G
rains (Troy)
S
ize:
15.7X10.9X6
mm
If you're looking for out-of-the-ordinary GOLD specimens, check this one out. It's backed by a plate of gun-metal grey/black shale. Laid on top of this is the dark, smoky quartz where a vein or lens contacted wall rock. The gold zone situated at one end, encompassing an area roughly 5X7 in size, is very cool. Note the size and weight. My source says it's from California's Mother Lode. I suspect Tuolumne or Calaveras Cty. The Sierra Nevada Mtns. are famed for their large number of small, hard-rock mines. The gold contained in this ultra-rare pebble looks to be quite pure and is easily visible to the naked eye. You won't need a pocket lens.
For those who've kept track of my store, you'll know I don't sell low-grade specimens. For one thing, if it shows gold, it can't be low grade ore. These specimens aren't priced according to how much gold is contained, but on the fact that it's actually there.
I deal in authentic, naturally-occurring ores with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are hard to find and expensive to obtain. Prices aren't based upon the amount of gold contained, but upon the authenticity, rarity, and collectability of these unique pieces.
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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 of California, The Golden State.
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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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
CHASING COLOR
Since the beginning of this enterprise,
I viewed my experiences chasing color in the western U.S.
and British Columbia goldfields as extremely advantageous.
Seemingly, lots of other dealers appear
inexperienced in the gold prospecting and/or mining arenas. Either that or they're just unwilling to share
what they know. Each to his own. Past ventures afield detecting, drywashing, sluicing, and dredging lent a certain degree of expertise to my own gold marketing aspirations
. This amounted to a ton of information I was happy and willing to pass along. That's when I opened up this Ebay store. Yet, prior to that, those
prospecting ventures I mentioned gave me special insight into gold
born from years of digging, shoveling dirt, crawling around on hands and knees swinging a rockhammer, under-cutting banks,
chucking rocks and freezing my
you know what off underwater in a myriad of creek and river-bottoms.
Combined with these actual mining exploits and adding to my accumulation of knowledge were years living in close proximity to
and surrounded by snowbirds; fellow prospectors, rock-hounds, nature-lovers,
and assorted artist-types many of whom were following their
own elusive dreams whether it be jewelry-making or digging fossils, agates,
thunder eggs, gemstones, gold, et al. Many vendors I met dealt in
specialty wares, antiquities,
hand-crafted artwork, and beads; minerals and goods imported from or mined all
over the world. If you've not been to Quartzsite,
that's some of what you'll discover in the Arizona outback. It was very rough-cut and primitive back in the early 1980s. In some ways, very rustic, as can be attested to by the countless colorful characters I met who inhabited the local digs.
I've really appreciated all my wonderful customers these past 20 years here on Ebay. While mining for gold was the owl's hoot,
it's folks like you who make mining miners almost as much fun as actually mining.
Thanks for checking out our digs.
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1-14-13