RED PLANET GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .36 GRAM NATURAL GOLD AND 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:
6.3
G
rains (Troy) -
.4 G
ram
S
ize:
9.8X5.9X5.2
mm
H
ere's a rich pebble from one of California's many mining districts. High-purity precious metal glitters from within three distinct zones of this mini specimen. You get to see how metallic gold looks inside it's host vein-rock (quartz). This colorful matrix is unlike any other specimen-grade GQ I've seen.
I guarantee the included gold is the Real McCoy. It's not mica, pyrite, glistening rock (usually the result of poor photography) or other types of fools golds.
For many years, placer-mining was my full time occupation. When not actually mining, I was creating unique pieces of gold nugget jewelry with gold solder. Back then, the dream was to find a desert wash full of rocks like this. While it was never my good fortune to find one, but
maybe, some day, your chance will come. In gold country, there's always the possibility a person can stumble on some incredible bonanza even if they'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 myself, Gene Ralph)
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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 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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FOSSIL PLACER SPECIMEN w/SERPENTINE
In the mineral world, there's hardly anything prettier than raw, native gold straight from the earth. Through the years, I've been able to offer my Ebay clients an enormous variety of unusual specimens, most of them from the western U.S. and Canada. I recently sold my last remaining pebble of California fossil placer. At first, it seemed to resemble a caked, carbon-like aggregate. Numerous small placer flakes were embedded within and protruding from the rock. Studying it under magnification, I finally identified the host as small chips and pebbles of highly-serpentinized agglomerate. What struck me about this sediment wasn't just the 'free gold' but the predominance of pale and dark green metamorphic greenstone minerals. My source indicated it was from the southern Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California, in all liklihood, Tuolumne or Calaveras County. Occurrences like these are anomalies. My expectations of acquiring more material like it are nil. I've mined desert-placer conglomerates, gold locked up inside hard-packed, hydrated, red clays; gold cemented together with calcium carbonate caliche sediments, but in forty plus years mining, making nugget jewelry, and dealing with gold in general, I've never mined or seen paleo-placer quite like this one sample. The specimen was extremely fragile and required careful handling. The thought of working stratified beds/layers of bedrock placer gold this rich makes an old argonaut swoon. Today, with current gold prices, mining a single pay-streak containing material comparable to this might make a man rich. I've studied and worked enough placer ground to know these types of pay layers exist. I'm guessing many of the ancient Tertiary gravels within the Mother Lode and elsewhere contained phenomenally-rich deposits of fossil, hard-pan paleo placer. When you consider that during the 1800s gold rush era, a single miner might clean up 5 or 10 ounces a day using hand tools (i.e. mainly a pickaxe and shovel) this specimen is a testament to just how rich some of those placer deposits were. Any expert collector or geologist with placer mining expertise will understand what I am describing and appreciate such specimens as this.
A
t Gold of Eldorado, you find genuine, natural Gold quartz specimens or gold combined with other mineral matrices. All my specimens show visible gold (VG). That, to the true gold aficionado, can be worth more than raw bullion itself.
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