CLASSIC GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 3 GRAMS GOLD WITH QUARTZ

Description: NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ from AUSTRALIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: 46.3 Grains (Troy) - 3 Grams Size: 19.3X12.8X11.3 mm Here's a chunk of white quartz ripe with gold. It hails from eastern Australia in the state of Queensland. Specimen displays little weathering or deformation. The gold itself is high in purity. Gold found as placer shows considerable weathering. This one doesn't. That's because it came from an underground hard rock mine, the Gympie-Eldorado. Embryonic gold is often associated with silicon dioxide (quartz) and found crystallized inside it. Sometimes, other minerals accompany gold. All my specimens show visible gold and are authentic gold nuggets or gold matrix specimens. U.S. SHIPPING $4.00 (includes USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations) INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS S&H $16.00 FAST REFUND OFFERED (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 never found a solitary piece with visible gold in it. 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. PAYMENTS For U.S. buyers: We accept paypal For intnl. customers: We accept paypal. Pay securely with www.paypal. Payment must be made within 7 days from close of auction. We ship as soon as funds clear. If you have questions, please ask them before bidding. 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 fixed, return product within 30 days in 'as purchased' condition for a full refund CLEANED-OUT CLAIMSConsidering the large number of prospectors who scoured the western hills, chances of finding an untapped reserve of easy-to-mine gold aren't so hot. Suffice to say shallow gravel deposits have always given up their riches without much difficulty, however, any gold which remained could add up to a handsome payday once it reached some miner's pocket. Deep deposits are considerably more problematic to mine. Of the many claims I've worked to one degree or another, it was rare not to scare up a little gold somewhere. Due to inefficient mining methods, lost gold is usually found in old tailings piles. Fine tails carry it and, if you're in big gold country, over-sized ones do as well. Losses occur just as readily today as they did a hundred years ago. By making adjustments, fine-tuning recovery and classification systems, gold losses should be reduced considerably. Sediments that were already mined sometimes can be reprocessed at a profit due to today's dramatic increase in gold's value. "Gold is undisputably where you find it and nowhere else!" A nice re-concentration of values can accumulate during a hundred and fifty year interval. There could be 150 years of repeating flood cycles involved in that particular drainage. Maybe it's been that long since miners from another era worked the local deposits. Long periods of weathering account for surprisingly-rich redeposits forming in washes, creeks, and river bottoms. For what it's worth, modern day mining and prospecting methods haven't improved much in terms of efficiency. Drywashers are just drywashers. The principles enabling them to recover gold haven't changed much since the old days. A modern plastic sluice box by any other name is still just a sluice box. Some gold will be flushed out of any box if too large a head of water is allowed to flow through it. Poorly designed riffles account for more lost gold as will the wrong type of carpeting. By the same token, gold introduced into any drywasher can easily bounce over poorly-designed riffles. A recovery tray set too steeply accounts for more lost gold. Various systems built for separating gold from gravel all depend on the same principles they did a hundred years ago. Many times, I've found strips of un-worked side channel running alongside gold-bearing washes or creeks. Side pay can lie at approximately the same elevation as the main drainage i.e. the 'gut' previously worked by old timers. Side pay can also be found as high bar deposits aka terraces or upper benches. As the name implies, these rest at higher elevations alongside creeks, drywashes, rivers, arroyos, canyons, et al. They represent ancient terraces hidden alongside water-sheds. In heavily-worked placer-mining districts, evidence of high bar deposits are usually evident as old hydraulic cuts and hand diggings. Whether you're a seasoned sourdough or only a tinhorn, a cheechako, there's nothing quite like working virgin ground. Finding an untapped deposit represents one's best chance for finding bonanza gold. Just imagine how much money a person can make today by mining an ounce of gold. Witness the thousands of ounces being mined by TV's Gold Rush miners. Most of the gold they mine comes from virgin ground. To be honest, I've not had many chances to work such crazy-rich gravel; but I've seen virgin ground on a few occasions. I also know that in certain districts, enormous volumes of it still exist, and believe me, being allowed to work material like that for any length of time would be the cat's meow. During intervening years, intermittent high waters continue to erode creeks and riverbanks. Turbulent waters at flood stage cut through old tailings, abandoned diggings, and, possibly, virgin clip zones. A violent gulley-washer can dramatically rearrange sediments in some desert wash or canyon. That's how new gold gets flushed down and is re-concentrated. It's been born out by personal observation that lost gold from yesteryear still replenishes watersheds. Be advised that many times, this may not be a significant amount of gold. It just depends. Finding traces here and there isn't going to cut it for big operators, but it might be enough to satisfy 'the itch' for many a small-scale, artisanal, or recreational miner. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 8-13-17

Price: 100 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-12-06T06:20:33.000Z

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