GOLD GANGUE SPECIMEN .39 GRAM NATURAL CALIFORNIA GOLD

Description: GOLD & SCHIST SPECIMEN from CALIFORNIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: .39 Gram - 6.1 Grains Size: 8.3X6.4X5.7 mm Here a rusty little rock, an oddly-altered duck with visible, crystalline gold showing. Th gangue has the appearance of brown schist, yet contains amber-like particles of quartz as well. Featured specimen was found in California's Mother Lode which, admittedly, is a vast region. I guarantee what looks like gold is gold; very high-purity at that. True gold-hounds will be pleased. For those who've kept track of my store these past several years, you'll know I don't sell low-grade specimens. If it shows real gold, it can't be low grade. I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold quartz ores with visible gold and other silicate/gold specimen. Occasionally, some form of metamorphic wall rock becomes a primary host for Au. These high-grade beauties are hard-won and expensive to boot. My prices aren't based upon the amount of gold contained, but upon the authenticity, rarity and collectability of these unique pieces of the famed California Mother Lode. U.S. SHIPPING - $4.00 (includes USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations) INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS S&H $15.00 FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you're not happy with this item) 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 S & H Discounted for combined shipments. U.S. BUYERS & INTNL. 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 unturned 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 VIRGIN PAY AND PLACER REDEPOSITS Whatever type of gold deposit, placer or lode, you're looking for, it takes testing, lots of it. The onis is on you, the prospector, to make that happen. Wherever the goldfield, sediments have to be sampled across their entire expanse whether it's in a creek-bed, river channel, dry-wash, alluvial fan, or on a pediment. A pan sample here and there isn't going to cut it. Pay-streaks meander. With lodes, the same rigorous testing regimen applies. One or two assays simply aren't enough to give a truly-comprehensive quantitative/qualitative picture of your ore body. In vertical gold country, a vein or old terrace can lie buried in plain sight, but at a higher elevation. Usually, placer's embedded on or close to bedrock or false bedrock, but that's not always the case. Be thorough. Incomplete sampling is the bane of the inept prospector. A deposit could be hiding about any place imaginable. An auriferous vein might transect, cut across the entire canyon buried from sight beneath boo coo alluvium. With placer, once-static gold may be in transit, slowly moving downhill, leap-frogging from one elevation to the next; one stage, one plateau at a time. In desert country, expect to find surface placer as well as deeply-buried deposits in close proximity to one another. Water erosion is the chief transporting vehicle causing gold to wander about the landscape. Heaven knows our planet's seeing a tremendous amount of erosion these days. Problem is, the immediate results are often catastrophic for humans. In Canada and the western states, massive river systems experience annual seasonal flooding which leave behind good redeposits of gold in gravel bars. One always wonders, if a redeposit is this good near the surface, what's lying down on bedrock at those sites? Problem is, it would take forever to reach bedrock and you certainly couldn't do it using hand methods. I excavated gravel with a six inch dredge for years. As effective as it was for working shallow-gravel deposits, that sucker hardly made a dent on a twenty foot deep mass of stratified alluvium. If you're familiar with mountainous terrain, you know what a tall order sampling is. Most of the time, it's nigh impossible. Only operators outfitted with monster excavators, cats, front-end loaders, and such can open up large alluvial masses to test the ground beneath. Here, I'm referring, of course, to dry-land, above-the-water-table deposits. If you're attempting to test ground adjacent to active watersheds, good luck keeping the water out. Rest assured little is assured or comes easy in this business. The general rule is: the best pay-dirt will be concentrated on, in, and just above bedrock of old and new river channels. This's not to say ‘pay’ can’t be found in other stratified layers higher up in the sedimentary column. The famous ‘blue leads’ of British Columbia and the Yukon remain classic examples. In many instances, excellent flood gold re-deposits are encountered in the uppermost strata of the most recently-deposited stream/river gravels. Anything goes in desert and pediment-type deposits. In drier climes and areas where shallow-seated lode deposits continue to shed gold, placer gold is found lying very close to the surface. These represent readily-available targets to MDers hunting the many dry regions of the world. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 1-14-13

Price: 28 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-10-27T23:40:05.000Z

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