GYMPIE ROSE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .67 GRAM GOLD AND QUARTZ

Description: NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ from QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: .67 Grams - 10.38 Grains Size: 12.2X8.3X3.7 mm Intruded with precious metal, quartz become highly collectible. Now, you've entered the mystical realm of GOLD! Here's a real odd duck from Down Under. It's particles of natural quartz all held together with what looks like Black Hills Gold, a brand of jewelry which once was very popular. Picture three different shades of gold combined into a highly-ornate piece of jewelry. You have gold color, rose or ruby-colored metal, and copper-colored gold. It's wild and completely natural, just as found, laying perhaps in the dump of an old mine. Miners don't often luck onto filthy-rich pockets, veins, or isolated float rocks with gold visible to the naked eye. Some mines like the Gympie-Eldorado, however, contained massive vein systems, ore bodies brimming with bonanza ore. Here, gold's presence is obvious; the product of naturally-occurring mineralization. I don't sell low grade ores. I sell naturally-occurring gold quartz with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are expensive to acquire and even harder to find. Prices aren't based on the amount of gold, but on the authenticity, rarity and collectibility of 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) For years, I poured through old mining dumps with a hand lens. Within countless rock piles, I observed every color of the rainbow; white, orange, yellow, red rust, black, burnt, cindery-looking rocks. Anything that looked promising was examined. In all that time, I never found one solitary piece with visible gold in it. That still seems remarkable given the law of averages and the sheer number of rocks involved. Granted, when you're blessed with a rich claim to work, finding gold may seem rather easy. Having gold stare you in the face every day is quite a luxury. Most small-scale artisanal miners will tell a far different story. They long ago reached the same conclusion I did, i.e. "there's no easy ounces." That's the reality. Yet, having spent years in the trade and in the goldfields of North America, I honestly believe a person stands a better chance today than he ever did before of locating a decent deposit of gold. With $2600 per oz gold, you might even be able to make it pay. Twenty five years ago, no one forsaw gold prices increasing by six or seven times. Knowing that, who in their right mind would have sold their finds? Problem is, when your beans play out, a man does what a man must. Jumping ahead, conditions couldn't be better for gold mining. All it takes is time, the right tools, hard work, determination, good luck, access to good claims, and favorable mining regs which will allow a prudent man to mine his claim. Typically in a metamorphic-volcanic environment, super-heated hydrothermal solutions, associated with volcanic activity, carry dissolved gold along with silica. Under extreme pressure, this aqueous mixture fills fissures and faults in major rock formations. These contact alteration zones are interfaces between larger geological components. Contacts act like conduits for assorted minerals and metals. Dissolved minerals like gold, silver, copper, lead, as they cool, crystallize and harden, along with quartz, forming veins, sills, dikes, ledges, leads et al. The same principle applies to even larger porous formations especially carbonates, jasperoids and other sedimentary rocks. Contact zones are ideal areas for prospectors to hone in on. If canyons, creeks, rivers, arroyos, et al drain contact zones and carry alluvial material away from them, a prospector/miner may be in business. 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. COLORADO RIVER POTHOLES At the eastern end of Laguna Dam, about ten miles northeast of Yuma, lie the Arizona Potholes. Here, masses of black schist, gneiss, granite, andesite, and rhyolite rise steeply for 250 feet above the Colorado River. Inside Mittry Lake, a small reservoir impounded behind the dam, a raft-like island of pink volcanic rhyolite rises up from the placid waters. The geology of the surrounding terrain is extremely diverse. I scrambled all over this district for twenty years finding small deposits of placer on both sides of a rhyolite dike. About two miles south sits a small, pink, mountain peak. This is Sugarloaf, a collapsed volcanic caldera composed of rhyolite. That tells me a little something about the gold's source. Small, discrete deposits of placer extend even out onto the island. Possibly eons before people arrived, the region's lodes had been breaking down. Freed-up gold washed down onto pediments and then into canyons, ravines, and smaller drywashes. Similar geological formations along the Colorado River's north shore also produced placer deposits in forming the California Potholes. Both of these north and south placer fields were extensively-mined. Over time, elevated 'potholes' came into existence by erosion and down-cutting water. This gold rested atop granite, rhyolite, gneiss, and schist bedrock. While I was never able to amass much gold from these Arizona and California locales, I did find some beautiful nuggets up to 12 pennyweights in size. Drywashing was my preferred method of extraction. Driving south along the Gila Gravity Canal, at the southern-most end of the Laguna Mountains, you find yourself approaching the Gila River floodplain. Across this relatively-narrow strip of irrigated farmland, the northern tip of the Gila Mountains can be seen rising up from the river-bottom. If you turn off Rte 95 and drive a few miles east, a gravel road takes you to the old gold rush ghost town of Gila City. Here's a new area for recreational prospectors to explore. To the west of Yuma are the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. Regional washes near the old town of Tumco and the American Girl Mine continue to produce a bit of placer gold. Somewhat in-between here and the California Potholes but in a northerly direction, is Picacho Peak, another famous district where considerable gold mining occurred. A large-scale mining operation in recent years has pretty much eradicated any sign of the old placer diggings which were prominent back in the early 1980s. Yuma's regional mining districts offer a fun playground for the novice gold-mining aficionado. Researching a little deeper discloses several more gold districts throughout this portion of the Arizona desert. Unfortunately, many of these promising provinces lie on Military Proving Grounds, in Game Refuges, or on Colorado River Indian reservation land. Although you're rarely, if ever, assured of finding gold, your chances are still pretty fair in the old wild west. It's always advisable to investigate the claim status of land in mining districts open to mineral entry. When you see old mine workings and lots of claim markers, there's a good chance the land is under claim. The Yuma county B.L.M. office is the place to find mining claim status as well as information on lands open to mineral entry in Arizona. One possible shortcut which might help avoid much of the run around connected with finding a place to work recreationally is to join a gold-mining club with valid claims. Fortunately, I had the run of the Laguna Mtns. This gave me ample room for prospecting to my heart’s content. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 1-14-13

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