OXIDIZED GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 1.66 GRAM NATURAL GOLD AND QUARTZ SPECIMEN

Description

NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN
from the
MOTHER LODE
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
25.7
G
rains (Troy) -
1.66
G
ram
S
ize:
15.9X12.1X7.9
mm
C
heck out this stained quartz pebble from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. Popping out of the interior at one corner is a showy-exposure of gold. A good deal of darker iron oxidation and ironcap shows coating much of the rock's surface. I guarantee the gold inclusions are the real deal.
Through the years, lots of interesting rocks have come my way. Here's one more I get to pass along.
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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 vein systems sourcing the immense placer deposits of the Sierra Nevada Mtns, the famed Mother Lode.
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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THE JOURNEY THAT COUNTS
Back in 'the day', California's Trinity River country welcomed a suction dredging community of small-scale miners. Dredging was legal and wildly popular around the state. Government had yet to regulate small-scale mining out of existence. For two centuries, California supported the mining industry and vice versa. Historically, California gold had created prosperity, opportunity, and fortunes for argonauts and venture capitalists alike. Vast amounts of wealth passed from the streams and hillsides of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Shasta-Trinity Alps into San Francisco and Sacramento bank vaults. This was the foundational-wealth upon which the future empire known as California and the entire western U.S. was built.
During the 1980s, gold fever still ran rampant in the U.S. western mining districts. Folks, quite naturally, hoped gold would return to the 00 an ounce range so maybe they could reap some benefit, for a change, from a volatile, ever-changing market. Of course, now gold is over 00 and you can't mine it except with 'hands and pans'. This restriction is ludicrous. Be that as it may, back in the spring of 1985, I made a decision to try my hand dredging in the Shasta-Trinity Alps country. At that time, a sizable band of miners lived along the main river in close proximity to one another and to the gold deposits which remained. It didn't take long to realize that miners gathered there were part of a larger fraternity with one common goal in mind, to find gold, the more the better. As I was soon to learn, there were benefits in belonging to the mining brotherhood. Members of our collective were keen to support
their fellow miners and most of us enjoyed a good party. When some dredging outfit needed logistical support, whoever was available would lend a helping hand. Word would get out and pretty soon, we had a good-sized work party on site. As a collective, most of us got along really well. Many locals not actively-involved in mining enjoyed the presence of miners. We poured considerable revenue into local economies and residents seemed amenable to this colorful cast of characters gathered there along the river. This receptive, helpful attitude flies in the face of what we see today in our country.  Forces both known and unknown have created division and enmity between us. My experiences are, of course, unique to a different era for in the 1980s, most California miners I knew conducted themselves very well. We behaved as good neighbors and civic-minded citizens should all the while infusing a bit of old wild west color into the region. This included a collective desire for law and order to prevail. As a result, when desperadoes and various disruptive elements slunk into town causing trouble, we had one another's backs. In essence, we acted like a protective society which extended to friends throughout the community. My, how times have changed. They ban mining in California and now everyone's afraid of something or someone all the time. Congratulations. Well done, big brother.
Thanks for checking out our digs. Stop in some time for a bowl of stew and a brew.
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ldorado
8-13-17