RICH GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 2.44 GRAM NATURAL CALIFORNIA GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description

GOLD QUARTZ
from
CALIFORNIA
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
2.44
G
ram -
37.6
G
rains
S
ize:
14.4X10.9X9.5
mm
Q
uartz is one of the most common minerals on the planet. Go down to the ocean beach and what do you see? Sand...millions upon millions of cubic yards of it a high percentage of which is comprised of quartz. Most folks don't immediately think of quartz as being the original residence of gold, however, where massive placer gold deposits occur, quartz veins usually source most of that 'free gold' being released into the environment. Most lucky rock containing gold is white or off-white in color. That surely is the case with this splendidly, rich specimen. It bristles with high-purity precious metal. My source indicates it's from the goldfields of California. Y
our collection will be livened up with this glimmering rock.
For those who've kept track of my store these past several years, you'll know I don't sell low-grade specimens because if it shows gold, it can't be low grade ore.
I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold quartz ores with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are hard to find and expensive to obtain. My prices are not based upon the amount of gold contained, but upon the authenticity, rarity and collectability of these unique specimens.
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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 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
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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 PLACER AND REDEPOSITS
Finding placer redeposits or virgin ground that will pay takes testing - lots of testing. The onis is on you, the prospector, to make that assessment, thus the reference to 'assessment work' after locating a claim. Wherever the goldfield, sediments must be sampled for gold content across their entire width, especially close to bedrock, whether in a creek-bottom, river, dry-wash, alluvial fan, or pediment. A pan sample now and then isn't going to cut it. Pay-streaks meander. They're notoriously irregular, discontinuous, and hard to find. Another factor one should consider is that a person can't read the undulations on bedrock covered with gravel. This is important because pay-streaks often relate to these undulations, i.e. dips, rises, up-thrust protrusions of bedrock. The larger, higher the protrusion, the bigger the paystreak. I know this to be a fact. These high points create eddies and voila! The gold gets slung into this quiet water where it drops out to rest. You catch my drift, right? This also holds true for the placement of gold behind massive boulders and dikes of country rock jutting out into a streambed. When testing any drainage, it's very easy to miss a pay-streak entirely even though one exists. Incomplete sampling is the bane of the befuddled prospector. Don't think placer gold deposits are only confined to material on or close to bedrock. This is especially true in the case of desert placers and massive river systems where regular, seasonal flooding can leave behind serious redeposits of gold just beneath the surface. You always have to wonder, if a redeposit is this good on the surface, what would a guy find at those same sites down on bedrock? Of course, there's not a way in hades you could ever reach bedrock at those locations. I dredged with a six inch dredge for years. That frail little barge hardly makes a dent on a twenty foot deep mass of alluvium. If you're familiar with mountainous terrain, you realize what a tall order comprehensive sampling is, an impossible task in many cases. The linear and vertical scale encountered in canyon-lands makes for impossible testing conditions due to the sheer volume of gravels at any given locality. Only operators loaded for bear outfitted with monster excavators, cats, front-end loaders, and such can open up and test such ground effectively. Here, I'm referring, of course, to dry-land, above-the-water-table gravel deposits. Even then, nothing is assured. The general rule is that the best pay-dirt will be concentrated on, in, and just above the bedrock of old river channels. This is not to say good ‘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.
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