SIERRA NEVADA GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN GOLD IN QUARTZ .92 GRAM GOLD MICROMOUNT

Description

NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN
from
SIERRA NEVADA MTNS. CALIFORNIA
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
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pecimen weight:
.92
G
ram -
14.2 G
rains
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ize:
13.1X9.5X4
mm
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his rich chip of gold and quartz hails from the Mother Lode mines. It's a strange breed indeed, a mix of quartz and the yellowest gold one could imagine. If you've got a decent VLF detector, this one really sings.
I'd be mighty pleased to find this on a nugget outing. It's always cool seeing high-purity Au poking out of otherwise unimpressive rock. The thickness of the gold concentration, the purity and beautiful character accounts for the price. It was my good luck to have acquired a small amount of this ore, so now I get to pass it on.
Finding rock with visible gold in it, when one considers the enormity of planet earth, is tough under the best of conditions. First off, you really need to go where the gold's at. On a walkabout in the Aussie outback, you could be surrounded by a thousand square miles of gold-bearing country. Chances of detecting nuggets within that vastness are reasonably- good, but that's Down Under for you. Conditions are far different in the U.S.'s lower forty eight states; but one thing always holds true. Mining districts where large amounts of gold have been produced in the past are good areas to focus today's search. The more found there, the better one's chances remain. This does not always hold true, but oftimes, it does. Old time prospectors lived in the bush and hunted gold leads pretty much non-stop. The object of their search were pay-streaks in gravel deposits and veins/lenses/pockets in hard country rock. Whenever a gold rush attracted hordes of inexperienced people from far away, the majority of the new seekers were novices, 'cheechakos' who knew little about gold or what comprised good prospecting country. Consequently, in their haste to reach the choicest (Name Brand) diggings being tapped elsewhere, they neglected to test ground on their way to where the mobs were, i.e. in the bustling Boom towns. In some parts of the world, this resulted in many veins, gold-bearing creeks, entire goldfields being completely overlooked.
Back in the 1980s when gold spot averaged around 0 per ounce, most of the miners I knew sold their finds for pretty much whatever they could get for it. If a pawn shop owner was your only option, this might have been 70% of spot or less if the gold was extremely low in purity. An ounce of gold really didn't buy much back in that era, nonetheless prospectors had to make do. In retrospect, I feel for miners of yesteryear. They had to work just as hard, in most cases harder, for an ounce of gold as miners in the field today many of whom have large excavators to move ground with and state-of-the-art metal detectors. But regardless of whether gold is worth , , 0, 00, or 00 per ounce, there's no such thing as an easy ounce.
All my GQ specimens show visible gold and are
authentic
gold quartz specimens.
I don't sell low grade ores. I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold quartz with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are hard to find and expensive to obtain.
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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 existing in the state of California.
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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PLATINUM ORE
Platinum never occurs in its pure state in nature but always alloys with varying quantities of the other platinum group metals (iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium and ruthenium) as well as gold, silver and iron. Primary native platinum forms cubic crystals, either singly or interpenetrant, sometimes gold-plated naturally. Most crystals currently available are from the Kondor Massif, Khabarovsk Region, Russian Far East. Because of its high specific gravity (14 to 22g/cm3 depending on admixtures), platinum also collects in secondary placers, forming water-worn nuggets. Such nuggets are found in the Choco River area of Colombia, Trinity River in California and the Tulameen River in Canada, amongst others.
This is how most platinum is mined, however. A large percentage of platinum ore mined around the globe comes from the Merensky Reef, Bushveld Complex, South Africa, one of the world's richest platinum mining areas. It would take over 9.5 tonnes of this ore to produce one ounce of platinum and 777.5 tonnes to produce an ounce of osmium. Similar deposits are found at the Stillwater Complex in Montana.
* For a short period of time back in the 1980s, I dredged Iridium flakes (Iridosmine) from a creek in Trinity County, California as well as one sizable platinum+dunite specimen from the Trinity River. Some years later, I was able to acquire platinum nuggets from the Choco River area of Colombia, gold-coated platinum crystals from Kondyor Massif, Siberia, and Platinum nuggets from the Tulameen River, B.C.
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