GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 1.87 GRAMS NATURAL AUSTRALIA LODE GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description: GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN from AUSTRALIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: 1.87 Gram - 29 Grains Size: 16.5X11.3X9.3 mm Here's a specimen ripped from an underground mine in Queensland, Australia. The white mineral is predominantly quartz. Oro can be seen exiting several zones in the rock. You won't need a pocket lens. If you're accustomed to seeing only a speck or two of Au, this specimen is actually fairly rich. The Gympie-Eldorado Mine is hidden beneath the town of Gympie. For those who've kept track of my store these past several years, you'll know I don't sell low-grade or simulated specimens. If it shows genuine VG (visible gold), it can't be low grade. I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold specimens. 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. 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) 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 found in 'the land down under', Australia. 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 Whether you're on the hunt for new, redeposited gold or exploring for virgin ground, it takes testing. The onis is on you, the prospector, to make that happen. If you're looking to mine dirt, sand, clay, caliche, any kind of loose aggregate gravel, and extract all the gold within, a gold pan remains one of your most valuable tools Wherever the goldfield, alluvial sediments need to be tested. A pan sample now and then won't cut it. Pay-streaks tend to be irregular. They meander. In some regions, they're found buried in strata at intermediate depths inside the bedded alluvial mass. Though rarely uniform, they do conform somewhat to the terrain or 'the lay of the land'. It's easy to miss one entirely. Extending your hole a foot to the left or right can land you smack dab on a hundred ounce lead. Incomplete sampling is the bane of the impatient prospector. Placer deposits can hide almost anywhere in the surrounding terrain. They're not always lodged at the bottom of a hydrologically-active creekbed. Oftimes, Mr. Gold's moving downhill in transit from one elevation to the next. Uprooted from it's original location which, perhaps, wasn't it's first stop even, gold's now washing further downstream looking for it's next resting place. Check out the massive, surficial gold deposits of Australia and the Bering Sea. In the outback, nuggets seem randomly scattered around the landscape. What rhyme or reason would cause such large masses of gold to be buried so close to the surface? I guess God did it so detectorists would be able to make some 'long green', eh. Much the same could be said for the enormous Bering Sea gold deposit. In other North American provinces, placer can be hidden in upper sedimentary strata as well as at lower levels. Research the famous blue leads of Canada's western provinces. I've seen stratified, auriferous, blue clays in the Monashee and the Cariboo where locals were pulling impressive amounts of oro. In desert country, including here in the states, expect to find surface placer as well as deeper deposits. It just depends on the character of the land, the lodes, and the placers spawned by them. Water, of course, plays a mammoth role in the dynamics of this ongoing erosional and sedimentary process. Moving northward into Canada and the western states, one encounters long river systems where seasonal flooding leaves behind rich surface redeposits on gravel bars. One wonders, if the ground pays this well close to the top, what would a prospector find down on bedrock at those sites? There's no set cut and dried rules about gold's many haunts. Only sampling can tell where it's at. Problem is, at many locations, there's no way to reach bedrock so it can be tested. I know. I worked beneath a six inch suction dredge for thirteen years. Dredgers in the Bering Sea rarely have to go more than three feet deep to be in gold. What a luxury, mate. If you're familiar with mountainous terrain and the enormity of canyon systems, you realize what a tall order comprehensive sampling is; much of the time, it's virtually impossible. Only operators outfitted with monster excavators, cats, front-end loaders, and such can open up those deep alluvial masses and test ground like that effectively. I'm referring, of course, to dry-land, above-water gravel deposits. If testing ground adjacent to active watersheds at the same elevation, good luck keeping water out of your dig. In geoexploration, little is certain without analysis and nothing comes easy in this business of finding gold. Generally, the best pay-dirt will be concentrated on, in, and just above bedrock of rivers and creek channels. In other regions, excellent flood gold re-deposits exist 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 present 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: 75 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-09-30T02:07:53.000Z

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