GYMPIE HIGH GRADE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .71 GRAM GOLD AND QUARTZ

Description: NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN from QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: .71 Grams - 11 Grains Size: 12.8X9.9X5.4 mm Intruded with precious metal, quartz become highly collectible. Now we've entered the mystical realm of GOLD! This is high grade ore. Miners don't often luck onto filthy-rich pockets, veins, isolated float rocks with visible gold in them. Some mines, however, like the Gympie-Eldorado in Queensland, contain massive vein systems flush with bonanza gold. High grade ore like this doesn't require a pocket lens or fire assays to confirm the presence of oro. No milling in a dolly pot and panning is necessary. The brilliant golden presence is easy to see; the product of naturally-occurring mineralization; mucked underground from a historic, eastern Australia hard-rock operation - the famed Gympie-Eldorado Mine located beneath the town of Gympie. I don't sell low grade gold ores. I sell naturally-occurring gold quartz ores 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 $19.00 FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you're not happy with this item) For years, I poured through old mining dumps with my pocket lens. Within the 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. 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 can seem easy. Having gold staring you in the face every day is really quite the luxury. Most small-scale artisanal miners will tell you a far different story. They reached the same conclusion I did long ago, i.e. "there's no easy ounces." That's the reality. Yet, having spent years in the trade prospecting the goldfields of North American, I honestly believe a person stands a better chance now than ever before of locating a minable gold deposit. 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, any man in survival mode does what he must. Jumping ahead, conditions couldn't be better for gold mining. All it takes is time, determination, the right tools, hard work, good luck, access to righteous claims or the right friend with good claims, and favorable mining regs that allow a prudent man to mine. Super-heated hydrothermal solutions, associated with volcanic activity, carry dissolved gold along with silica. Under intensely-high pressure, this aqueous mixture fills natural fissures and faults. Contact alteration zones act as interfaces between larger rock formations. Oftimes, contacts become the recipients of metals carried by the hot waters. Dissolved minerals like gold, silver, copper, lead, et al, as they cool, crystallize and harden into veins, sills, dikes, ledges, etc. The same principle applies to much larger geological formations. Contact zones are ideal areas for prospectors to hone in on. If canyons, creeks, rivers, arroyos, et al drain and carry alluvial material away from these contact zones, 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. CLIP ZONES Along the Hassayampa River, savvy prospectors knew about clip zones, i.e. the leading edges of river channels usually hidden from view higher up in the hills. These zones are something of an interface between barren, basement-rock formations down-slope and gold-bearing, alluvial formations higher up. These ancient river or creek channel fragments are also known as terraces, benches, or high bar deposits. They represent the remnants of meandering waterways from millenia long past. As cyclical flooding carries water and sediment down through mountain valleys, erosion carves new channels. Younger streams form while stretches of old ones and the rocks they carried are left behind, stranded high and dry. Break-lines on a topographic map represent different elevations within a mountain range and often outline the bends of ancient, meandering stream-beds. In stretches where older alluvial deposits remain, these contour lines on a topo act like signposts showing where remnant-formations reside. In many cases, gold-bearing pay-streaks are found buried within. Prior to 1919, whenever such formations were recognized, they often bore the impact of high-pressure water cannons. It was at that time the practice of large-scale hydraulic mining was banned. In most of Arizona's placer fields, however, this method of mining was rarely brought into play due mainly to scant water sources. Picture, if you will, what the land looked like one hundred thousand, a million, or 10 million years earlier. What is to say second, third, and fourth generation drainages did not carry substantial amounts of gold? If the original, auriferous lodes in a mountain range were deep-seated, they usually do. The age of regional geology and the extent of gold mineralization within may well determine the answer to this question. Deep exploration (think 'deep cleaning') will provide conclusive evidence of viable placer mining potential...or it won't. So extensive sampling is a must for 'gold is undisputably where you find it and nowhere else'. If you're in mining country, and there's a lot of untestedground before you, try to get a mental picture of where any old channel formations might be buried besides in the lowest-lying creeks or river bottoms. Hilly terrain may conceal a lot of potentially-rich, old channel deposits. Sometimes, clues are strewn about that an observant prospector can spot. One never knows. You could stumble onto a new placer site never before worked. Look for large, rounded, river rocks either still locked in place or else in transit gradually working their way downhill from a high terrace. Oftentimes, these will be seen concentrated in side ravines where detritus weathers down from upper elevations. If smooth, rounded rocks exist in these locales, they're a good sign that alluvium is eroding down from some old elevated channel. Study topographic maps or Google Earth. These help to spot the meandering bends of ancient rivers. The appearance of large magnetite or other iron nodules are promising indicators as well. The presence of abundant black sand, likewise, should not be ignored. If ground looks promising, test it with a sizable bulk-sampling if possible. My experience looking for such signs has put me onto good amounts of gold in places others chose to ignore. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 1-14-13

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Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-08-28T03:36:51.000Z

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