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2 GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMENS from QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA
For collectors of native gold, here's two (2) rich pieces of gold-impregnated bull quartz from eastern Australia. Both show minor pyrite and greenstone wall rock inclusions. No, you're not getting your money's worth in precious metal because these are specimens, not all-metal nuggets, coinage, jewelry, nor bullion. Host rock is included in the mix. Having mined gold for nineteen years, I guarantee their authenticity. Mini specimens hail from Queensland's Gympie-Eldorado Mine. Quartz veins are seldom uniform in richness. Once in a blue moon, a vein releases a bonanza pocket. There are prospectors who specialize in hunting these rich outcroppings. If you were to follow an exposed quartz vein across a hillside or canyon bottom, maybe one or two zones along that entire span might throw off a pocket of high-grade. Personally, if I were prospecting gold-rich country, you'd find me metal detecting every aspect of the vein I could reach. Once erosion removes this enriched-pocket material, the released gold might lie hidden in a pediment, desert drywash, hillside, or some creekbed directly beneath the pocket. Detectorists sometimes encounter these as nugget patches full of coarse eluvial placer, gold quartz specimen, maybe even crystalline gold much still with gangue attached. That's basically what we have here. Enriched pockets of lode gold generally 'pinch out', but occasionally, if a tunnel were driven deeper into the vein, more pockets might be encountered. Please check my feedback for any disputes arising from non-authenticity issues. There are none. Combined specimen weight: 1.16 Gram - 17.9 Grains (Troy) (both pieces together) Sizes - 8 & 9 mm long (each piece) Weight Conversions: S & H Combined shipping offered. For multiple item purchases, please request an invoice (from the seller) when you buy more than one item.
U.S. BUYERS
S & H is $4.00 (shipped via USPS with tracking to all U.S. destinations). Combined shipping offered. ATTN: NO INTERNATIONAL
PAYMENTS 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 un-turned 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 resolved, return product within 30 days in 'as purchased' condition for a full refund (S & H included. For those who know the ups and downs of the precious metals market, this is a heck of a deal. Buy it and if the market drops dramatically in the next 30 days, you can return it for what you paid for it. That's a pretty cool insurance policy for precious metal buyers. I think most specimen buyers, however, are more interested in these rocks for their intrinsic beauty and collectability than they are for their gold content.
GOLD-BLOODED MINER It’s been
my experience that finding a
little gold is almost as much fun as
finding a
lot. Making consistent pay, however, is high on
every serious miner's
wish list. Even though you may not recover much gold at first, hunting for this noble metal gets into your blood. Once bitten by 'the bug', the dreaded Gold Fever carries you off into never-never land. It's completely altered the paths taken by millions of miners looking to strike it rich. So perhaps you're new at this business. Maybe you're burned out from another occupation. You're weary of the grind; tired of wearing another man's collar. You long for adventure far from the grind of city life. Mining can be like living the dream. Once upon a time, I swung a real pick, not this 'silver one'. One of my songs, Alone In The Desert, tells the story of a lone-burro prospector chasing his elusive dream. For years, I felt like that guy. Despite the effort necessary to find any small bit of color, I was hooked. After a day of hiking the mountainsides, chucking rocks, and pounding on caliche beds, I prided myself in the callouses and bone-weariness. In time, I learned where gold liked to hide. Most often, it showed up where no one else thought to look. I reclaimed gold lost by the old timers; gold squandered inside winnowing piles or old drywasher tailings. I mined flood gold in river bars and creekbeds, found side pay and redeposited 'gut gold' in countless desert drywashes. I stumbled onto gold which had trickled down beneath rusted mining relics. More came from hydraulic races, below clip zones, and alongside 100 year old sluice box remains. Whether it's lost gold or virgin gold, gold is gold and finding it's a blast! You study abandoned workings or specific natural features scattered about the landscape - bends and river bars, boulder packs, red beds, black sands, bedrock, high terraces. Everything's a clue, an indicator, a trail showing where gold could still hide. The rolling, contoured topography of the land reads like a book. By spotting signs erosion etched into the terrain, nature leads you to your quarry. So how'd I do, you ask. Well, to be candid, I failed to hit any big bonanzas. Jackpots were small and everything taken from Ma Earth was wrestled from her by hand. No
heavy equipment, other than suction dredges, was employed. I stayed busy prospecting, searching out hot spots, recovering a few pennyweights or ounces here and there. Meanwhile, associates in the field unearthed incredible amounts of gold. I grew painfully envious. Much to their
credit, these were hard-charging, opportunistic miners; savvy, gifted finders of gold. They were maybe just a little more determined to reach that common goal. Admittedly, there's luck involved in this racket but still, "chance favors the prepared mind". Small-scale mining tends to be highly individualistic. Each miner/prospector achieves his or her
own successes and failures. They use their favorite, tried-and-proven tools and mining methods. Believe it or not, my favorite machine was a drywasher. Chasing the Golden Fleece, I came to believe a man's word counted for something. Amongst the men and women I've met who, like myself, pursued oro, many were scholars. Many others were everyday people - hard-working, helpful, and generous. Shedding one's humanity and forsaking intelligence, what have you worth having? It was thoughtful people who taught me life's most cherished lessons. In knowing integrity remains intact, we can stand tall anywhere in any crowd. No skulking about in the shadows of a dishonest, unscrupulous lifeway. If
a claim or property owner asks for 20% royalty and you agree to those terms, 20% is what they should get. One's word should be a bond, a promise that something will be done or given. Nowadays, we live in a radically different age. Cheats, shysters, crooks, frauds, flim-flam con men abound. The world has grown rife with disinformation and un-truth. Reading the news on world events, it seems ethics have lost their way in polite, civilized society. More and more seem attracted to 'the Darth' side. They take what they want with no qualms, no thought to the negative impact of their actions. They take what they want and to heck with anyone else. Which side of the moral/ethical spectrum attracts you? It's my belief one reaps what they sow. Chances are, in time, whoever lives
by the outlaw creed receives their just desserts. This isn't religion, it's decency, civility, and common sense. Integrity matters.
If there's one lesson about prospecting a guy who's
been there
might pass on,
it’s "go where the
gold is, not where it
isn't".
Lesson number two - "live an honorable
life." Gold of Eldorado 3-10-13
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2 GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMENS 1.16 GRAM QUEENSLAND GOLD AND QUARTZ
$70.0
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia