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GOLD in SILICATE (QUARTZ) SPECIMEN
from California, U.S.A. Whether scouring the hills or scoping out ads, you're on the hunt for wild gold. With prices at historical levels, I mean why not be? Years spent looking for the elusive metal got me close to plenty. Problem was, it wouldn't accumulate in my poke; never enough anyway. This rich micromount-size specimen hails from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California. I've done no photo-doctoring. Hopefully, my photos show how stunning this gold truly is. My prices aren't based on how much gold there is but on the fact that it's there. Prospective mineral collectors, rest assured you're buying the real Mccoy. Please check my feedback for disputes arising from non-authenticity issues. You won't find any. Prior to starting up my e-business, I was a lone wolf placer miner and nugget jewelry designer. Wherever there was gold and claims, you might have found me camped down by the river sluicing, panning, detecting, rocking, drywashing, or dredging. Drywashing, by the way, works anywhere you can find dry dirt. In the arid desert, pick-axes, rockhammers, and shovels (Georgia drag line) were my primary tools. Many folks ask, "Gene, did you strike it rich?" I found nuggets, lots, some over two ounces. While dredging, I hit short stretches of an ounce of gold a day. My best day drywashing produced 1/2 an ounce. If you're hooked on watching miners all around the Youtube universe, that probably doesn't seem like much. Well, mates, gold's gotta be in the ground before you can dig it up. Most areas I worked, in truth, just weren't very good. As to what I've been telling you all along - 'you gotta go where the gold is'. I never claimed to be the best miner in the world, but I worked hard at it and no one enjoyed the pursuit any more. Hardly any ex-miners can honestly say they struck it rich unless they count independent living as a measure of wealth. I did and still do today. Did I strike it rich? "Yeah, baby, I'm a rich man!" Specimen weight: 4.7 Gram - 72.5 Grains Size - 24X12.6X9.3 mm 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 $14.00 (shipped via USPS priority to all U.S. destinations). Combined shipping offered. ATTN: INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS INTNL. BUYERS - N/A Not available.
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.
NATIVE MINERALS
Check any and all Gold of
Eldorado feedback for disputes arising from non-authenticity of the
specimens I sell. You won't find any. I deal in native minerals with visible
gold, not replicas, not 'paint-ons'. I don't peddle 'simulated' specimens
made with minute amounts of gold or no real gold at all. You won't find salted pay-dirt here that wasn't created by nature. My idea of authentic pay-dirt isn't gold dropped from somebody's hand into a bucket or zip-lock bag of dirt; 'salted' in other words. I was a placer miner priding myself on being able to locate pay-streaks. If I still had mining claims, any pay-dirt offered from them would be direct from the ground; untouched and unadulterated in any other way. Genuine pay-dirt shouldn't need extra gold tossed into it. DESERT
MINING
When water is absent, there are two basic methods enabling prospectors to mine placer gold in the desert. Neither requires
water to process auriferous gravel. Both are
effective
in arid conditions anywhere around
the world. Between the two, drywashing and metal detecting, MDing is the more technologically-advanced. Electronic prospecting with a metal detector allows one
person on foot to hunt virtually anywhere, to cover
vast areas, search out individual pieces of
gold, veins, pockets, artifacts, coins, et al. If a target is metallic, your detector will know. For
many years now, they've been utilized, especially in Australia’s outback, and account for an enormous number of giant slugs.
Many variables
determine whether or not your hunt for ‘wild gold’
will be successful. The most valuable thing to remember; one many of
us, at times, chose to ignore is ‘go where the gold is’. An equally important lesson is
‘never
give up’. Hunt until your belly grumbles,
your canteen runs dry, your rock-hammer blunts, and your last set of batteries gives up the ghost. In
places where serious gold exists,
determination is key. Does every mining
district contain a ton of gold?
Well lets defuse that notion from the get-go. Most long-time miners can regale you with their tales of futility and woe. Perhaps you're the exception to the rule; one of
those men blessed with outstanding prospects in his inventory of claims to hunt. How sweet it is! I really wouldn't know. Still, it matters
not how good your claims are, how sophisticated your machinery, or how
tenaceous a miner you
are, the best detector
can
only pinpoint reachable targets. Individual particles of gold, unless they exist as
exceptionally-large masses, need to
be relatively-close to the
surface.
What
exactly does ‘close to the
surface’ mean? It means
within detecting distance for the electromagnetic
signal transmitted via
your detector’s coil.
When I
began prospecting for
gold in the early 1980s, few detector brands and models were capable
of
locating small, isolated bits of gold. Generally, these metallic targets had to be fairly close
to the surface of the
ground to get a read on.
If the ground
at
that
location was ‘hot’, as in heavily-mineralized, a detectorist was pretty
much out of
luck. Machines of that era really weren't so adept at mineral discrimination. The depth at which gold is buried remains a
key factor in determining how well a metal detector can read it.
So there remain times when a detector, no matter how advanced, won't
be up to the task;
times when electronics aren't the right tool, and
regardless of how sophisticated or
expensive your
machine, gold-bearing
strata, and targets within it,
will be
too deep to
record. Even with minimally-mineralized
ground,
relatively-small metallic targets at say 2
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GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 4.6 GRAMS NATURAL CALIFORNIA GOLD IN QUARTZ MICROMOUNT
$550.0
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States