ALASKA GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .5 GRAM NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description

GOLD in
SILICATE with Associated black minerals
from Alaska, U.S.A.
F
or collectors seeking fresh specimen, here's a small pebble from the state of Alaska which contains a nice showing of gold. Whether scouring the hills or scoping out ads, like me, you're probably interested in wild gold. Years spent prospecting for this wicked stuff got me close to quite a bit of it. Problem was, most of it stayed put. I had trouble accumulating very much of the goofy stuff. This piece hails from Alaska. I've no further knowledge pertinent to it's origin. Featured specimen contains VG (visible gold). I guarantee it!
My prices aren't based on how much gold there is but on the fact that it's there.
Prospective specimen 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 this e-business, I was a 'lone wolf' placer miner and gold-nugget jewelry designer. If there were claims, gold, and the possibility of access, you might have found me sluicing, panning, detecting, rocking a box, drywashing, or suction dredging. In retrospect, access seems the widest chasm for an avid prospector to cross. In the arid desert, pick-axes, rockhammers, and shovels (Georgia drag line) were essential tools. Miners sometimes use brooms, vacuums, buckets, gold pans, mortar and pestle, or pocket lenses. For processing the ore and finding it, there's drywashers, dredges, sluiceboxes, rocker-boxes, pans, and metal detectors. If you're scaling up, wash plants, trommels, conveyers, and Ross boxes may enter the picture. Dirt moving machinery is generally a must in any larger placer mining operation. Many folks ask, "Gene, did you strike it rich?" I never claimed to be the most successful miner in Gold World, but no one enjoyed the pursuit any more. During my more productive seasons, gold arrived in the form of flour, small flakes, and amalgam. H
ardly any ex-gold miners can honestly say they struck it
rich unless you count independent living as a measure of wealth.
I did back then and still do. Did I strike it rich? You bet.
S
pecimen weight:
.5
G
ram -
7.8
G
rains
S
ize -
8.5X6.6X6.2
mm
R
uler (if shown) is
1/4"
wide (actual size).
A
U.S. 10 cent piece is often used to show size of the item for sale.
FAST REFUND
I
n
case you're unhappy with this specimen, I offer a money back guarantee which includes your initial S&H.
W
ith regards to my gold quartz parcels, gold quartz specimens, slabs, and cabochon, I deal in rocks containing VG (visible gold), not minerals or substances that appear to contain gold or that only assay gold.
I think most of us interested in oro (Atomic symbol Au) would like to see authentic, native gold in their specimens; gold that was put there by nature's elemental forces, not by some man's hand. It's an aesthetic we share, so that's what I sell - authentic gold quartz (with VG visible gold).
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
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 .00 (shipped with USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations).
Combined shipping offered.
ATTN: INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS
INTNL. BUYERS S&H - .00 (via First Class Parcel)
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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.
THE WEARY PROSPECTOR
T
hey say treasure's where you find it. Truth be told, during almost twenty years of placer mining, I never made any real money at it to speak of. During most of that period, gold being mined was being exchanged for, on average, 0 to 0. For one thing, no one paid spot when you started trying to sell it. At best, the gold plopped in my poke barely paid for gas, food, and trailer park rent. Living off the grid for much of the year, even with so little revenue being generated from mining, it wasn’t too awfully hard living within my means. The two elements I treasured the most about life in the deserts and mountains looking for gold were the adventures and the freedom.
I never considered myself anything more than a simple farm-boy, a man close to the earth. That's another reason I enjoyed digging in the dirt so much. My expertise was mostly in how to use a Georgia dragline (i.e. I could shovel dirt). Eventually, I became proficient at waving a metal detector over the ground and directing the vacuum end of a suction hose. Practical placer mining know-how comes mainly from getting your hands dirty more than anything. During my active mining years, I took maybe 180 oz of gold out of the ground. That's me, myself, and Irene. No crews and very little mechanized machinery. Some guys single-handedly find that much gold in a single season; but those are exceptional cases. Without extraordinary properties to work, the best miner in the world can seem pretty average; inept even. In these times, with literally millions of artisanal small-scale miners working the world’s goldfields, the vast majority are still lucky if they can earn subsistence wages. I might toss in here that having gold spot at 00 per ounce definitely helps many of them in keeping their heads above water. For most people, depending on their aptitude and/or good fortune at finding gold, most claims contain more misery and disappointment than they do gold. Hungry ground and myself are no strangers. I still dream, literally, of mucking on hands and knees in some barren river-bottom unable to pan so much as a solitary color. All around me are other starved-out miners living in tents. Don't envy me my hard-luck mining dreams. They suck, but should you become a gold miner, that's one psychological price of admission you may pay further up the road. We always hope we'll find more gold.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have good, workable ground all the time, but that poke-full you're looking for may not magically-materialize. Lots of factors come into play. Consistently-rich claims are few and far between. If you manage to keep your financial head above water in this trade, you’ll enjoy more success than most. Better yet, you'll have led an adventure-filled life chock full of tales to impress your grand-kids with. I’m empathic with every gold miner who, like me, learned this trade the hard way. Mining's a rough racket. But I found myself a little gold and, best of all, survived to tell some pretty cool stories. Discounting the financial hardships, the biggest payoffs for me were getting to live the simple, outdoor life, to be my own boss, and sometimes find a little color where nobody else thought to look. I loved the camaraderie of kindred spirits within our mining community. Locating the odd pay-streak or bragging-size nugget was always a bonus. Almost, though not quite as fun, was seeing how excited others get when they're shown where to dig and then manage to find their own gold. If you decide to try your hand, the hunt for wild gold can be like a dream come true. That’s if luck’s on your side. With a flip of the coin, one's mining adventures can just as easily become your worst nightmare.
G
old of
E
ldorado
3-10-13