CLASSIC GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .37 GRAM GOLD WITH QUARTZ

Description

CALIFORNIA GOLD & QUARTZ
from the
MOTHER LODE
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
5.78
G
rains (Troy) -
.37
G
rams
S
ize:
10.8
mm (LONG)
H
ere's a chunk of white quartz ripe with gold. It hails from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. Specimen shows very little weathering and deformation. The gold itself shows a crystalline leaf-like habit and is very high in purity. In most streams and rivers draining the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, gold found as placer shows considerable wear as though it traveled a great distance.
Embryonic gold is often associated with silicon dioxide (quartz) and found crystallized inside it. Sometimes, other minerals, mainly of a ferromagnesian nature, accompany gold. All my specimens show visible gold and are
authentic
gold nuggets or gold matrix specimens.
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I poured through old mining dumps for years looking at orange-yellow-rusty rock through a loupe, but never found a solitary piece with visible gold in it.
Hydrothermal solutions carrying gold and silica crystallize in sequence to form veins of gold-bearing quartz. This specimen comes from one of the many vein systems sourcing the immense placer deposits of the Sierra Nevada Mtns, the famed Mother Lode.
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
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CLEANED-OUT CLAIMS
Considering the large number of prospectors who once scoured the western hills, your chances of finding an untapped drainage full of easy-to-mine gold aren't really that hot. Suffice to say shallow gravel deposits have always given up their riches without much trouble, but these days, a relatively-small amount of gold adds up to a handsome payday. It's the deeper deposits which cause you grief.
By the time they finished, the old timers pretty much cleaned out the shallow ones.
Still, of the many claims I've worked to one degree or another, it was uncommon not to scare up a little gold somewhere within their boundaries. Due to inefficient recovery methods which includes improper-screening or classifying, lost gold is often found in the old tailings piles both in finer tails and over-sized ones. Losses can occur just as readily today as they did a hundred years ago. By tinkering and making adjustments to recovery systems and screens/grizzlies, losses may be minimized. Second generation sediments, those already mined once, oftimes can be reprocessed at a profit due to today's dramatic increase in gold's value.
"Gold is undisputably where you find it and nowhere else!" Considerable re-concentration of values can accumulate during a hundred and fifty year interval. Maybe it's been that long since miners from another era worked that particular deposit. Long periods of weathering account for surprisingly-rich redeposits which form in washes, creeks, and river bottoms. For what it's worth, modern day mining and prospecting methods haven't improved much in terms of recovery efficiency rates. Drywashers are just drywashers. The principles which enable them to recover gold haven't changed much since the old days. A modern plastic sluice box by any other name is still just a sluice box. Gold can be flushed out of any box if too large a head of water flows through it. Poorly designed riffles account for more lost gold as will the wrong type of carpeting. By the same token, gold introduced into a drywasher can easily bounce over poorly-designed riffles and be lost if a machine's recovery tray is set too steeply. These systems built for separating gold from gravel still depend on the same principles they did a hundred years ago.
Many times, I've found strips of un-worked side channel running alongside gold-bearing washes or creeks. Side pay can lie at approximately the same elevation as the main drainage i.e. the 'gut' previously worked by old timers. Side pay can also be found as high bar deposits aka terraces or upper benches. As the name implies, these rest at higher elevations alongside creeks, drywashes, rivers, arroyos, canyons, et al. They represent ancient terraces hidden alongside water-sheds. In heavily-worked placer-mining districts, evidence of high bar deposits are usually evident as old hydraulic cuts and hand diggings.
Whether you're a seasoned sourdough or only a tinhorn, a cheechako, there's nothing quite like working virgin ground. Finding an untapped deposit represents one's best chance for finding bonanza gold. Just imagine how much money a person can make today by mining an ounce of gold. Witness the thousands of ounces being mined by TV's Gold Rush miners. Most of the gold they mine comes from virgin ground. To be honest, I've not had many chances to work such crazy-rich gravel; but I've seen virgin ground on a few occasions. I also know that in certain districts, enormous volumes of it still exist, and believe me, being allowed to work material like that for any length of time would be the cat's meow.
During intervening years, intermittent high waters continue to erode creeks and riverbanks. Turbulent waters at flood stage cut through old tailings, abandoned diggings, and, possibly, virgin clip zones. A violent gulley-washer can dramatically rearrange sediments in some desert wash or canyon. That's how new gold gets flushed down and is re-concentrated. It's been born out by personal observation that lost gold from yesteryear still replenishes watersheds. Be advised that many times, this may not be a significant amount of gold. It just depends. Finding traces here and there isn't going to cut it for big operators, but it might be enough to satisfy 'the itch' for many a small-scale, artisanal, or recreational miner.
Thanks for checking out our digs.
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ldorado
8-13-17