GOLD QUARTZ GREENSTONE SPECIMEN .71 GRAM NATURAL CALIFORNIA GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description

GOLD QUARTZ-GREENSTONE SPECIMEN
from
CALIFORNIA
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
.71
G
ram -
11
G
rains
S
ize:
11.1X9X4.9
mm
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ere, we have a greenstone-calcitic oreo cookie rock. It's quite an odd duck agglomerate with visible, high-purity gold (quite a lot of it) showing within approximately half the circumference of the specimen. It has the appearance of a caliche agglomerate sandwiched together with serpentine plates. Featured specimen is a regional variety found in California's southern Mother Lode country. I guarantee what looks like gold is gold; very high-purity at that. True gold-hounds will be pleased to collect this one.
For those who've kept track of my store these past several years, you'll know I don't sell low-grade specimens. If it shows real gold, it can't be low grade.
I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold quartz ores with visible gold and other silicate/gold specimen. These high-grade beauties are hard-won and expensive to boot. My prices aren't based upon the amount of gold contained, but upon the authenticity, rarity and collectability of these unique pieces of the famed California Mother Lode.
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I poured through old mining dumps for years looking at orange-yellow-rusty rock through a loupe, but I never found a piece with visible gold.
Hydrothermal solutions carrying gold and silica crystallized into veins of gold quartz. This specimen comes from one of the many gold-bearing vein systems of California, The Golden State.
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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VIRGIN PAY AND PLACER REDEPOSITS
Whatever type of gold deposit, placer or lode, you're looking for, it takes testing and lots of it. The onis is on you, the prospector, to make that happen. Wherever the goldfield, sediments must be sampled across their entire width whether in a creek-bed, river channel, dry-wash, alluvial fan, or pediment. A pan sample here and there isn't going to cut it. Pay-streaks meander. With lodes, the same thing applies because one or two assays just aren't enough to give a true quantitative picture. In vertical gold country, a vein or old terrace can be buried in plain sight, but up at a higher elevation. Usually, placer's planted on or close to bedrock or false bedrock, but that isn't always the case. Be thorough in your testing. Incomplete sampling is the bane of the inept prospector. A deposit could be hidden any place topographically one could imagine. A vein can cut across the entire canyon buried from sight beneath sediments. With placer, once-static gold may be in transit, slowly washing downhill leap-frogging from one elevation to the next; one step, one elevation change, one plateau at a time. In desert country, you might expect to find surface placer as well as deeply-buried deposits in close proximity to one another. Water erosion is the chief transporting vehicle causing gold to wander around the landscape.
In Canada and the western states run massive river systems where annual seasonal flooding leave behind sizable redeposits of gold on gravel bars at and just beneath the surface. One always has to wonder, if a redeposit is this good near the surface, what would a guy find at those same sites down on bedrock? Problem is, it would take forever to reach bedrock on those bars and you certainly couldn't do it by hand methods. I excavated gravel with a six inch dredge for years. As effective as it was on shallow-gravel deposits, that sucker hardly made a dent on a twenty foot deep mass of stratified alluvium. If you're familiar with mountainous terrain, you realize what a tall order comprehensive sampling is; much of the time, it's virtually impossible. Only operators outfitted with monster excavators, cats, front-end loaders, and such can open up high-yardage alluvial masses and test such ground effectively. Here, I'm referring, of course, to dry-land, above-the-water-table gravel deposits. If you're forced to test ground adjacent to active watersheds, good luck keeping out the water. Rest assured very little is assured or comes easy in this business. The general rule is the best pay-dirt will be concentrated on, in, and just above the bedrock of old river channels. This is not to say good ‘pay’ can’t be found in other stratified layers higher up in the sedimentary column. The famous ‘blue leads’ of British Columbia and the Yukon remain classic examples. In many instances, excellent flood gold re-deposits are encountered in the uppermost strata of the most recently-deposited stream/river gravels. Anything goes in desert and pediment-type deposits. In drier climes and areas where shallow-seated lode deposits continue to shed gold, placer gold is found lying very close to the surface. These represent readily-available targets to MDers hunting the many dry regions of the world.
Thanks for checking out our digs.
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ldorado
1-14-13