GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .96 GRAM NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ MICROMOUNT

Description

GOLD SPECIMEN in
SILICATE with Oxidized Iron
from California, U.S.A.
F
or collectors seeking fresh specimen, here's a morsel with a sizable filling of gold oozing from the lightly-stained quartz. Whether scouring the hills or scoping out ads, you're on the hunt for wild gold. Years spent prospecting for this wicked stuff got me close to plenty of it. Problem was, it wouldn't accumulate; not enough of it anyway. This piece hails from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California. 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 access to it, you might have found me sluicing, panning, detecting, rocking a box, drywashing or dredging. In retrospect, gaining access seems the widest chasm to cross. In the arid desert, pick-axes, rockhammers, and shovels (Georgia drag line) were essential tools. Miners also use brooms, vacuums, buckets, gold pans, mortar and pestle, and a pocket lens. For processing the ore and finding it, there's mainly drywashers, dredges, sluiceboxes, rockerboxes, pans, and metal detectors. For scaling up, wash plants, trommels, conveyers, and Ross boxes may come into play. Many folks ask, "Gene, did you strike it rich?" I found nuggets, lots of them, some weighing over two ounces. I hit short stretches of an ounce of gold a day while dredging. My best day of dry-washing only produced 1/2 an ounce. I know. You've beaten that by a mile. Good on you, mate! I never claimed to be the most successful miner in Gold World, but no one enjoyed the pursuit any more. During my most productive seasons, most gold came 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:
.97
G
ram -
14.9
G
rains
S
ize -
15.5X9.3X5.1
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)
PAYMENTS
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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.
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 to speak of. At best, the gold plopped in my poke barely paid for gas, food, and trailer park rent. Living off the grid as I did for much of the year, even with so little revenue generated from mining, it wasn’t especially hard to live within my means. From my perspective, the two things I treasured most about life in the deserts and mountains looking for gold were the adventures and the independence.
Now, I never considered myself anything more than a simple farm-boy, a man of 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 else. During my active mining years, I took maybe 180 oz of gold from the ground. That's me, myself, and Irene. No crews and hardly any 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 will 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 lucky if they earn subsistence wages. For most people, depending upon their aptitude and/or good fortune at finding gold, most claims contain more misery and disappointment than they 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. Don't envy me my hard-luck mining dreams. They suck, but should you become a gold miner, that's the psychological price you may pay further up the road. One always hopes they'll find more gold.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have good, workable ground all the time, but that poke-full of gold you're hoping for may very well not magically-materialize. A lot of factors come into play. Consistently-rich claims are few and far between. If you manage to keep your financial head above water, you’ll enjoy more success in this business 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 learned our trade the hard way. Mining's a rough racket. But I found a little gold and, best of all, survived to tell some pretty cool stories. Discounting financial aspects, the biggest payoffs for me were getting to live the simple, outdoor life, be my own boss, and sometimes find color where nobody else thought to look. I loved the camaraderie of kindred spirits within our mining community. Locating the odd, rich pay-streak or bragging-size nugget was always a bonus. Almost, though not quite as much fun, was seeing how excited others get who are shown where to find gold and then they do. 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