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GYMPIE HIGH GRADE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .72 GRAM GOLD AND QUARTZ For Sale
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GYMPIE HIGH GRADE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .72 GRAM GOLD AND QUARTZ:
$38.00
NATIVEGOLD QUARTZSPECIMENfrom QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIARuler is 1/4\" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.Specimen weight: .72 Grams - 11.2 Grains Size: 13.2X8.8X7.2 mmIntruded with precious metal, quartz become highly collectible. Now we\'ve entered the mystical realm of GOLD! This is high grade gold ore. Miners don\'t often luck onto filthy-rich pockets, veins, or even isolated float rocks with visible gold in them. Some mines, however, like the Gympie-Eldorado, contain massive vein systems full of bonanza gold. With high grade ore like this, you don\'t need a pocket lens to see the oro. No milling in a mortar and panning needed. The brilliant golden presence is obvious; the product of naturally-occurring mineralization; mucked underground from a historic, eastern Australia hard-rock operation - the famed Gympie-Eldorado Mine beneath the town of Gympie.
Idon\'t selllow grade gold ores.I sell naturally-occurring gold quartz ores with visible gold. These high-gradebeautiesare expensive to acquire and even harder to find. Prices aren\'t based on the amount of gold, but on the authenticity, rarity and collectibility of specimens.
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FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you\'re not happy with this item)For years, I poured through old mining dumps with a hand-held pocket lens. Within the countless rock piles, I observed every color of the rainbow; white, orange, yellow, red rust, black, burnt, cindery-looking rocks. Anything that looked promising was examined. In all that time, I never find one solitary piece with visible gold in it. That still seems remarkable given the law of averages and the sheer number of rocks involved. Granted, when you\'ve blessed with a rich claim to work, finding gold may seem easy. Having gold staring you in the face every day is really quite a luxury. Most small-scale artisanal miners will tell you a far different story. They reached the same conclusion as me long ago, i.e. \"there\'s no easy ounces.\" That\'s the reality. Yet, having spent years in the trade and the goldfields of North American, I honestly believe a person stands a better chance now than ever before of locating a minable gold deposit. Twenty five years ago, no one forsaw gold prices increasing by six or seven times. Knowing that, who in their right mind would have sold their finds? Problem is, when your beans play out, any man in survival mode does what he must. Jumping ahead, conditions couldn\'t be better for gold mining. All it takes is time, determination, the right tools, hard work, good luck, access to righteous claims or the right friend with good claims, and favorable mining regs that allow a prudent man to mine.
Super-heated hydrothermal solutions, associated with volcanic activity, carry dissolved gold along with silica. Under intensely-high pressure, this aqueous mixture fills natural fissures and faults in major geological formations. Contact alteration zones act as interfaces between larger rock formations. Oftimes, contacts become the recipients of metals carried by the hot waters. Dissolved minerals like gold, silver, copper, lead, et al, as they cool, crystallize and harden into veins, sills, dikes, ledges, etc. The same principle applies to much larger geological formations. Contact zones are ideal areas for prospectors to hone in on. If canyons, creeks, rivers, arroyos, et al drain and carry alluvial material away from these contact zones, a prospector/miner may be in business.
Weight Conversions: 15.43 GRAINS = 1 GRAM31.103 GRAMS = 1 TROY OUNCE24 GRAINS = 1 PENNYWEIGHT (DWT) 20 DWT = 1 TROY OUNCE480 GRAINS = 1 TROY OUNCES & H Discounted for combined shipments. U.S. BUYERS & INTNL.
PAYMENTS For U.S. buyers: We accept paypal For intnl. customers: We accept paypal. Pay securely with [link removed by ]. Payment must be made within 7 daysfrom close of sale. We ship as soon as funds clear. If you have questions, please ask them before offerding. REFUNDSWe leave no stones unturned insuring our customersget whatthey bargained for.If you\'re not satisfied with thisitem, contact me. Then, if the problem can\'t be fixed,returnproduct within 30 daysin \'aspurchased\'conditionfora fullrefund.COLORADO RIVER POTHOLES At the eastern end of Laguna Dam, about ten miles northeast of Yuma,lie the Arizona Potholes where masses of black schist and coarse, granitic gneiss rise steeply for 250 feet above the Colorado River.Inside Mittry, the lake impoundedbehind the dam, an island dike of volcanic rhyolite rises from this small, placid reservoir. The geology of the region is extremely diverse. I scrambled all over local terrain and found small placer depositson both sides of the pink rhyolite. That tells you a little something about the gold\'s source. Small, discrete deposits of placer gold extend even out onto the island. It\'s possible thatover time,indigenous Colorado Rivertribeslearned aboutgold’s value from both white men and Hispanics. It\'s a cinch miners from south of the border knew gold’s worthas did the hordes of Caucasians justentering the country. Gold causes an infectious disease. As diverse peoples mingle, one group passes ‘the fever’ on to other groups. Eons before people arrived...maybe?...ancientlodes had spawned these placer deposits. The free gold was discovered in pediments as well as in the region\'s canyons, ravines, and smaller drywashes.Extensions of similar, gold-bearing geology had also been discovered in granitic rocks of the California Potholes on the Colorado River’snorthern banks. These placers were extensively-mined as well. Remnant channels, carrying golddown through localcanyon systems, over time became elevated by down-cutting. They came to rest atop granite, rhyolite, gneiss, and schist bedrock. While I was never able to amass much gold from the Arizona and California Potholes, I did locate some beautiful nuggets up to 12 pennyweights in size. Drywashing was my preferred method of extraction. Driving south along the Gila Gravity Canal, at the southern-most end of the Laguna Mountains, you\'ll find yourself at the Gila River floodplain. Crossing beyond this relatively-narrow strip of irrigated cropland, the northern tip of the Gila Mountains rise up from the river-bottom. Turning off Rte 95 and driving a few miles east on a gravel road places you in the vicinity of the old ghost town of Gila City. Here\'s a new area for you to explore for more recreational prospecting opportunities. To the west of Yuma are the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. Regional washes in the vicinity of the old ghost town of Tumco and the American Girl Minecontinue to be producers of placer gold. Somewhat in-between but in a more northerly direction, is Picacho Peak, another famous mining district where considerable gold mining occurred in recent years. Large-scale mining operations have pretty much eradicated any sign of the old placer diggings once prominent back in the early 1980s. Yuma\'s regional mining districts offer an interesting playground for the novice gold-mining aficionado. Researching a little deeper discloses several more gold districts throughout this portion of the Arizona desert. Unfortunately, many of these promising mineralized provinces lie on Military Proving Grounds, within Game Refuges, or on Colorado River Indian reservation land. Although you are rarely, if ever, assured of finding gold, your chances are still pretty fair in the old wild west. It\'s always advisable to investigate the claim status of land in mining districts open to mineral entry. When you see old mine workings and lots of claim markers, there\'s a good chance the land is under claim. The Yuma county B.L.M. office istheplace to find mining claim status as well as information on lands open to mineral entry in Arizona. One possible shortcut which might help avoid much of the run around connected with finding a place to work recreationally is to join a gold-mining club with valid claims. Fortunately, I had the run of the Laguna Mtns. This gave me ample room for prospecting to my heart’s content.
Thanks forchecking out our digs. Gold ofEldorado1-14-13
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