NATURAL GOLD AND QUARTZ CONCENTRATES .79 GRAM CALIFORNIA MOTHER LODE GOLD for Sale

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NATURAL GOLD AND QUARTZ CONCENTRATES .79 GRAM CALIFORNIA MOTHER LODE GOLD For Sale

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NATURAL GOLD AND QUARTZ CONCENTRATES .79 GRAM CALIFORNIA MOTHER LODE GOLD:
$50.00

NORTH AMERICANNATIVE GOLD & QUARTZ CONCENTRATE from California\'s Mother Lode
Photos are enlarged representations of offered item. Ruler, if shown,is 1/4\" wide (actual size). A U.S. dime (10 cent piece) measures 17.5 mm in diameter.
This listing is for authentic, high-grade gold ore, in this case quartz, ironcap, and gold. Several different Mother Lode districts supplied this lot. It might better be described as concentrates with particles averaging1 mm wideand smaller.There\'s no way of knowing how many different vein systems this came from. I can tell you it was a lot. Acquired from acollector of rare gold specimens,this is a combination of free gold (with nohost rock). Mixed with this are pinpricks of sand, bits of quartz, and ironcap, some with visible gold attached. It makes great locket filler and looks terrific in a water-filled vial. It\'s not \'Hollywood gold\', the kind you see floating in water instead of sinking to the bottom straightaway. If you\'re not satisfied, return it for your money back.
Native gold and quartz concentrate - Total wt. 12.2 grains (Troy) - .79 Gram (metric)

As operator/sole proprietor at Gold of Eldorado, I actively mined gold for 18+ years. Beginning long ago, in a past life, perhaps, something in the golden mystique of this exotic metal attracted me to it. Searching for native placer (gold), working with it in it\'s different forms, and marketing became a life-way. If, like myself, you\'re a big fan of gold, there\'s a lot to see here at Gold of Eldorado.
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 COMBINED SHIPPING IS OFFERED. ON MULTIPLE PURCHASES, FOR CORRECT AMOUNT, PLEASE REQUEST AN INVOICE FROM THIS SELLER.

U.S. BUYERS -S&H $4.00 with tracking.

INTNL. BUYERS - S&H $14.00 shippedviaUSPS International First Class Mail.

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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 un-turned insuring our customersget whatthey bargained for.If you\'re not satisfied with thisitem, contact me.If we can\'tresolve the problem, you mayreturn item in \'aspurchased\'condition (within 30 days)fora refund. Exchanges are another option.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (IN GOLD)Sometimes, it takes years of prospecting to know whether a property\'s worth hanging onto or not. Actually, in this context, we\'re discussing \'mineral rights\', not the actual holding of deeded land. During one 10 year stretch, one of my unpatented Arizona claims shelled out a few ounces of wire-gold nuggets. It took several gallons of La Paz County sweat to find and gather it. The gold was scattered in nugget patches close to the surface spread out across a 100 meter wide swathe of pediment. Once those nuggets clawed their way into my poke, it was slim pickings afterwards. Later, I quit-claimed the property to a caretaker, but always wondered what had been left inside the deeper gravels and caliche packs.
Gold-bearing properties are highly nuanced. A claim may hold placer very near the surface of the ground. Once that\'s skimmed off, your claim could be all but mined out. Any chance for finding more gold of consequence might be nonexistent. Other times, all the minable gold is buried in alluvial beds far down beneath thousands of yards of overburden. If they thought gold might be on bedrock, nothing prevented the old timers from digging shafts to find out. They burrowed a hundred feet down just to check out what was on the basement level. Back in my mining heyday, I knew miners who dug \'coyote holes\' one heavy bucket at a time. Man, that\'s \'teejus\' work, and who wants to invest that much manual labor these days in what, in all liklihood, is just another dry hole?Whether you\'re a cheechako or an experienced sourdough, there\'s nothing quite like working in virgin ground. Finding an untapped, never-before-worked placer represents one\'s best chances for recovering impressive sums of gold. Witness the thousands of ounces mined by TV\'s Gold Rush miners. Of course, they\'re pushing thousands of yards of aggregate around on D11 Cats and running it through 500 yard/hour wash plants. HC! On a good day, I used to run 2 yards a day max. From what I\'ve seen, most of their production comes from virgin ground. To be honest, I\'ve not had many experiences working virgin ground. I\'ve seen it, read about it, worked some and believe me, that\'s what a prospector lives for. In my day, I had better luck working redeposits. In the desert, I hit some decent paystreaks dry-washing the deepest parts of washes. Even then, it was all redeposited, flood gold. During intervening years, the interval between when washes, creeks, and rivers were last worked and the present day, intermittent floods and gully-washers erode the drainages. Such turbulent waters cut through old tailings, abandoned diggings, and, possibly, flush out virgin clip zones as they wash over them. Violent desert gulley-washers rearrange sediments surrounding, passing through a wash, arroyo, or canyon system. New gold washes down and re-concentrates. It\'s been born out by personal observation that lost gold from yesteryear continues to replenish watersheds. Be advised that the amount of gold coming down anew may not be of much consequence. It just depends on how much gold was in those environs to begin with. 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.
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