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NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN from the MOTHER LODE
Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
Specimen weight: 26.4 Grains (Troy) - 1.7 Gram
Size: 19X10.5X7.5 mm
Check out this pebble from the Sierra Nevada Mtns. Ripe-yellow gold really pops at the top of our featured specimen. The main auriferous zone measure roughly 4 mm long. I guarantee the gold inclusions are a natural occurrence. Back when I placer-mined full time, this would have been a great find. What I do nowadays is acquire specimens through the minerals and mining network/community and pass them on to discriminating collectors. All my specimens show visible gold and are authentic gold quartz specimens.
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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 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
Discounted for combined shipments.
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QUARTZ
MINING Californians were fortunate in that most
of their gold ores were what is known as "free-milling"; that is, after the rock
had been crushed so as to free the gold, the latter would amalgamate readily
with quicksilver. There were some exceptions. Mill men discovered that a small
percentage of the gold was enclosed within various forms of metallic sulphides
colloquially known as 'sulphurets.' Mercury could not come into contact with the
gold so long as the ore was locked within the sulphides. To the men of that day
it seemed that mere mechanical treatment of the ore was not sufficient to
release the gold, and that therefore chemistry and metallurgy would have to be
used before progress could be achieved. This was too complex a problem for the
average California mill operator of the 1850s and since the loss through
sulphurets was relatively small, he was able to thrust it out of his mind for
the time being.
excerpt from MINING FRONTIERS OF THE FAR WEST
1848-1880 by Rodman Wilson Paul
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Gold of Eldorado 3-25-17
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