CALIFORNIA GOLD  QUARTZ SPECIMEN 


Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). A U.S. dime (10 cent coin) is 17 mm in diameter.
 
Specimen weight: 10.8 Gram - 166.9 Grains (Troy)
 
Size: 24X20.2X18.4 mm   
 

If you're looking for specimens with provenance, check out this sweet rock. My source names it's origin as California's Harvard Mine near Jamestown. It's part of a small collection of specimens recently acquired from this historic site. The gold really beams and, judging by it's color, is of very high purity. The rock host is quartz, a common silicate mineral. For those who've kept track of my store, you know I don't sell low-grade specimens. For one thing, if it shows gold, it can't be low grade ore.
 
I deal in authentic, naturally-occurring ores with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are hard to find and expensive to obtain. Prices aren't based upon the amount of gold contained, but upon the authenticity, rarity, and collectability of these unique pieces.

 
U.S. SHIPPING - $12.00 (via priority box - includes USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations)
 
INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS S&H
$50.00 via priority box
 
 FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you're not happy with this item)
  
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
 
S & H
Discounted for combined shipments.
 
U.S. BUYERS & INTNL. 

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 unturned 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 fixed, return product within 30 days in  'as purchased' condition for a full refund
 
CHASING COLOR
Since the beginning of this enterprise, I viewed my experiences digging for gold as advantageous. Years spent detecting, sampling ores, drywashing, sluicing, and dredging in the bush are how this enterprise came about roughly twenty years ago. Gold of Eldorado was opened to liquidate personal finds and gold jewelry creations. My expertise isn't vast. I'm no geologist, mining engineer, or 'legendary miner' like the braggards on reality TV. What I do know was gained digging a moonscape of craters looking for the miserable stuff. I learned from either sweating or freezing my you know what off. My degree came from the College of Slinging Dirt, the School of Swinging Pickaxes, the U. of Rolling Boulders. I started diving in 1983 and stuck with suction dredging for thirteen summers. I learned a lot more working alongside other miners and, when not mining, connecting with fellow snowbirds, rock-hounds, sun-lovers, geritol gypsies, other artist-types following their own elusive dream whether it was jewelry-making or digging fossils. Most Arizona vendors I met generously shared their knowledge. Some specialized in antiquities, beads, knapping, hand-crafted artwork, lapidary, or maybe they sold imported goods gathered from all over the world. If you've not been to Quartzsite, that's some of what you'll find down in the Arizona outback. 
 

PLACER GOLD REDEPOSITS
With present-day gold prices, the ground rules have changed. Paydirt isn't what it used to be. Gold hasn't gotten any easier to find than it ever was. The difference now is it's worth considerably more than it used to be. The 49ers left a lot of gold; however, if a succession of miners reworked previously worked-out diggings, there might not be much left on those claims. Take that into account if you're shopping for unpatented claims. During my years spent desert mining, most prospectors I knew would consider one pennyweight (24 Grains)(1/20th of an oz) a good day's haul. Same might be said for most creek and riverbed prospectors. A lot about what constitutes profit depends on your project scale, expenses, how extensive the deposits were to begin with, how hard you're willing to work, and how much gold you'll be satisfied with. It doesn't seem to matter how many times claims were worked, invariably, a little gold gets left behind. The biggest questions to ask yourself are "can you find it", "can you work it", and "will it pay?"

 

Thanks for checking out our digs.

Gold of Eldorado  1-14-13