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GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN from AUSTRALIA
Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: 2.94 Gram - 45.5 Grains
Size: 17.4X15.1X9.4 mm Here's a specimen ripped from an underground lode mine in Queensland, Australia. The white mineral is predominantly quartz. A plate of grey wall rock adorns one face. Oro can be seen pleasantly-packed into one zone. You won't need a pocket lens to see it. The name of the mine hidden beneath the town of Gympie is the Gympie-Eldorado. For those who've kept track of my store these past several years, you'll know I don't sell low-grade or simulated specimens. If it shows genuine VG (visible gold), it can't be low grade. I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold specimens. These high-grade beauties are hard-won and expensive to boot. My prices aren't based upon the amount of gold contained, but upon the authenticity, rarity and collectability of these unique pieces. S & H Discounted for combined shipments.
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VIRGIN PAY AND PLACER REDEPOSITS Whether you're on the hunt for 'new gold', i.e. a redeposit or exploring for virgin ground, it takes testing. The
onis is on you, the prospector, to make that happen. A gold pan remains one of the most valuable tools you'll ever carry on your tool-belt. Wherever the
goldfield, if placer is hidden there, alluvial sediments need to be sampled for Au. A pan
sample now and then won't cut it. Pay-streaks tend to be irregular. They
meander. In some regions, they lie embedded at indeterminate depths inside different stratas of the alluvial column. Though rarely uniform, they do conform somewhat to the terrain i.e. 'the lay of the land'. It's easy to miss a paystreak entirely. Extending your hole one foot left or right can land you smack dab on a hundred ounce lead. Incomplete
sampling is the bane of the impatient prospector. Placer deposits hide almost anywhere within the complex topography of the surrounding terrain. They're not always lodged close to the bottom of a hydrologically-active creekbed. Oftimes, old Mr. Gold's in transit; moving downhill from one elevation to the next. Uprooted from it's original 'drop zone' which maybe wasn't even it's first pit stop, gold is now washing further downstream looking for another resting place. Check out the massive, surficial gold deposits of Australia and the Bering Sea. In the outback, nuggets seem to be randomly scattered around the landscape. If they weren't so close to the surface, detectorists would never know they were there. The same could be said for the Bering Sea gold deposit. In other North American gold provinces, placer can be hidden in upper sedimentary strata as well as at lower levels. Research the famous blue leads of Canada's western provinces. I've seen them in the Monashee and the Cariboo where locals were pulling impressive amounts of gold from intermediate blue clay layers. In desert country, including here in the states, expect to find surface placer as well as deeper deposits. It all depends on the character of the deposits you're searching. Moving northward into Canada and the western states, one encounters lengthy river systems where seasonal
flooding leaves behind rich redeposits on gravel bars at and just below the surface. One wonders, if the ground pays this well so close to the top, what
would a prospector find down on bedrock at those sites? There are no set cut and dried rules about gold's habitats and haunts. Only sampling can tell where it's at. Problem is, at many locations, there's no way to reach bedrock to test it. I know. I worked beneath a
six inch suction dredge for thirteen years. Dredgers in the Bering Sea rarely have to go more than three feet deep to be in gold. What a luxury, mate. If you're familiar with mountainous terrain and the enormity of canyon systems,
you realize what a tall order comprehensive sampling is; much of the time, it's virtually impossible. Only operators outfitted with monster excavators,
cats, front-end loaders, and such can open up those deep alluvial masses and test ground like that effectively. I'm referring, of course, to dry-land, above-water gravel
deposits. If testing ground adjacent to active watersheds at the same elevation, good luck keeping water out of your dig. In geoexploration, little is certain without analysis and nothing comes easy in this business of finding gold. Generally, the best
pay-dirt will be concentrated on, in, and just above bedrock of rivers and creek
channels. In other regions, excellent
flood gold re-deposits exist in the uppermost strata of the most
recently-deposited stream/river gravels. Anything goes in desert and
pediment-type deposits. In drier climes and areas where shallow-seated lode
deposits continue to shed gold, placer gold is found lying very close to the
surface. These present readily-available targets to MDers hunting the many dry
regions of the world.
Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 1-14-13
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