GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN
Native gold from the Mother Lode


 
U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
Specimen weight: 1 Gram - 15.7 Grains (Troy)
 
Size: 12.4X8.8X7.3 mm   
 
If you appreciate native gold and quartz specimen, not just garden-variety whites, but stained ores sometimes with associated mineral fillings, check out my inventory for current selections. Some of these rocks are quite varied in composition and every one contains visible gold. The rare specimen featured here is a marshmellow-fudge-colored goodie and looks good enough to eat. My supply of these is virtually exhausted. It's questionable whether you'll see rock like this again. Posed prominently in a display case, it would make a great micro-mount.

I guarantee what looks like gold is high-purity, naturally-occurring gold. The residual colors livening up this piece will blow away all ideas of how gold ore is supposed to look. You won't be disappointed. 



As the operator/sole proprietor of Gold of Eldorado, I actively mined gold for 18 years. Beginning long ago, perhaps in a past life, something in the golden mystique of this rare, precious metal attracted me to it. Searching for Au (gold), working with oro in it's multitude of forms, and passing it on to other devotees has become a life-way. This passion, combined with an independent and entrepreneurial spirit, fuels my desire to bring these exciting creations and new discoveries to your notice. Here is one such discovery, an amazing marriage of gold, quartz, and a rainbow of residual colors left over mainly by native iron minerals. This is a far different animal than you may be accustomed to seeing or collecting. I have priced it at a fair price for such an exceptional piece.
 

U.S. SHIPPING $2.50 (includes USPS tracking and insurance to all U.S. destinations)
 
INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS - SHIPPING VIA USPS 1ST CLASS $12.00
 
 
 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 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
 
S & H
Discounted for combined shipments.
 
U.S. BUYERS 

S & H $2.50 (with USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations 

ATTN: INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS

INTNL. BUYERS - $12.00 

 

Shipping via USPS 1ST CLASS MAIL.

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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

 NATURAL GOLD QUARTZ

Welcome to the world of Natural Gold Quartz. For those of you unfamiliar with this product, GQ is, essentially, gold ore...very high-grade gold ore born found in the outer crust of the earth. When geological conditions are just right, metallic gold-crystals form (grow) in quartz veins or other rock formations. This occurs as extremely hot, hydrothermal, silica and metal-bearing solutions cool. It was once thought that most precious metal deposits formed beneath the ocean, but it has been discovered that geothermal hot springs also produce ore bodies of enormous stature. Elemental erosion weathers richer portions of a vein or ore body ultimately producing placer gold nuggets, gold flakes, flour gold, and colloidial gold. Vein filling or 'gold ore' which retains the host matrix rock (gangue) and harbors metalliferous gold is one of the earth's more highly-prized gemstones.

The ideal criteria are hardness, color, and richness.  General mineral compositions of gold-bearing stone found in fissure veins (and larger ore bodies) varies from one deposit to the next resulting in differently-colored matrix (host rock). The gemstone offered here is just one example.
 
The metallic mineral, gold, occurs in a variety of geological formations. In modern-day mining enterprises, entire mountains are blasted down, transported and piled into heaps, then soaked with cyanide to leach the precious metal from the ore. Quartz veins were, at one time, notoriously famous producers of gold, but many of these prominent, fissure-type veins, such as the Homestake Mine in South Dakota, have been mined to great depths. Since ore grades and underground geology often change, deep deposits, at some point, may become unprofitable to mine. Water seepage often became a monumental problem in many of the historic old mines of the western U.S. Discontinuous veins sometimes slip sidewise along a fault zone and cannot be relocated. Prices for metals can fluctuate dramatically. A great many factors influence the availability and production of gold quartz gemstone. GQ appears to be extremely scare at this time since only a scant handful of mines around the world are producing this rare gemstone material.

Thanks for checking out our digs.

Gold of Eldorado  1-14-13