GYMPIE WIRE GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .57 GRAM GOLD AND QUARTZ

Description: NATIVE GOLD QUARTZ from QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: .57 Grams - 8.9 Grains Size: 15X10X3.6 mm Intruded with precious metal, quartz become highly collectible. Now, you've arrived at the mystical realm of GOLD! This is the only one of it's kind I have. The growth of wire gold itself measures 6.6 mm long. I never expect to see another piece of wire gold from the Gympie-Eldorado Mine. If you want it, now's your chance. Miners don't often luck onto filthy-rich pockets, veins, or isolated float rocks with visible gold in them, gold viewed with the naked. Some mines, however, like the Gympie-Eldorado, contain massive vein systems brimming with bonanza ore. I don't sell low grade gold ores. I sell naturally-occurring gold quartz ores with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are expensive to acquire and even harder to find. Prices aren't based on the amount of gold, but on the authenticity, rarity and collectibility of specimens. U.S. SHIPPING - $4.00 (includes USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations) INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS S&H $16.00 FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you're not happy with this item) EVERYTHING BUT GOLD For years, I poured through old mining dumps with a hand lens. Within those countless rock piles, I observed every color of the rainbow; white, orange, yellow, red rust, black, burnt, cindery-looking rocks. Anything that looked promising was examined. In all that time, I never found one solitary piece with visible gold. That still strikes me as remarkable given the law of averages and sheer number of rocks involved. Granted, when you're blessed with a rich claim, finding gold may seem rather easy. Having gold stare you in the face every day is really quite the luxury. Most small-scale artisanal miners will tell a far different story. By now, they've reached the same conclusion I did long ago, i.e. "there's no easy ounces." That's the reality. Yet, having spent years in the trade working the goldfields of North America, I believe a person stands a better chance today than ever before of finding himself a good-paying deposit of gold. Twenty five years ago, no one forsaw prices increasing six or seven times. Knowing that, who in their right mind would have sold their finds? Problem is, when your beans play out, a man does what a man must. Jumping ahead, discounting all the bureaucratic hoops, conditions couldn't be better for miners. What it takes is time, determination, the right tools, hard work, good luck, access to righteous claims or the right friend with good claims, and favorable mining regs allowing a prudent miner to dig for gold. Typically in a metamorphic-volcanic geological environment, super-heated hydrothermal solutions, associated with volcanic activity, carry dissolved gold along with silica. Under intensely-high pressure, this aqueous, mineral mix fills natural fissures and faults in major rock formations. Contact alteration zones act as interfaces between these different rock types. Contacts become the recipients of metals carried by hot waters. Dissolved minerals such as gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron, et al cool, crystallize and harden into veins, sills, dikes, ledges, leads et al. The same principle applies to even larger permeable rock formations, carbonates and jasperoids, for example. Contact zones become ideal areas for prospectors to hone in on. If canyons, creeks, rivers, arroyos, et al drain and carry alluvial material away from these contact zones, a prospector/miner may be in business. 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 For U.S. buyers: We accept paypal For intnl. customers: We accept paypal. Pay securely with www.paypal. 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. COLORADO RIVER POTHOLES At the eastern end of Laguna Dam, about ten miles northeast of Yuma, lie the Arizona Potholes. Here, masses of black schist and granitic gneiss rise steeply for 250 feet above the Colorado River. Inside Mittry Lake, a small reservoir impounded behind the dam, an island dike of volcanic rhyolite rises up from the placid waters. The geology of the region is quite diverse. I scrambled all over this terrain for twenty years finding small deposits of placer on both sides of the pink rhyolite. That should tell us a little something about the gold's source. Small, discrete deposits extend even out onto the island. It's possible that over time, indigenous Colorado River tribes learned of gold’s value from invading white men and Hispanics. Gold causes an infectious disease. As diverse peoples mingle, one group passes gold fever on to another. Eons before humans arrived, in all likelihood, the region's lodes had been breaking down into these goldfields. Free gold had lain buried in alluvial pediments as well as in canyons, ravines, and smaller drywashes. Similar geological formations along the Colorado River's northern banks produced gold feeding the California Potholes. These placers were extensively-mined as well. Ravines carried gold down through local canyon systems. Over time, 'potholes', remnants of the earlier channels, became elevated by down-cutting. The gold in these potholes rested atop granite, rhyolite, gneiss, and schist bedrock. While I was never able to amass much gold from the Arizona and California Potholes, I did locate some beautiful nuggets up to 12 pennyweights in size. Drywashing was my preferred method of extraction. Driving south along the Gila Gravity Canal, at the southern-most end of the Laguna Mountains, you find yourself approaching the Gila River floodplain. Across this relatively-narrow strip of irrigated farmland, the northern tip of the Gila Mountains can be seen rising up from the river-bottom. If you turn off Rte 95 and drive a few miles east, a gravel road takes you to the old gold rush ghost town of Gila City. Here's a new area for recreational prospectors to explore. To the west of Yuma are the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. Regional washes near the old town of Tumco and the American Girl Mine continue to produce a bit of placer gold. Somewhat in-between here and the California Potholes but in a northerly direction, is Picacho Peak, another famous district where considerable gold mining occurred. A large-scale mining operation in recent years has pretty much eradicated any sign of the old placer diggings which were prominent back in the early 1980s. Yuma's regional mining districts offer a fun playground for the novice gold-mining aficionado. Researching a little deeper discloses several more gold districts throughout this portion of the Arizona desert. Unfortunately, many of these promising provinces lie on Military Proving Grounds, in Game Refuges, or on Colorado River Indian reservation land. Although you're rarely, if ever, assured of finding gold, your chances are still pretty fair in the old wild west. It's always advisable to investigate the claim status of land in mining districts open to mineral entry. When you see old mine workings and lots of claim markers, there's a good chance the land is under claim. The Yuma county B.L.M. office is the place to find mining claim status as well as information on lands open to mineral entry in Arizona. One possible shortcut which might help avoid much of the run around connected with finding a place to work recreationally is to join a gold-mining club with valid claims. Fortunately, I had the run of the Laguna Mtns. This gave me ample room for prospecting to my heart’s content. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 1-14-13

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