RICH GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .55 GRAM AUSTRALIAN GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description: AUSTRALIAN GOLD ORE from QUEENSLAND Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: 8.5 Grains (Troy) - .55 Grams Size: 10.4X7.8X5.7 mm Here's a gold-permeated chunk of Aussie ore. It hails from Queensland. The gold is high in purity. The white quartz silicate host, though cracked, is still a fine display piece. Minor greenstone accompanies the gold vein running through the centerline. Specimen hails from an underground hard rock mine, the Gympie-Eldorado located in Queensland, Australia. Embryonic gold is often associated with silicon dioxide (quartz) and found crystallized inside it. Sometimes, other minerals accompany the gold. Such is the case here. All my specimens show visible gold and are authentic gold nuggets or gold matrix 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). Contact me indicating you wish to return the item. As soon as it's received by me and everything's as it should be, you'll be issued a refund. I poured through old mining dumps for years looking at orange-yellow-rusty rock through a loupe, but never found a solitary piece with visible gold in it. 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. 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 un-turned 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 CLEANED-OUT CLAIMSWhen one considers the thousands of prospectors who scoured the western hills (and still do), one's chances of finding rich, un-worked ground aren't that hot. Suffice to say that shallow deposits gave up their values without much resistance. Be that as it may, even worked-out claims carry a bit of color. A relatively-small amount of gold still adds up to a handsome payday in times of high gold prices. It's those deeper deposits which cause the most grief. Of the many claims I've worked to one degree or another, it was unusual not to scare up a little gold somewhere. A good prospector never says "die". Due to inefficient mining practices, lost gold reaches old tailings piles both in the finer tails and the over-sized ones. Losses occur as readily today as a hundred and fifty years ago. By making adjustments to recovery and/or classification systems, losses can be kept to a minimum. Second generation sediment, dirt or gravel already mined once, are often reprocessed profitably due to the dramatic increase in gold's market value. "Gold is undisputably where you find it and nowhere else!" Significant values are known to reconcentrate during a hundred and fifty year interval. Maybe that's how long it's been since miners from long ago worked your regional goldfields. Repeating flood cycles, high, seasonal waters surging through drainages move a heap of ground. A lengthy period of erosion can account for a surprisingly-rich redeposit. This 'new gold' forms in washes, creeks, and river bottoms. For what it's worth, modern day mining and prospecting methods over the years haven't improved much in terms of efficiency. Drywashers are just drywashers. Gold introduced into them, given the chance, will bounce over riffles. Don't think it doesn't. When recovery trays are set too steeply, more lost gold results. Over the decades, the principles enabling a drywasher to recover gold have changed very little. By the same token, a modern sluice box by any other name is still just a sluice box. Some gold will be flushed out of any box if you allow too large a head to flow through it. Poorly designed riffles account for more lost gold as will inadequate carpeting. Systems and devices built to separate gold from gravels depend on the same principles they did a hundred years ago. Many times, I've found strips of un-worked dirt running alongside the main 'gut' of washes and creeks. Old timers overlooked the 'side pay' since their focus was on the newer paystreaks. Paydirt is also found in high bar deposits resting at higher elevations above creeks, drywashes, rivers, arroyos, canyons, et al. In heavily-worked placer districts, high bar deposits may be fairly-prominent recognizable as old hydraulic cuts and hand diggings. Whether you're a seasoned sourdough or a cheechako, nothing beats virgin ground. Your chance of finding bonanza gold are enhanced considerably if you can locate paydirt that's never been mined. Just imagine how much money a person can make today finding an ounce of gold. Witness the thousands of ounces pulled by TV's Gold Rush miners. Most comes from virgin ground. I've had the privilege of working it on a few occasions. To any bona fide prospector, it's a beautiful thing. In some districts, enormous quantities of it still exist. Given the opportunity to work dirt like that for any length of time would be like the dream I never had come true. During intervening years, intermittent high waters continue to erode bottom-lands and riverbanks. Turbulent, flood-stage waters pummel old tailings, rip through abandoned diggings and, where they still exist, virgin clip zones. Violent gulley-washers dramatically rearrange the sediments carried by desert washes and canyons. New gold gets flushed down and it re-concentrates. I've mined the lost gold from yesteryear and know it still replenishes watersheds. Be advised this may not be a significant amount of gold at every locale. It depends mainly on how much gold there was in the region to begin with and how widespread the deposits were. Finding traces here and there isn't going to cut it for big operators, but it might be enough to satisfy 'the itch' for many a small-scale, artisanal, or recreational miner. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 8-13-17

Price: 42 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-11-24T19:38:52.000Z

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