CRYSTALLINE GOLD QUARTZ GREENSTONE SPECIMEN 1.78 GRAM NATURAL BRITISH COLUMBIA

Description: BRITISH COLUMBIA GOLD + GREENSTONE + SMOKY QUARTZ CRYSTAL SPECIMEN Gold of North America For gold purists and collectors of unusual specimens, here's something from the northern prospector's domain. This rare 'clamshell' specimen hails from British Columbia, Canada. The wall rock consists of thin plates of dark green serpentine with lighter silicate rock sandwiched in between. In places, they come together like a clam on the verge of closing it's shell. Drusy bedded-vugs of minute, smoky quartz crystals fill much of the interior. One end shows quite a few high-purity Au crystals most of them embedded inside the silicate. A few scattered crystals of gold can be seen elsewhere. The mineral ensemble exhibits quite the surreal vug-lining much of it either crystalline or microbial. This argillaceous greenstone specimen is rather fragile, so it'll be packed inside a protective gem jar. Mineralogists may have a field day examining this one. Envy the man who stumbled on such a find. I purchased it from that lucky cuss. If you're after bullion, this isn't a good investment, but gold purists should revel in this zany rock. Many offerings in this Ebay category contain no visible gold at all.With other specimens, you need a pocket lens to see the Au. I've bought specimens that showed gold, but were man-made in any number of different ways. Sellers paint rocks with gold-colored paint, then fail to inform you it's simulated i.e. basically faked. They may claim they didn't know and, in all fairness, this explanation could be the truth. I believe if a dealer doesn't know for certain it's authentic, don't peddle it as 'natural'. Other faux specimen peddlers are known to glue 'pounded gold' onto the surface of barren quartz. All your oro will be on the outside. This seems a favorite amongst bogus specimen dealers. Pounded gold is super-thin, 24K gold leaf found in liquid-filled vials sold as a novelty. Crinkled up, sprinkled here and there, it's made to look natural and decorates up a piece of barren quartz quite well. Although pure Au, pounded gold is so thin and weightless that when you shake the container it's in, you'll see it float around like golden snowflakes. Many specimens listed in this category show nothing but pyrite...lots of pyrite. If such faux specimens are advertised as simulations or as gold ore, that's fine as long as they're not misrepresented as naturally-occurring, gold quartz specimens. Back when I mined full-time, finding a curiosity like this would have made my day. If you've hunted for gold afield, you know what I'm saying. This wicked specimen hails from British Columbia. Please check my feedback for any disputes arising from non-authenticity issues. There are none. Specimen weight: 1.75 Gram - 27.1 GrainsSize - 18.4X14.2X8 mm Ruler (if shown) is 1/4" wide (actual size). A U.S. 10 cent piece is often used to show size of the item for sale. FAST REFUND In case you're unhappy with this specimen, I offer a money back guarantee which includes your initial S&H. With regards to my gold quartz parcels, gold quartz specimens, slabs, and cabochon, I only deal in rocks containing naturally-occurring visible gold. I think most of us interested in oro (Atomic symbol Au) would like to see authentic, native gold in their specimens; gold that was put there by nature's elemental forces, not by some man's hand. It's an aesthetic we share and that's what I sell - authentic, natural, gold quartz (with VG visible gold). 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 Combined shipping offered. For multiple item purchases, please request an invoice (from the seller) when you buy more than one item. U.S. BUYERS S & H is $3.50 (shipped with USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations). Combined shipping offered. ATTN: INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS INTNL. BUYERS S&H - $14.00 (via USPS) 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 resolved, return product within 30 days in 'as purchased' condition for a full refund (S & H included. For those who know the ups and downs of the precious metals market, this is a heck of a deal. Buy it and if the market drops dramatically in the next 30 days, you can return it for what you paid for it. That's a pretty cool insurance policy for precious metal buyers. I think most specimen buyers, however, are more interested in these rocks for their intrinsic beauty and collectability than they are for their gold content. NATIVE MINERALS Check any and all Gold of Eldorado feedback for disputes arising from non-authenticity of the specimens I sell. You won't find any. I deal in native minerals with visible gold, not replicas, not 'paint-ons'. I don't peddle 'simulated' specimens made with minute amounts of 'applied gold' or no real gold at all. Nor will you find salted pay-dirt here. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, my friend, but that's not all authentic pay-dirt. Real pay-dirt is created by nature, not by a man's hand weighing out a sum of gold, then dropping it into a bucket or zip-lock bag of dirt. I was a professional placer miner priding myself on being able to locate pay-streaks both virgin packs and redeposits of gold. If I still had mining claims, any pay-dirt offered would be direct from the ground and the original deposit from whence it came. It would not be salted with extra 'color'. What gold you found inside the alluvium ( dirt/clay/caliche/sand/gravel et el) would have been placed there by nature, not by a man's hand. That being the case, neither you nor I would know what was in said paydirt. In many cases, buyers might be disappointed. So do you see why I don't sell paydirt? I know good dirt when I find it. Odds are that in a pound of bona-fide, untampered-with paydirt, you probably would find some gold. How much is anybody's guess. It might be only a small flake or two. It could be a couple grains of chunky pickers; maybe a nice nugget or larger flake. The amount found would depend on the law of averages and the tenor of your ore, but mostly, on a person's luck. It would be my greed and lack of ethos to wave a detector coil over your dirt removing any large pieces of gold from within. Then, on the other hand, if I don't check to see what's in your paydirt, I could practically give away the biggest nugget to ever come off my claim selling it inside a bag of unsearched paydirt. All of my advertised specimens, slabs, cabochons, nuggets, gold ores are authentic and contain naturally-occurring, native gold and/or are composed almost entirely of naturally-occurring gold (i.e. gold nuggets, gold flakes, wire gold specimens). The purity of this gold will vary, but if it's from California, you can count on the percentage being fairly high, say from 70% to 95% pure. For comparision, a 14K gold wedding band is 58% pure gold. A LIFETIME OF GOLD Prior to starting up Gold of Eldorado, my calling for over eighteen years was as a 'lone wolf', small-scale placer miner. Wherever there was gold, running water, and a claim to work, I dredged, sluiced, panned, or poured water into a rocker-box. In the arid desert, both dry-washers and metal detectors were employed. Primary transportation was provided by my 1976 Ford Econoline. After locating a small box trailer, I had everything needed for my living quarters as well as for packing necessary gear in and out of a mining claim. A four-wheel drive van might have been even more ideal. Many people ask, "did you strike it rich"? Well, I found lots of nuggets, some over two ounces. I even hit short stretches of an ounce of gold a day. Today, seems that would be pretty good money, eh? During my more productive seasons, there were hardly any nuggets found. Most gold recovered showed up as small flakes, fines, and amalgam. Hardly any ex-gold miners can truthfully say they struck it rich unless you count independent living as a measure of wealth. I do and I did. Some argue that miners release Mercury into the environment. I contend modern-day dredgers reclaim it. In many of the hardest-worked rivers and creeks, the old-time miners used 'Quicksilver' unsparingly. Because of it's affinity for gold, they loaded up the riffles of their sluice boxes with it. It seems that when mercury and gold are both clean, they attract one another. Some disinformation circulating says they become alloyed. They don't. Mercury simply coats the gold. It doesn't dissolve it like, say, aqua regia. In practice, finer gold moving down a sluice box sticks to the Mercury (or vice versa) and thus becomes an amalgam. In this manner, a great deal of 'quick' was released into the watershed where it remains in 'hundred-year-deposits' found today. These flood re-deposits are represented by the uppermost sediments washing downstream. Where bedrock is close to the surface, cracks in it will catch the mercury. Until the next major flood waters arrive to create major turbulence, these sediments rest temporarily closest to the surface of that stream-bed. Moving ahead to the present, lining riffles with 'quick' is no longer a practice utilized by any placer miners I have ever known or heard of here in the U.S. Nonetheless, you will find it difficult to convince or persuade folks who are opposed to mining by any method that miners aren't dumping Mercury into watersheds. These are blatant distortions of modern practice. In their ongoing efforts to stop small-scale placer mining, they resort to perpetuating the myth that miners release Mercury into ecosystems. I have found such disinformation spread all across the internet. It would appear many people's minds are closed to the facts. Write your congressman asking them to consider the true facts and reopen California to small-scale recreational gold mining. The economic stimulus this would provide to both small scale miners and to the state could be enormous. Gold of Eldorado 3-10-13

Price: 55 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-10-23T00:04:21.000Z

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