2 GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMENS .57 GRAMS NATURAL GOLD BEARING ROCK

Description: CALIFORNIA GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN SIERRA NEVADA MTNS, CALIFORNIA Photos are enlarged representations of the quartz & gold. Ruler, if shown, is 1/4" wide (actual size). Straight from the Mother Lode comes these two quartz pebbles containing nice 'color'. It's so cool seeing high-purity gold bubbling out of the rock. For gold aficionados and prospectors alike, these are what you're looking for. California's Sierra Nevada Mtns is the origin. My prices aren't based on the amount of gold contained, but on the fact that it's there; visible to the naked eye; planted inside the host rock by Mother Nature, not by a man's hand. Weight: 8.8 Grains (troy) - .57 Grams Sizes - 8 mm long (each piece) 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 U.S. BUYERS - S & H $4.00 *Combined shipping always offered. Request an invoice on multiple item wins. ATTN: INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS $16.00 S&H via USPS PAYMENTS For U.S. buyers: We accept paypal. For intnl. customers: We accept 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, return it in 'as purchased' condition within 30 days for a refund (S & H not included SUCCESS OR FAILURE Sometimes, it takes years of exploration to determine a claim's true potential; that's if you prospect it thoroughly. You could be looking at gold-bearing ore laying everywhere. Just because placer gold isn't evident, that doesn't necessarily disqualify your entire property. Gold-bearing ground tends to be highly nuanced. If you're looking to buy a claim outright instead of locating and staking one yourself, there's a chance that what someone is promoting, whether placer or lode, holds no minable gold whatsoever. There's a few different scenarios you could find yourself confronted with. Some person could own or gain mineral rights to a claim with minable gold on it, but then never receive the authorization needed to mine. That's the pits, cause without permits, one's mining plans may be DOA. A noble proposal winds up with you shut down, fined, or maybe even losing your equipment. If water usage and permitting is a hangup, maybe your plan of operations doesn't necessitate the use of water. That can actually help your situation. There's other ways to extract 'free gold' from the ground besides sluicing. In this business, creative solutions, thinking outside the box, sometimes produce surprising, easier-than-expected remedies. Call it holistic mining if you will. For instance, consider dry-mining with drywashers or even using metal detectors alone. If ground is rich enough, one should consider a smaller-scale operation altogether. In coarse gold country and in ground that's extremely rich, that may be the answer to your dilemma. Hand-mining could offer the solution. Do what you can to mine because, if you own or acquire minerals rights, then, by golly, it's your right to. With current gold prices, a sturdy, hard-working, driven person with or without a crew would be foolish not to process as much good, gold-bearing gravel as possible by any and every means available. Am I right? Most shallow claims in the lower contiguous 48 states which contained good placer ground at one time have been hammered by three or four generations of miners. One to three foot deep gravels are relatively easy to mine by hand methods. Deeper gravel deposits with undisturbed expanses of ground, on the other hand, may hold gold close to bedrock, but only testing will bear that out. On hard-hit, shallow-bedrock claims, your best opportunity of finding payable amounts of gold lie in recent redeposits of flood gold. With sky-high gold prices, someone using a system designed to capture super-fine gold might fare well reworking old tailings. Also entertain the notion that tailings themselves could be comprised of a high percentage of rich gold ore mixed in with the other non-auriferous, unconsolidated alluvium. With respect to enrichment in recent times, promoters telling you their claim has replenished itself could be accurately describing the claim. What isn't mentioned is 'how much' the claim has been replenished. I seriously doubt many claim promoters know the answer. In some ways, that's advantageous to prospective miner-types. It means ground hasn't actually been prospected in recent times. No two claims are ever quite the same. Comprehensive sampling is imperative if you're ever to prove up a property. Beyond that, better recovery systems have the potential to make formerly unprofitable mines profitable. Beware of ‘plaster miners’ i.e. those who hang papers i.e. 'plaster' a copy of the recorded claim notice on a location monument, but who actually know little to nothing about the attributes or non-attributes of the claim. If the area has a good gold-mining history, here again, you may have found yourself a 'gem in the rough'. Through the years, thousands of barren or unworkable claims were promoted and/or sold to unsuspecting, gullible, neophyte gold miners. Even if a drainage runs through miles of old tailings and virgin (gold-bearing) high bar, another hundred years might not bring down enough gold to replenish your claim to profitability status should gold go to $3000. Conversely, maybe it's a great redeposit. By the way, since this was written several years back, gold has soared past $2000. Occasionally, one finds a river or creek with excellent surface redeposits. What happens sometimes is that gold, if present at all, is concentrated on or near bedrock surrounded by packs of behemoth boulders. How do you test bedrock with twenty or thirty feet of overburden above it and boulders the size of VWs down there? You don't. That's how. Not your average Joe like you or me. You might get lucky enough to score a shallow-bedrock claim containing very few big rocks; a claim which holds surface deposits, bedrock gold, and bench gravel reserves to boot. No one will ever know that until they've tested the ground. Whether you're twenty feet underwater working a boulder pack on bedrock or opening up an ancient terrace five hundred feet above the river-bottom, breaking into 'the bank', i.e. pulling big rocks out of the way so you can access the gravels around and amongst them will undoubtedly pose challenges you had not forseen, were never informed of, and very likely will not be able to overcome. Thanks for checking out my store. I hope you find rich ground ahead. Gold of Eldorado 3-12-13

Price: 38 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2025-01-20T21:19:17.000Z

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