NATURAL GOLD AND QUARTZ CONCENTRATES .74 GRAM CALIFORNIA MOTHER LODE GOLD

Description

NORTH AMERICAN
NATIVE GOLD & QUARTZ CONCENTRATE from California's Mother Lode
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hotos are enlarged representations of offered item.   R
uler, if shown, is
1/4"
wide (actual size). A U.S. dime (10 cent piece) measures 17.5 mm in diameter.
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his listing is for authentic, high-grade ore. Parcel consists mainly of quartz, ironcap, and gold. Several different Mother Lode mining districts supplied the material in this lot. It might better be described as concentrates. Particles average 1 mm wide and smaller. There's no way of knowing how many vein systems it came from. Acquired from a collector of rare gold quartz specimen, this is a mix of free gold, pinpricks of sand, bits of quartz and ironcap, some with visible gold attached. It makes great locket filler and looks terrific in a water-filled vial. It's not 'Hollywood gold', the kind you see floating in water. Don't those city slickers know how heavy gold is?
If not satisfied, return this product for your money back.
Native gold and quartz concentrate - Total wt.
11.5
grains (Troy)  -
.74
Gram (metric)
A
s operator/sole proprietor at Gold of Eldorado, I actively mined gold for 18+ years. Beginning long ago, in a past life, perhaps, something in the golden mystique of this exotic metal attracted me to it. Searching for native placer and lode, working with it in a multitude of forms, and marketing became a life-way. If, like myself, you're a big fan, not of me, but of Oro, there's a lot to see here at
Gold of Eldorado
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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
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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. If we can't resolve the problem, you may return item in  'as purchased' condition (within 30 days) for a refund. Exchanges are another option.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (IN GOLD)
Sometimes, it takes years to know if a claim's worth hanging onto or not. Once they've filed a location notice, the new claim owner obtains rights to locatable minerals such as gold. Most gold mining properties occur on what's known as an unpatented claim. A patented claim is private, deeded land. Owning deeded land, typically, though not always, includes ownership of the mineral rights as well.
One of my Arizona claims shelled out a few ounces of wire-gold nuggets. Problem was, it took ten years worth of hard toil and  La Paz County sweat to gather it. The gold was scattered about in nugget patches close to the surface, spread out across a 100 meter wide swathe of pediment.
Once the gold clawed it's way, one morsel at a time, into my poke, it was slim pickings after that. Later on, I quit-claimed the property to a caretaker, but always wondered what lay buried inside some deeper gravels and caliche beds.
Gold-bearing properties are highly nuanced. A claim, much like mine did, can hold placer very close to
the surface. Once that's skimmed off, the gold may be all but exhausted. Any chance of finding more of any consequence may be all but nonexistent. Other times, the minable gold is all deeply buried in alluvial beds far beneath thousands of yards of overburden. If they thought gold might be on bedrock, nothing prevented the old timers from digging shafts to find out. Basically, it was like digging a well by hand with no idea how far down water might be. They would burrow a hundred feet just to check out what was on the basement level i.e. the point at which they couldn't dig any further without shooting country rock. Back in my mining heyday, I knew miners who dug coyote holes one bucketful at a time. It's incredibly 'teejus' work. Who wants to invest all that labor in what, most likely, will be just another dry hole?
Whether you're a cheechako or a seasoned sourdough, there's nothing better than virgin ground. Finding an untapped, never-before-worked placer represents one's best chances for recovering impressive sums of gold. Witness the thousands of ounces mined by TV's Gold Rush miners up in the Yukon. Of course, every day they're pushing thousands of yards of aggregate around on D11 Cats and running it through 500 yard/hour wash plants. HC! On a good day, I used to process 2 yards of dirt. Using a dredge, maybe that volume was pumped up to five yards. From what I've seen, most of those Canadian miner's production comes from untapped ground. To be honest, I've not had many experiences working virgin paydirt. I've seen it, read about it, and mined some here and there. Believe me, that's what a prospector lives for. In my day, most claims I worked on had no virgin, auriferous dirt left, so I worked redeposits instead. In the desert, my best paystreaks were found by dry-washing the deepest parts of washes. Even then, it was always newly-deposited flood gold.
During intervening years, the interval between when washes, creeks, and rivers were last worked and the present day, intermittent, periodic floods erode drainages. Turbulent waters cut through old tailings, abandoned diggings, and sometimes wash over virgin clip zones. Picture how a violent gulley-washer tears through the local washes, arroyos, and canyon systems. New gold will often wash down and be re-concentrated. It's been born out by personal observation that lost gold from yesteryear continues to replenish watersheds. Be advised the amount of gold coming down may not be of much consequence. It all depends on how much gold was in the surrounding environs to begin with. 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. author: Gene Ralph
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old of Eldorado 6-5-12