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NATURAL GOLD AND QUARTZ MINI SPECIMENS .73 GRAM CALIFORNIA MOTHER LODE GOLD
$ 24.81
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Description
NORTH AMERICANNATIVE GOLD & QUARTZ from CALIFORNIA'S MOTHER LODE
P
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.
F
eatured lot consists of small 'pickers' from the California goldfields. Some are mostly quartz, others quite rich, but every piece shows gold. Combined, they weigh a total of 11.3 Grains Troy, i.e. (.73 gram). Not large by any means, 2 to 4 mm long on average, and a poor investment ('cos you're not buying bullion); yet, fans of Au in it's raw, natural state (as found in nature) should enjoy this small lot of high-grade ore samples.
Native gold and quartz - Total wt.
11.3
grains (Troy) -
.73
Gram
A
s owner/mgr. at Gold of Eldorado's, I actively mined for 18+ years. Beginning long ago, in a past life, perhaps, something about the golden mystique of this exotic metal attracted me to it. Searching for native placer (gold), working with it in different forms, and marketing became a life-way. If, like myself, you're a big fan of gold, there's a lot to see here at
Gold of Eldorado
.
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
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U.S. BUYERS - S&H .00 with tracking.
INTNL. BUYERS - S&H .00 shipped via USPS International First Class Mail.
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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.
WATER WHERE IT USUALLY AIN'T
It's mighty gneiss to be mining and suddenly find running water where it usually ain't. One year, our crew of prospector buddies were sniping the Burro Creek placers near Bagdad. Yep, there's a Bagdad in Arizona. It's a community built mainly to house copper miners. A big winter storm blew through and man, did the local gulleys ever run. I hightailed it up north from Quartzsite, unlimbered my green Le Trap, ran some tests, and started sluicing surface gravels from the main wash. Ordinarily, a guy finds nada in surface dirt, but not this time. The claim was an anomaly holding some incredible redeposits, so we ganged up on it, i.e. me, Mark, T-Bone, and Bedrock Bob. It was beautiful. Judging from how much gold our crew pulled, the old timers must have been swimming in gold. In 5 days, I sluiced 1.5 oz in beautiful little nuggies and wire gold. 'Bedrock' got a sweet half ouncer he wanted to make a pendant from, so he asked me to wrap it in gold wire. Those were fun times. A young Twin Falls buddy cannabalized my 11 H.P. Honda, fired up his 5" dredge
, and wound up dredging these normally dry placers for better than a month. Man, that was some beautiful jewelry-grade gold.
That now seems like about a hundred years ago, back in my itinerant mining/rustic jeweler days.
Who doesn't get a kick out of the 'No Fishing' sign
posted on the Hassayampa River bridge near Wickenburg.
That witty warning must have been
dreamed up by the followers of Dick Wick Hall, a famed Arizona humorist who, while in Salome, concocted a short story about 'Where She Danced'.
Be careful out there. She's warmed up. The shaketails have crawled out from their dens.
Thanks for checking out my store.
G
old of Eldorado 6-5-12