BLUE GOLD QUARTZ BLOOD SPECIMEN GOLD IN QUARTZ .37 GRAM MICROMOUNT

Description

NATIVE GOLD AND 'BLUE QUARTZ' SPECIMEN
from
SIERRA NEVADA MTNS. CALIFORNIA
R
uler is
1/4"
wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
S
pecimen weight:
.37
G
ram
-
5.8
G
rains
S
ize:
9.9X6.4X4.5
mm
T
his chunk of ore hails from the rich Mother Lode mines.
I call it 'blue quartz' yet it's actually more a mix of light and dark grey quartz. It's quite rich in VG (visible gold). Now, if you're wondering about how much gold there is, lets just say 'boo coo'. The specimen may not look that rich in the pictures, but Au permeates much of this small chunk; enough to where a good VLF detector will read it. This is one of the odder pieces of ore I've offered. Mineral collectors and gold enthusiasts who appreciate authenticity and rarity may decide this rock belongs in their collection.
All my specimens show visible gold and are
rare,
authentic
gold quartz specimens.
I don't sell low grade ores. I sell authentic, naturally-occurring gold quartz with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are hard to find and expensive to obtain.
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I poured through old mining dumps for years looking at orange-yellow-rusty rock through a loupe, but I never found a piece with visible gold.
Hydrothermal solutions carrying gold and silica crystallized into veins of gold quartz. This specimen comes from one of the many vein systems existing in the state of California.
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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NOWHERE, ARIZONA
M
y first three summers of prospecting were spent camped beneath
hackberry and cottonwood far down in a deep canyon below Wilhoit aka Nowhere, AZ. Not so long ago, a
dredging associate of mine from Trinity River days said he visited my
old Hassayampa River stomping grounds,
waved his detector up on a high terrace, and
'whammo', picked up a 1.75 oz nugget.
While I have no way of disproving my buddy's claim of origin, such an improbable find seemed more than a bit suspect.
Still, stuff happens and when it does, there's often no rhyme or a reason for it. M
y biggest nugget found during three brutal seasons of  working the Barnes claim weighed ten grains. The claim-owner's largest find after several years of exhaustive mining weighed seven pennyweights. Suffice to say, big nuggets really weren't all that commonplace in these hungry diggins'.
The guff I had to put up with from the claim-holder proved intolerable. Aside from the personal rancor, the prospecting  proved not always enjoyable; but, at the very least, my education in the field was advancing. Lets just end that story on two positive notes. Man, was I elated to depart that miserable hole-in-the-wall. I know my old dredging buddy worked hard to find his prize nugget...wherever it came from, so 'good on him that pays his dues.'
Thanks for checking out our digs.
G
old of
E
ldorado
1-14-13