CALIFORNIA GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .17 GRAM NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ

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CALIFORNIA GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN .17 GRAM NATURAL GOLD IN QUARTZ :
$15.00

NATIVEGOLD QUARTZSPECIMENfrom the MOTHER LODERuler is 1/4\" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter.
Specimen weight: .17Gram -2.6 Grains Size: 7.8X7.2X3.4 mmPoking out from one corner of this strange, little rock is real gold. Your collection may be enhanced with the addition of this sweet, Mother Lode morsel. Admittedly, it is small, but the unusually amber-colored matrix and the yellowness of the gold impelled me to list it as a single item. Featured, Born-in-the-U.S.A., gold-bearing (auriferous) rockis a natural occurrence. I guarantee it or your money back. The bright, yellow gold and colorful host rock are far from synthetic. Allmyrocksshow visible gold and areauthentic. Idon\'t selllow grade gold ores.I sell authentic,naturally-occurring gold quartz ores with visible gold. These high-gradebeautiesarehard to findandexpensive to obtain.
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FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you\'re not happy with this item)I poured through old mining dumps for years looking atorange-yellow-rustyrock through a loupe, but I neverfound a piece with visible gold.Hydrothermal solutions carrying gold and silica crystallizedintoveins of goldquartz.This specimencomes fromone of the manyvein systemssourcingthe immense placer deposits of theSierra Nevada Mtns, the famedMother Lode. Weight Conversions: 15.43 GRAINS = 1 GRAM31.103 GRAMS = 1 TROY OUNCE24 GRAINS = 1 PENNYWEIGHT (DWT) 20 DWT = 1 TROY OUNCE480 GRAINS = 1 TROY OUNCES & H Discounted for combined shipments. U.S. BUYERS & INTNL.

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COLORADO RIVERPOTHOLES

At the Eastern end of Laguna Dam, about ten miles northeast of Yuma, are the Arizona Potholes, where masses of black schist and coarse, granitic gneiss rise steeply for 250 feet above the Colorado River.Erosion of quartz veins in these rocks producedcoarse placer gold. Countless millenia before our present time, this gold had settled into the region\'s ravines. Eventually, after more erosion, these remnant channels, bits and pieces from older drainages, became elevated and now can be found resting atop granite, rhyolite, gneiss, and schist bedrock here in this geological contact zone. While I prospected this area, a smattering of gold could be found by reprocessing old drywasher tailings. No one ever struck it rich here though a few old-timers might have made subsistence wages (i.e. fifty cents a day).

Still on the Arizona side, but further south, traveling to the far end of the Laguna Mountains and crossing the Gila River floodplain, you will encounter thenorth end of theGila Mountains. Driving a few miles up a gravel road will land you near the old ghost town of Gila City, site of an 1800s gold rush. Promising recreational- prospecting opportunities still exist around this mining district.

North of both the Gila mountains and the Laguna mountains across the Colorado River lie the California Potholes where, many years ago, rich placers were encountered and worked.Not far from these diggings, to the West, are the Cargo Muchacho Mountains where washes in the vicinity of the old ghost town of Tumco continue to be producers of placer gold. Somewhat in-between these two districts and further north lies Picacho Peak, another famous old mining district where considerable gold mining has occurred in recent years.

These localmining districts offer interesting playgrounds in the Yuma areafor the novice mining aficionado. Researching a little deeper will disclose many more gold districts throughout this portion of the Arizona and California deserts. Although you arerarely, if ever,assured of finding gold, your chancesare still pretty fair in the old wild west.

It isalways advisable to investigate the claim statusof land inmining districts open to mineral entry. When you see old mine workings and such, there\'s a very good chance the land is under claim, inside the military proving grounds, or on one of the Colorado River Indian Reservations. The Yuma county B.L.M. office is the place to find mining claim status as well asinformation on lands open to mineral entry in Arizona.One possible shortcutwhich might helpavoid much of the run around connected with finding a place to workis to join a gold-mining club with valid claims.

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