MAZATLAN GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN 2.22 GRAMS MEXICO GOLD IN QUARTZ

Description: GOLD QUARTZ SPECIMEN from MEXICO Ruler is 1/4" wide (6 mm). U.S. 10 cent coin is 17 mm in diameter. Specimen weight: 2.22 Gram - 34.3 Grains Size: 16.3X10.7X7.6 mm Metallic, yellow gold beams from one corner of this mixed black and white pebble. According to my source, he purchased it from a Mexican roadside vendor back in 1971, it's origin somewhere in the Sierra Madre Mtns. near Mazatlan, Mexico. The Au is readily visible. The matrix is predominantly a white silicate quartz. Associated are other dark mineral, one allegedly galena, the other, a golden mineral filling the mid-section which appears to be chalcopyrite. It's cool ore with a sizable bleb of oro. Your collection of micromounts should welcome this rock. For those who've kept track of my store these past several years, you'll know I don't sell low-grade specimens. If it shows gold, it can't be low grade ore. I deal in naturally-occurring gold ores with visible gold. These high-grade beauties are hard to find and expensive to obtain. My prices aren't based upon quantity of gold contained, but on the fact that it's there. U.S. SHIPPING - $4.00 (includes USPS tracking to all U.S. destinations) INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS S&H $16.00 FAST REFUND OFFERED (If, for any reason, you're not happy with this item) 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. 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 Discounted for combined shipments. U.S. BUYERS & INTNL. PAYMENTS For U.S. buyers: We accept paypal For intnl. customers: We accept paypal. Pay securely with www.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, contact me. Then, if the problem can't be fixed, return product within 30 days in 'as purchased' condition for a full refund MY FIRST NUGGET My first nugget was discovered back in the summer of 1980. It arrived compliments of Arizona's Hassayampa river. For the better part of the year, no surface water ran across her gravelly beds, only a few stagnant, mosquito-infested pools left behind as a reminder of wetter times. The word was that beneath several feet of sediment, aqua ran on bedrock, thus her nickname, the Upside Down River. Boy, did we miss not having a real, running stream to draw water from. This water scarcity forced our cadre of small-scale miners to improvise using slower, less efficient methods for processing gold-bearing gravels. Most of us manned rocker-boxes or drywashers. Actually, I was the only hombre around who was using a dip-box. Recirculating water stored in a large barrel allowed me to use this simple device. Later, I graduated to a drywasher. Clayey gravels could be shoveled directly onto the classifier screens of this contraption and water became unnecessary except for panning cons. In year's past, the lower bowels of the river had been scooped up by operators of big, bucket-line dredges. Numerous, neatly-stacked piles of expelled boulders provided hard evidence. One always wondered at the efficiency of these 'doodlebugs'. Considering how many different ways one can lose gold, I've little doubt bedrock would be profitable to mine if only it could be cleaned with a suction dredge. At higher levels, isolated portions of the old river channel remained intact. These alluvial remnants offered argonauts a chance to get their noses wet. Locate the right spot along some clay bank and one might stumble on a smidgeon of ‘color’. It was from one of these ancient terrace fragments my first sizable piece of gold came. My nugget wasn't a giant, only the size of a pea, but until you've found your first, you can't possibly know what a thrill it is. From my perspective, it looked like a golden golf ball. Oddly enough, some other miner had lost it, or intentionally planted it along with several more nice flakes in a pile of discarded cons. I suspect the latter. Maybe the pile was salted in hopes of duping some unsuspecting seeker of prime mining properties. As for my interest, I was just looking for a lay (i.e. a lease). Unfortunately for the claim promoter, I came along and found his salted-gold first. However mighty clunker came about bothered me not in the least because it represented a timely, unexpected gift; a reward from the The Great Prospector in the Sky for months of hot, hard work. Trust me, these were 'hungry diggins'; miserable climes where, if the green Mojaves didn't kill you, the no-see-ums drove a man insane. Like many an avid miner, I carried recent finds in a small glass vial. An unwritten code insisted that every hour or so, gold had to taken from one’s pocket to marvel. How that oro glowed in the Arizona sunshine. Liquid always had to be crystal clear, but if it became murky, just hearing that gold clinking on the glass was almost enough to satisfy the itch. Such is the nature of unwritten laws in the old wild west and the characters they apply to. Miners are a thorny, uncomplicated bunch and Arizona the perfect setting for those with a hankering to live off the grid far from the babbling horde. In the depths of the Bradshaw Mountains, those of us ‘teched in the hed' and burning up with gold fever found ourselves very much in our element. It’s miserable, desolate country and remains as rugged and inhospitable as it ever was. Hungry miners have lots in common with the horned toad, the shaketail, and the prickly pear and have been known to 'wet our whistles' every now and then. Entering a neighbor's camp, it wasn't unusual to find jackrabbit stew simmering over hot coals from the prior evening's fire. After 3 or 4 days suspended in a grimy Dutch oven, a good mulligan grows robust provided you can keep sand out of the stewpot. Weary souls stumbling into my encampment, if they took a mind to, could grab a bowl and dig in. Added to our kettle, along with jackrabbits and cottontails, were band-tail pigeons, gambel quail, and the odd serpent. Javelina were also plentiful in the heavy, chaparral thickets. Razor-tusked adults are easily rendered succulent by pitting and covering overnight. Above ground, prolonged pot-cooking tends to soften up pretty much any kind of tough bush meat. Being a country boy by nature, spending entire seasons in Arizona’s rugged, outback territories seemed kinda natural and I dug it. Thanks for checking out our digs. Gold of Eldorado 1-14-13

Price: 45 USD

Location: Banks, Oregon

End Time: 2024-10-16T23:58:28.000Z

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