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16TO1 MINE GOLD QUARTZ CABOCHON 8.3 CARAT GOLD GEMSTONE For Sale


16TO1 MINE GOLD QUARTZ CABOCHON 8.3 CARAT GOLD GEMSTONE
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16TO1 MINE GOLD QUARTZ CABOCHON 8.3 CARAT GOLD GEMSTONE:
$325.00

CALIFORNIA GOLD QUARTZCABOCHONNATURAL GOLDQUARTZ fromCALIFORNIA
Welcome to Gold of Eldorado!
LISTED ON 11-18-18Here\'s a polished cabochon made from natural gold quartz. It\'s unusually white matrix. The parent rock was extracted from California\'s Original Sixteen to One Mine. When you see it, I believe you\'ll be impressed with both the pattern in gold and it\'s richness. The top, show face is slightly domed, the back face is flat. Before being converted into this gem, it\'s origin was a rich, gold-bearing vein of quartz running through the California hills. Gold is the main attraction in this hand-crafted cab. A striking piece of gemstone, for sure. If you want it, but need it reduced in size, I\'d be happy to mill it downafter you\'ve completed the purchase.As sole proprietor/operator of my store, I\'ve been selling native gold and platinum products here for roughly ten years. Back in the 80s and 90s, I was a full-time placer-miner. There\'s just something about hunting for (and working with) the elusive yellow metal known as gold I found captivating, so much so that it became my life\'s work.As you stroll through my store, expect to find lots of useful prospecting information and stories based upon my own goldfield experiences. If you don\'t know much about gold, gold ores/gold quartz, lapidary,gemology,mineralogy, geology, or mining for gold; if you don\'t care for jewelry at all, justbuy andcachethis beautiful rock shot full of gleaming precious metal. GQ or \'gold quartz\' is, basically, gold ore. When this ore is rich and aesthetic enough, it becomes desirable as jewelry-grade gemstone. For hundreds of years, jewelers have been incorporating it into spectacular, karat-gold, works of art. Almost any kind of rockcan be cut and made into cabs, but GQ is a different mineral altogether because it carries the precious cargo, gold.You would not wish tocrush this type ofstone just to extract the gold from it. That would be akin to crushing gem grade diamond for use as an abrasive. Gem-grade gold quartz isasrare, precious, and beautiful a mineral complex as youwill find on the planet.Weight: 5.8Grains (Troy) - 8.3Carats Dimensions:13.5mm X 11 mmX 2.8mmIf you\'re unfamiliar with gold quartz, it\'s essentially gold ore...very high-grade gold ore. When conditions are just right, super-heated, hydro-thermal solutions, rich in silica and other minerals cool. It is then that metallic minerals, like gold, crystallizes inside these quartz veins. This is part of a process known as metallogenesis. Naturalweathering fromricher portions of these gold veins causes pieces of gold quartz to break off. Nuggets, gold flakes, flour gold, colloidial gold, and placer gold quartz are the result. Dense-enough vein filling whichretains the host matrix rock (that is,quartz)and alsoharbors the precious cargo,gold, can become one of theearth\'s more highly-prizedgemstones. Then, just toliven things up a bit, the mineral characteristics of gold-bearing stone vary from vein tovein resulting in differentmatrix variations (i.e. color, density, et al).The photo is an enlarged representation of the gold rock.Ruler, ifshown, is 1/4\" wide (actual size)If you have any questions, pleaseaskthem prior to offerding. 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&HU.S. BUYERS - S & H $7.00 (tracking and insurance included)
COMBINED SHIPPING OFFERED WHEN YOU BUY MORE THAN ONE ITEM. PLEASE REQUEST AN INVOICE FROMMESO S&H CAN BE COMBINED.INTNL. BUYERS - S&H $28.00 (via Registered mail with tracking)
PAYMENTSFor U.S. buyers: We accept paypalFor intnl. customers: We accept paypal. Pay securely with [link removed by ].Payment must be made within 7 daysfrom close of sale. We ship as soon as funds clear. If you have questions, please ask them before offerding.REFUNDSWe leave no stones unturned insuring our customersget whatthey bargained for.If you\'re not satisfied with thisitem, contact me.Then, if we can\'tcome up with a solutionto our problem,return item within 30 daysin \'aspurchased\'conditionfora refund.NATIVE MINERALS Checkanyand all Gold of Eldorado response for disputesarisingfrom non-authenticity of the specimens I sell. You won\'t find any.Ideal in nativeminerals with visible gold, notreplicas, not\'paint-ons\'.I don\'tpeddle \'simulated\' specimens madewith minute amounts of gold or no real gold at all. No fake nuggets here, folks. I was a professional placer miner myself and personally have bought stuff with gold painted on it. Some so-called\'natural gold quartz\'specimens acquired had tiny chunks of placer goldgluedinto the vugs of barren rock. If folks want to fake their specimens, then it should be mandatory they advertise their products as simulations or replications. All of my advertised specimens,slabs, cabochons, gold oreset alare authentic and containnaturally-occurring, native gold and/orare composedalmost entirelyof naturally-occurring gold (i.e. gold nuggets, gold flakes,wire gold specimens).The purity of this gold will vary, but if it\'s from California, you can count on it being fairly high, from 70% to 90% pure on average. For comparision,a 14Kgold wedding band is 58% pure gold.Theorigin of thisgemstoneis a veinsystem somewhere in theSierraNevadaMtns. ofCalifornia.Thanks forchecking out our digs. I hope you find rich ground ahead. Gold ofEldorado 3-26-16
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