Jim, I believe jewelers, if one ore specimen has both gold in white quartz and gold in hematrite stained quartz, they would choose the gold in white quartz to make a jewelry. And this maybe because the gold makes more contrast and looks better.
IMO, the LDM inclined shaft has this type of gold in quartz because of the hematite vein which runs parallel with the white quartz, and at the point where the hematite join the white quartz , is inevitable the white quartz to be not stained by the hematite , giving to it a reddish color.
I believe also how what has been " seen " as a rose quartz in all the accounts referring to Superstitions gold, in reallity was hematite stained quartz. Tales of Superstitions gold showed us how out there are only three types of gold in quartz : white quartz , hematite and hematite stained quartz. These are the geological features which would lead to gold in the Superstitions, and the Peraltas knew that.
Natural Gold Indicators (Part 1) - Gold Geology Lesson - RareGoldNuggets.com
Lets look at the NP's ore( pic shot by NP ) from the " knob " mine in the Superstitions. This mine is one of the Peraltas and is depicted in a map. The ore was shot at the mine's spot and as you can see has both gold in white quartz and gold in stained hematitite quartz.
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Is a real example of what happened whith the LDM ore when was made a jewelry. We can see on the LDM jewelries only the white quartz and some peole can swear the LDM quartz was white, but what would be happened if the jewelers would choose to use the hematite stained quartz? We would swear the LDM ore had hematite stained ( rose ) quartz?
Is anybody still searching for the LDM after NP pic? Is more rich ore than the 30% gold from the LDM inclined shaft.