Hi, I am really desperate and a Newbie at that! I have just recently found .. very fine Gold foil like shavings after pulling a stump out of the ground for fire wood. Not noticing it at first until we had gone back and the sun hit the ground just at the perfect time for me and my partner to notice all the gold flickering from the dirt that came out of the ground by the stump roots.
We brought home a box of dirt so we could investigate it a little more (mind you I have just bought a property right next to an old open cut mine -and there are old mine shafts everywhere only metres of the fence line - I think it was one of the largest open cut in NSW Aust) Anyway.. we ran a handful of dirt through a sieve and there was loads of this "gold foil" but it is so thin that if you pressed it too hard on a rough surface it would leave like a gold coloured smudge.
I guess my question is;
How the Heck do ya separate this stuff from the dirt? keep in mind this stuff is as thin as "tobacco paper" some of it is even thinner and as fragile.
I haven't been game enough to try and separate it with water as I think it might wash out (have never used a pan! Ever!! and I don't even own a pan.. lol )
Would love to know your thoughts - and I am so sorry if this question has been asked many of times before.
We brought home a box of dirt so we could investigate it a little more (mind you I have just bought a property right next to an old open cut mine -and there are old mine shafts everywhere only metres of the fence line - I think it was one of the largest open cut in NSW Aust) Anyway.. we ran a handful of dirt through a sieve and there was loads of this "gold foil" but it is so thin that if you pressed it too hard on a rough surface it would leave like a gold coloured smudge.
I guess my question is;
How the Heck do ya separate this stuff from the dirt? keep in mind this stuff is as thin as "tobacco paper" some of it is even thinner and as fragile.
I haven't been game enough to try and separate it with water as I think it might wash out (have never used a pan! Ever!! and I don't even own a pan.. lol )
Would love to know your thoughts - and I am so sorry if this question has been asked many of times before.
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