Looking in all wrong places

[Boarteats]

Clearly, I’ve been looking in the wrong places for local gold. I’ve been digging dirt and panning getting excited when I get a couple of gold flakes and some silver. Live and learn, I guess.

Used my Falcon MD20 to find rocks that might have gold. Picked up a tiny piece of white quartz maybe 1 x 2 x 0.5 inches. Crushed and panned. Found the following.

 

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[Jason in Enid]

You found a penny inside a quartz rock?! thats crazy!

 

[Boarteats]

You found a penny inside a quartz rock?! thats crazy!

Lol. Haven’t been trolled in a while.

In the event that I wasn’t clear:

1. Penny is placed in pic for scale.

2. Pic was taken to show the soft, malleable, yellow metal at bottom of image. Presumably, this is gold but will not know 100% until I test it. Conceivably, could be copper but not the right color.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Looks like less than a tenth of a grain of gold so you would need nearly three pennies to buy that much gold.

Heavy Pans

 

[Wiggler]

Perty sure Boarteats was makin a funny . I got it ; ) It was kinda funny . Any gold found ( like yours) keeps me goin' ! I LIKE GOLD ; )

WIGG

 

[Boarteats]

Looks like less than a tenth of a grain of gold so you would need nearly three pennies to buy that much gold.

Heavy Pans

True, but ...

Success is relative. 3 cents per hour is a huge improvement over .01 cents per hour. Woot!

 

[Boarteats]

This is crazy town. Crushed up a few additional quartz pieces approximately same size as first.

Might be working up to 50 cents per hour!

 

[Jason in Enid]

now you just need to build a stamp mill and crush it by the ton!

 

[Goldwasher]

crazy cause a falcon doesn't sound on gold that small

 

[Boarteats]

crazy cause a falcon doesn't sound on gold that small

Of course, it does. That's what it's for. That's how I found the quartz that gold came from.

Has a broad range of sensitivity settings. It will catch even one piece of flour gold. However, in this case, gold has to be within .5 inches or less in front of sensor ...if in rock. This is my experience, at least.

"Problem" with falcon is that will signal on ANY type of nonferrous metal and sometimes even some nonmetals. It's helpful but not perfect.

 

[Boarteats]

now you just need to build a stamp mill and crush it by the ton!

Hoping that property owner will still let me look for gold on her land after I show her the gold that I pulled from her quartz. ...Also, it's all alluvial, so would be happy if I could find 100lbs of this rock. Whole area was an alluvial plane in ancient history.

Original quartz vein is probably hidden away under someone's house or strip mall. ...sigh...