Was panning for gold the other day

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smokeythecat

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Since it's a quartz matrix, are you going to crush it to look for gold or other heavy minerals? The dark spots are either iron minerals or garnets.
 

placertogo

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Highly mineralized. Before crushing it I would have someone run over it with a very sensitive gold detector. It could have a nice vein of gold inside and have more value cut open as a specimen than crushed and panned for values.
 

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might be could be only one way to find out
 

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Crush images coming soon. The inside looks incredible.
 

johnedoe

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Dissolve it in acid.... If there is a gold matrix it could be worth a fortune....
 

Doug H

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That's hilarious...I know nothing about gold and if I ran across that I'd throw it in the river as just another rock.
 

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