i believe this is the correct color

[zemetrius]

regrettably my phone does not like trying to focus on really small things up close.

4 pieces of very small gold, these were in the material in the glass vial.

 

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[SD51]

Cool, that's more Gold flakes than I've ever found!

 

[smokeythecat]

Well, this is something new to me. I'll bet it is gold.

 

[docweiser]

Finding placer Gold is an experience that is hard to describe. It's not all about the monetary value. Swirling around that dirt in the pan until almost nothing but the heavier materials are left in the pan and seeing those bright yellow particles usually in a nice contrast provided by the jet black magnetite is just a rewarding experience. It makes for a great family day out and having that glass vial with your found Gold on the kitchen table is priceless.

I've taken mom (84 now) Gold panning from California to Maine and she loves bringing out those vials at family events. Work your way upstream until it stops

 

[mike(swWash)]

Congratulations, you're now a sick puppy like the rest of us here.
The 1st is the hardest to find and most rewarding no matter how small or few
Looks like gold but kinda hard to tell in the pic. Fill the vial with water and it will magnify them some. My field test is to put shade over it and if it still has a gold color then it's the real deal.

 

[zemetrius]

water already in there with the color stuff.

 

[zemetrius]

red ball is head of a safety pin acquired from the smarter (as in does not look for gold) half of my family.

gold in shadow
gold in the light

piece number #5 is much smaller and went straight into the bottle with the other 4 pieces.

this is piece #6 it is much bigger and the camera on my phone could see it quite well.

 

[zemetrius]

here you see 2 pieces of gold in the light

now you only see one in the shadow.

almost like magic this is,

the colors are off as i am trying out a new camera on my phone, other camera is really being a pain.

 

[zemetrius]

found new app for my droid, has a microscope button, seems to work nice,
gold in light

gold in shadow.

not a name dropper by nature, got these images with this:

 

[zemetrius]

 

[Eh U Guyz]

Now you will be hooked! Here is A quick pan form one of our customers survey I worked on last night to show the nice gold color. This is from a hard rock mine. It was a small sample of 5lbs. He is one happy miner! After crushing down to 200 mesh and running across our water table it came out to 3.7 ounce per tonne!

 

[zemetrius]

these 50 mesh things are bad enough, anything smaller than my 100 mesh screen, i put in a 2 liter bottle and drop in some mercury, i have the bottle sitting in a home depot bucket full of water, every day i give it a good shake then back in the bucket.

 

[ptdub]

You need to buy some gold paydirt and than you’ll know what you’re looking for. That’s not gold these posts are always frustrating to readz

 

[Boarteats]

I do a couple few things when I'm questioning if I have flour gold or flour nooooo-ld.

1. Get cheap magnifying glass or jeweler's loop with at least x25 magnification. Take a look at flakes under magnification. If gold, you'll be able to see a warm gold color that can be seen in both light and shade. Should give you that "wow, it's so beautiful" feeling.

2. Put flake on flat, hard surface. Mash flake with back of a spoon or equivalent. Gold will flatten and deform. Gold flakers (i.e., not gold) will typically crumble into dust.

3. If you have any fine black sands such as magnetite. Toss a small amount black sands and your flakes into a gold pan. Swirl stuff around. Gold will typically just sit on bottom of pan while other stuff moves around. Just be sure to put a little jet dry or equivalent into water to counter effects of water surface tension.

 

[Boarteats]

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these 50 mesh things are bad enough, anything smaller than my 100 mesh screen, i put in a 2 liter bottle and drop in some mercury, i have the bottle sitting in a home depot bucket full of water, every day i give it a good shake then back in the bucket.

Then, how do you part gold from mercury?

 

[zemetrius]

at this time, i must store it away till a later date. i am going to go with nitric acid once i need to process the mercury, not going to go the retort route, i believe i will get more of mercury back using nitric.

 

[N-Lionberger]

Why do you think that? If you retort properly you won't lose anything and you don't have to mess with acid. Also better ways of dealing with the fines than pulling the merc card.