Found GOLD in the BRADSHAWS......updated by db

[DanB]

This rock tips the scales just over 20 lbs.......Found today in the Bradshaws.... .....just stumbled on to it.....walking in a fresh (new) river bed.....carved out by a winter storm....
This thing makes the metal detector SCREAM.....
db

[mamabear]

nice find. what is the matrix rock? would that it were gold! but here's hoping for ya

[rogues71]

nice rock, you found it in the bradshaws in az? drop me a line if you ever need a hunting buddy good luck on the next trip

[SkyPirate]

How much of the 20 Lbs. is gold?

[DanB]

not sure.....have to do more tests....just found it less than 5 hrs ago......acid test says its good, I am going to have to cut a piece off crush it and throw it in to the blast furnace and do an assay....that will take me some time.....I am wondering the same as well.


db

[CMDiamonddawg]

should be worth more than a shiny penny

[pepperj]

Hope the next step works out well.

[cuzcosquirrel]

Nice. I found a gold seam along a piece of broken bedrock in a stream one time but the gold was paper thin like it had been plated. I also picked up a piece of quartz on C Street in Virginia City that had a decent silver clump and vein going through it. The darkness in the quartz beside the gold might be a silver salt.

[Addict]

Very nice best of luck and lots of gold wishes for you!

[cuzcosquirrel]

Hope you marked where you found it. This might start a new "lost mine" legend.

[neal S.]

That is wicked cool!!!!!!!!
have you weighed it in water yet to get the actual gold weight?
If the Rock is 20lbs there could be 1-4 LBS of that stuff we hunt.
12,000.00 per lb woooooooooooooooooooooooow!!!!

VERY VERY EXCELLENT FIND!

hhta
Neals

[RPG]

Just the gold I'm seeing on the outside of that rock makes this a banner find.

My vote is in.

[jeff of pa]

I need a Confirmation On this One From you.

Definately Gold ? or Pyrite ?

Etc.

Let us know

ASAP

Jeff

[gemee]

If that IS gold, HOW would you get it seperated from the rock?? WOW!

[Historyhound]

not sure.....have to do more tests....just found it less than 5 hrs ago......acid test says its good, I am going to have to cut a piece off crush it and throw it in to the blast furnace and do an assay....that will take me some time.....I am wondering the same as well.


db

Nice chunk, I'd say it would be worth alot more, as a specimen left whole, than it would for only it's gold content.

[strickman]

[size=10pt][/size]BANNER FIND FOR SURE my jaw is on the FLOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[strickman]

DAN THE MAN!!!!!!!wow that is spectactular!!!you have got to post this in the gold section as well.man i bet you are still shaking!i would have had a heart attack!i need this as wallpaper to remind me of what i'm supposed to be finding!

[strickman]

definantly leave whole do not crush!!!!!!!worth a LOT more as a specimen!!!!!!!!!!!you could name your own price for that one!!!!it is definantly worth way more than the spot price for gold!!!!!!!!!several times over!!!!rock weight too!!!!!!!!there are formulas to figure the gold content!but with that much in matrix is phenominal!!!!!!!!museums would drool!!!and the owner of the nuggett in las vegas would definantly drool!!!i bet he would fly you out free just to see it!!!!

[Deepdiger60]

What a find wow ! inced-able i dont understand how does weighing the stone in water determine the weight of the gold ? i hope it works out well

[neal S.]

http://www.prospectorsparadise.com/h...ic_weight.html
this will explain the water issue
hhta
neals