Gold Ore

[southfork]

A little sample that was found with a metal detector. Crushed by hand then panned to wash away some of the dirt and clay? The photo is macro so real small particles, but the quartz shows and what looks like iron and free gold. I think we need a small smelter to retrieve the values trying to speed up the recovery what's your thoughts ?

 

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[southfork]

With all the rain headed your way, there might be some good panning in the streams.

Just settled the dust a little.

 

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[southfork]

We have a new prospect well not new but unworked by us until now. A series of prospect holes in a straight line on our property my son has been cleaning all the forest litter out of the pits and metal detecting. He has found a number of small specimen pieces we have soaking for cleaning. We also have been hauling totes full of material to mill and finding small amounts of gold. The host rock is full of clay like material and takes a lot of time to process but free milling. Looks like the early miners were sorting by hand and hauling on mules to an unknown location. Yesterday was a maintenance and repair day new chains and put a syphon on my ribbed recirculating sluice changed angle to handle this lighter material. I have a couple of buckets worth to sluice today and some rocks to crush that made the old GMT scream.

 

[southfork]

Good morning first cup of coffee just sitting here thinking about recovering values from our latest dig. It seems like all of this rock and soil has micro amounts of gold I've had milled material soaking for days in buckets with soap / detergent trying to drop the gold out of this slurry. I added a couple of small brazing rods across the slick plate of my ribbed sluice basically clay brakes. They slow the clay and slurry down so it has time to have better liquidity before traveling across the ribbed sluice. Keeps the snotty clay from rolling across the sluice and stealing almost invisible gold. I have the first tote washed now to clean the concentrates hoping for a couple of grams to keep me motivated. I can see gold in the concentrates without a loupe so a good sign. If it was all pickers it would be so easy. Happy Mining

 

[southfork]

Good morning first cup of coffee just sitting here thinking about recovering values from our latest dig. It seems like all of this rock and soil has micro amounts of gold I've had milled material soaking for days in buckets with soap / detergent trying to drop the gold out of this slurry. I added a couple of small brazing rods across the slick plate of my ribbed sluice basically clay brakes. They slow the clay and slurry down so it has time to have better liquidity before traveling across the ribbed sluice. Keeps the snotty clay from rolling across the sluice and stealing almost invisible gold. I have the first tote washed now to clean the concentrates hoping for a couple of grams to keep me motivated. I can see gold in the concentrates without a loupe so a good sign. If it was all pickers it would be so easy. Happy Mining

Finished cleanup used mercury to collect all the fine gold I see a fat button in the near future. My son is going back out this evening and fill another tote from the same area.

 

[Garscale]

Fat buttons are the bestest

 

[southfork]

My son Seth brought me a rock that sounded off on the detectors my old GMT was squawking on it also. Got out the loupe nothing showing maybe a couple of flyspecks. A quick crush and hidden treasure the mills made little dirty gold balls. Still have more to pan the concentrates are very heavy red sands hard to drop the micro gold. Maybe dry and melt so easy to crush but loaded with the red mud that I've been sluicing for days. The rock spilt off in layers so I could have a good look no gold showing but all's well that ends well. Home grown gold.

 

[southfork]

My son has been clearing brush and forest litter off some old gold rush diggings on our land. Then metal detecting layer by layer and finding some specimens and ore samples for me to play with.

 

[southfork]

I milled and sluiced then blue bowled about three sandwich baggies of rock my son dug out of a seam. That was sounding off on the Knox. Nice little pinch looks like a couple of grams? I'll pick it up with a snuffer then mercury gets what's hiding in the fines. I can ride a quad right up to the diggings a little excitement for the old guy. Even with a loupe it was hard to see any values in this material, but it came out of hiding.

 

[Red_desert]

Nice! Good to see people are still out there in spite of the weather.

 

[southfork]

Nice! Good to see people are still out there in spite of the weather.

Great weather here 85 degrees and a breeze.

 

[Red_desert]

74 here and will go back to 80s again.

 

[southfork]

Today was a little poor half bucket of milled material two flyspecks and some ultra fine dust. But I haven't cleaned the chain mill yet could still be a pinch.

 

[southfork]

My son was cleaning forest litter out of an old prospect hole yesterday and found a couple bits. Metal detector finds.

 

[desertgolddigger]

My son was cleaning forest litter out of an old prospect hole yesterday and found a couple bits. Metal detector finds.

That's beautiful. Please don't melt that. You probably can get twice what the gold is worth from a collector.

 

[southfork]

A little crush from new detector finds and a melt nugget 5.8 grams. Nice clean looking gold wish we had a bucket full.

 

[desertgolddigger]

A little sample that was found with a metal detector. Crushed by hand then panned to wash away some of the dirt and clay? The photo is macro so real small particles, but the quartz shows and what looks like iron and free gold. I think we need a small smelter to retrieve the values trying to speed up the recovery what's your thoughts ?

Sure looks promising. I think I see lots of little gold trapped in the material. Will be interested in your results.

 

[southfork]

Sure looks promising. I think I see lots of little gold trapped in the material. Will be interested in your results.

Old post but I think it turned out good.

• Apr 22, 2022

 

[desertgolddigger]

Old post but I think it turned out good.

• Apr 22, 2022

Darn, It flashed up on my notifications as a new post. Glad it turned out good.

 

[southfork]

This mornings crush about 50 grams of rock no gold showing. But it made the detector sing maybe a couple grams of gold. A pinch a day keeps us on the hunt Happy mining.

 

[desertgolddigger]

This mornings crush about 50 grams of rock no gold showing. But it made the detector sing maybe a couple grams of gold. A pinch a day keeps us on the hunt Happy mining.

If there's a high enough concentration of the super fine gold, then maybe when you get it all turned to powder, you'll get that gold the detector said is there. I wonder if where the detector found that rock, that deeper might be something more.