New from PA, have question about gold and fire

[Demori]

Hi! I am staying in Beaver county PA. Me and a friend went up state to fish and I found what I think is gold flakes in a dried up river. Well, they passes all the tests I found on the Internet, sinks to the bottom of water, bends under my nail, isn't magnetic, my friend wants to put a flake in the flame of a lighter. What kind of reaction will that have? Will it do Anything special if it is gold?
Thanks!

 

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[jeff of pa]

probably not., but is he an expert ? of course he may know something I Don't

I have seen Tom Massie from Gold Fever burn old Sluice Carpeting he found
& pan the gold out of the ashes.
so you can't destroy it

You won't get it hot enough to melt with a lighter either.
not even sure you could get it red hot with a lighter

gold is metal so it would react different then stone under heat but ?

perhaps he just wants to see if it burns away.
or gets hot enough to burn his finger

 

[williamsingr]

Stick it with a needle, if it sticks its gold if it crushes its not, sounds like its gold to me

 

[smalltowngirl13]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Sounds like a promising find ...

 

[sparkydog]

Cheap test kits are available which consist of a stone on which you scrape the sample...if it leaves a streak, you apply progressively stronger acid solutions to attempt to dissolve it away...this verifies gold and determines karat composition. Or...take it to a dealer who buys and sells, they have electronic testers which uses conductivity to determine metal type...this could work if they're big enough. Good luck, let us know if it's gold, you'll excite a lot of us Pennsylvanians.

 

[firemac]

welcome- good luck panning