5 year old found this rock!

[n8huntsman]

I spent $1000 on a VLF detector, 300 on a drywasher, 400 on a multi-sluice, plus more on misc. stuff and haven't found anything yet. Haven't tried that hard yet either, but still! We were walking down a trail along the Colorado river near Fort Mohave Arizona (Black Mountains/Oatman area) and saw a bunch of old lead dot cans that piqued my interest. My 5 year old picks up a rock "that looked pretty" and sees a vein in it. She hands it to me and asked if it was gold. To humor her I take a look and what do you know! I sure do believe it is. What do you guys think? It is soft, like the feel of lead, not hard like pyrite when I touch it with tweezers.
Next question, what should I do with it? She wants to get the gold out and put it in a vial. Do you think the rock alone, as-is, would be of more personal value someday?
Also, by the way it's split, can you tell anything about the rock? I was thinking maybe an old miner found it, split it, brought it back and then lost it. The spot is probably 20 miles or so from a well known gold area. If that's the case, what was the old timer looking for in this particular rock? It looks very unassuming without being split open. I wouldn't even have thought it had quartz in it but it sure seems to, along with gold, on the inside. Just trying to figure out what I should be looking for in the future.
Thanks for anything you can provide me with.





edit: Heres a couple more with better color:

 

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[xr7ator]

I have lived here in CO all my life and have seen a whole bunch of shiney or interesting rocks and I don't see any gold in any of your pictures. Gold is unmistakable. It's buttery bright yellow color is, well, nowhere to be seen in your pics!

 

[n8huntsman]

I have lived here in CO all my life and have seen a whole bunch of shiney or interesting rocks and I don't see any gold in any of your pictures. Gold is unmistakable. It's buttery bright yellow color is, well, nowhere to be seen in your pics!

Way to disappoint a five year old! LOL... so what would have this shine and color, but still be soft? It's actually malleable. I was chalking the difference in appearance up to it having been mechanically altered when the rock was split, disrupting the surface. Almost like someone hammered a punch into it.

 

[russau]

About 15 year's our gold club (Show me Gold Prospector's ) went out to a sand and gravel plant to get some fine gold out of they're tailing's race and during a small break we went looking into they're over sized rock pile . we found some nice rock's and when I was ready to give up and go back to my working's my eye caught a glimpse of a rock at eye level and I garbed it !!!! It was a about the size of a large golf ball round split in half and it had a heart shaped center in it of broydrial Hematite !! man was I pumped up and it was close to mother's day!!! That got me again interested in looking for rocks and 20 min's latter i found the other half of it ! Now I'm showing it off to all the club member's and ( at that time our President of our club) (the other rock nut) said it was a very good find. That made my day!

 

[Mountaineer2020]

Might could be gold with quite a bit of silver in it! An alloy? Some gold I've found has been buttery yellow and others more a white. To crush that stuff I welded a piece of pipe to a base plate and SMASH with a 5 foot long axle shaft of nearly the same diameter. Works pretty good. From there you can pan out. Not a fan of the mortar and pestle. Course I'm usually look for little specs of fine gold not big chonky's like that.

 

[Tpmetal]

Crush and pan, you got nothing to lose!

 

[Tesorodeoro]

I see blocky yellowish minerals. If I had to guess I’d say pyrite of some sort. I’d definitely had picked it up to investigate.

Hard telling 100% from pictures.