🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Alluvial Gold?

[Jackstraw20]

A friend sent me a photo of what he says is alluvial gold he has found in ancient riverbeds in Colorado over the years. Can anyone verify if he is correct and this is truly "alluvial gold."
Thanks very much!

 

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[crashbandicoot]

Well we haven't had power since a thu

We haven't had any power since a bad thunderstorm rolled through our area.
Most of the Eastern Ontario is dark.
Old generator 💪

Sorry to hear that pepp,we,re supposed to get it later tonight.

 

[traveller777]

Pepper and crash. IfI had a lot of gold I would help you, but alas, I have none. If we only knew some kind soul that had lots of gold to help us. Let us all think golden thoughts and maybe help will come our way.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Tell us more about melting gold by putting it in boiling water...

 

[crashbandicoot]

3 dead, 350,000 without power.
Looks like might have to get fuel tomorrow. ⛽️
Should prove interesting when there's no power.
Wish I had Jackstraw's poke. I'd install an automatic switch over type generator.

I,ll second that auto switch generator.Went into the local EXXON to get a can of snuff and they were out of gas.As in none for sale,didn,t affect my can of snuff but being out of gas at a station here hasn,t happened since 1973 or whenever it was.Damndest thing I,ve ever seen.OOps,almost made a political comment!

 

[traveller777]

I,ll second that auto switch generator.Went into the local EXXON to get a can of snuff and they were out of gas.As in none for sale,didn,t affect my can of snuff but being out of gas at a station here hasn,t happened since 1973 or whenever it was.Damndest thing I,ve ever seen.OOps,almost made a political comment!

Hard not to. I admire your resistance. MUST. RESIST. THE. DARK. FORCE.

 

[traveller777]

7.00 plus change a can.Working my way to quitting!

Not sure what last price I paid. I used to dip but been many years ago.really liked it.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Not sure what last price I paid. I used to dip but been many years ago.really liked it.

Used to dip a can every 2 days or so.I,m down to about a can every ten days and working to quitting.Too expensive.I really do enjoy it.

 

[traveller777]

Any riches will be put to bettering this dark world and spreading light, positivitivity, and good vibes. I am basically not in to material things, mostly just helping humanity.

Any progress on assays, partner?

 

[pepperj]

I am packaging up some samples at the moment! Do you have any companies you would recommend? I am sending in two sample that have platinum & Palladium, one of which is sulfides bronzitite. so they need to have the equipment to test for that. I'm sending 2 tellurides (one calavarite and one silvanite) to get a feel for their silver & gold contents. Plus 10 -20 grams of all those pieces that could be alluvial gold. I found a tremendous amount more today 100 grams plus because of the mid may snow melt we just had from that storm a few days ago. Once again I wasn't trying to collect today,j ust being observant on a frontage trail next to a river. It was easy to notice areas where the rocks and especially heavy rocks were picking their favorite 'trail' to get down to the river. The pieces looked much shinier and new because they had just traveled down hill by snow melt over the last 2 days.

Other than those pieces, I also have some serious heavy gold ore that I would have loved assailed. I will post a few samples with this post, but I don't want to just break off a piece and send that in. My shipping costs and fees are already going to be quite high, that's why I'm asking advice on what types of ores are going to help me in the long run. I have and ancient gold ingot (I will include a pic) that does test at approximately 19 karate.

I also do own a Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II metal detector an virtually all of my gold ore was popping hot for gold consistently. This was after I had copied down or re-written the entire owners manual so I would be more on the advanced level of things when testing and operating the stone.

Any ideas or suggestions for a top notch, trustworthy, & no B.S surprises assay company, (closer to Colorado, the better) or which types of ores would be best to have assayed so that I can easily find a buyer or someone who has the technology and sees that it is worth processing because of the high graded assay report. These suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I will keep you updated.

John

Your in the state of Colorado which probably has many Assay companies that will process your samples. Just in a quick 3 minute look in the Google search I have seen many that would suit your needs as this one.

ASSAYER Gold and Silver mining

ASSAYER Gold and Silver mining

fireassayer.com

 

[crashbandicoot]

It is starting to appear to be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

I thought that was Russia?

 

[Tesorodeoro]

What is on your mind specifically? Do you think there might be gold in the sample photos? I don't know a lot about it but I don't think anyone could reliably determine whether there is gold in the samples or not based on the photos posted.

As for the OP, their story changed a lot over the course of the thread so that is a red flag for me. Maybe they'll post more but I don't know what to make of any of it for now.

Oh don’t mind me. I’m still getting rid of that taste of sour grapes. Little sarcasm that didn’t come across correctly. Sorry. The gold goose chase will always persist.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

All the bits in the pans appear to be fragments broken up from a larger whole that was of uniform thickness. I would rule out gold.

But then I'm not a prospector or geologist.

 

[Jackstraw20]

Thank you for the response everyone! Would it be a good idea for the samples to be sent to an assayer to be tested? If so what kind of assay should be done on these types of samples?
Thanks again,

John

 

[traveller777]

Thank you for the response everyone! Would it be a good idea for the samples to be sent to an assayer to be tested? If so what kind of assay should be done on these types of samples?
Thanks again,

John

I will tell you what I would do. Take a hammer and hit some of the bigger chunks, especially the ones with cracks, and see if the shatter and break into buts and dust or if they are malleable.

 

[traveller777]

I will tell you what I would do. Take a hammer and hit some of the bigger chunks, especially the ones with cracks, and see if the shatter and break into buts and dust or if they are malleable.

I am fairly certain you are going to find it crumbles and is not malleable

 

[Jackstraw20]

I will tell you what I would do. Take a hammer and hit some of the bigger chunks, especially the ones with cracks, and see if the shatter and break into buts and dust or if they are malleable.

I Soaked them all in Sulphuric Acid for 6 days and they didn't lose any color, I also boiled them and they conglomerated together in a soft malleable solid piece. I have also taken a few flakes, added some borax, and hit it with some map gas in a crucible. Gold was definitely seen under a microscope after I had created a "button" to the naked eye it looked more silver, but there was noticeable gold in the after product. Plus, I have used sulphuric acid many times and it eats away just about everything other than high grade gold ores. These all seem promising to me?

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

 

[traveller777]

It is actually because Colorado, one of the main and diverse mining states in the country has very limited businesses involved in the gold ore community. Everyone thinks of Colorado because of the finds of gold and telluride in Cripple Creek, but many areas have been neglected because the majority of mining company's went bankrupt back in the day. I have difficulty even discussing the topic of prospecting and mining with anyone in my valley (near Aspen/Leadville) it seems the the only people interested are west in Navada and Utah.

So there is no one in Colorado that can do an assay? And no one you can send samples to for tests?

 

[Jackstraw20]

So there is no one in Colorado that can do an assay? And no one you can send samples to for tests?

I found a small assays in Jamestown, CO that I want to do business with. Yet, his technology doesn't test for the platinum & palladium ores I have found. Plus I'm not sure whether his equipment for the hundreds of pounds of telluride I have.

 

[Jackstraw20]

I just googled gold assays and several places came up you could go to or mail samples. Let us know how assay goes.

I definitely will.

 

[crashbandicoot]

Any riches will be put to bettering this dark world and spreading light, positivitivity, and good vibes. I am basically not in to material things, mostly just helping humanity.

OK