Anyone found Gold in this type of rock?

[EDN]

All,

I found these rocks in the area I have been searching for the LDM. It looks to me like this could be gold bearing. Has anyone found gold in a similar type of rock?

Thanks,

EDN

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

How to Research for Treasure Hunting and Metal Detecting From Lead Generation to Vetting - Grab it through Amazon!

[EDN]

Here is another picture of an outcropping/quartz about 30 yards away. This one seems to run straight up and out of the canyon or perpendicular to the wash at the bottom. This one has some grey looking material in some spots.

The other vein run at an angle up the canyon.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I think your best bet would be to go and break off some samples from both areas and crush them up and then pan them to see if you find any gold in them. The first three pictures look promising for the right type of gold bearing ore to me the area I am from (Julian California) has the same looking ore. I would seperately do each crushing so as not to chase the wrong vein.

 

[EDN]

I think your best bet would be to go and break off some samples from both areas and crush them up and then pan them to see if you find any gold in them. The first three pictures look promising for the right type of gold bearing ore to me the area I am from (Julian California) has the same looking ore. I would seperately do each crushing so as not to chase the wrong vein.

Thanks. I plan to go there later this year when it cools down. I'm hoping to find some nuggets on the side of the canyon wall.

 

[bc5391]

your last picture looks to be bull quartz. You would have to dig down 5 - 10 feet and see if the vein is still there then take samples. As far as the first pictures, not only sample the quartz, but the area next to the quarts on both lises, sometimes there is better gold in the walls.

 

[skyhawk1251]

I see only bull quartz in all of your photos, none of it gold-bearing, but if you're still curious if it could contain any micro-gold there's no need to crush and pan it. Just break off some samples and examine the freshly exposed surfaces with a jeweler's loupe. I doubt if you'll see anything of value. Mohave County has many prominent outcroppings of bull quartz some of which are stained by the high iron content of the mineralized ground, but nothing more than that. The quartz veins in your photos are "puny" in comparison to what is seen here locally. Your time would be better spent by panning creek beds in the Superstitions.

 

[Matthew Roberts]

EDN
This is more what to look for.
The quartz is not the most important part of the picture.
The brownish rock above the quartz is rhyolite while the slightly lighter rock below the quartz is dacite.

It is the sudden change in country rock separated by a quartz vein that is always a promising place to find gold.
And usually the gold will have formed on one side or the other of the separation of country rock.

 

[EDN]

All,

Thank you all for reading and responding to my post. I won't be able to get back to this place where I took these pictures until this winter. However, when I do, I will get some samples and look for they type of rocks you have described.

Thanks,
EDN

 

[gollum]

If you're going to sample the vein, DON'T sample it near the surface. Iron and noble metal weather out of most everything near the surface. Stick a prybar in and break out a chunk several inches deep (or drill in with a hammer drill and granite bit and save the dust).