crush for gold or keep for show

[tddave]

Not sure if I should crush this up for gold or keep it as a desk piece. A lot of different colored quartz crystals and a lot of what I'm assuming is iron powder on the inside. Pics are of the rock split in a third, pretty decent size and weight. Found it under a trees roots along a dry creek bed on a hike...should I return and pan material under tree? there were a lot of plain white quartz nearby..

 

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[stefen]

If you can't make up your own mind, what will you decide to do when others comment?

 

[tddave]

simple...take their advice. I'm assuming they know more then me on the subject

 

[cudamark]

If there's gold in it, I'd crush it and recover the gold. IMO, it's not all that "showy".

 

[tddave]

I know they say gold rides an Iron horse so I didn't clean anything off...pics are not dirt its the middle of the rock, only pic of the outside of the rock is #3 uncleaned.

 

[tamrock]

Crush it to see if there's even any gold in it.

 

[UnderMiner]

Extract the gold,then display the gold along with a picture of the rock you got it from

 

[kcm]

I agree with Cudamark and UnderMiner. Take a pic from every angle under various lighting, detail when/where you found the rock, then crush and pan - see if it's worth trying to get more. Can more easily display the retrieved gold to show off than to lug a big rock around.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

I like the rock for possible gold as it shows a lot of iron content, more than the white quartz you say is nearby gold is in quartz veins but more in reddish stained quartz than milky quartz, although on occasion it is found with white quartz.I grew up in Julian Ca. and all the gold mines I ever explored, the veins were reddish stained quartz.Explore what type of material, gold in your area is normally found in.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

And heck yeah return and pan there, if you get nothing more than a nice hike out of it your mind will be eased as to whether or not there was gold there.