Hi guys!
My first post here. I've never had any interest in gold finding before and I basically never thought about it. But couple days ago at a dig site (I work in construction) I found an interesting rock that looks like this:
I you look closely, I know It's a bad picture, you can see million little golden shiny specks.
Rock is almost white, some parts are almost transparent. The whole rock is crumbly falls apart very easily, so by the time I brought it home in a bag it crumbled a lot already.
Dig site had primarily round rocks meaning there was, millions years ago, maybe 100s thousands, a lake, river, whatever (I remember from history lessons, I just have no clue about when exactly that was).
A picture of smaller crumbs:
the more I crumble these smaller rocks the more gold specks also fall apart into finer powder. I managed to extract some bigger pieces:
As you can see it looks mostly gold, but has a red-ish tone, which I think could be iron.
I also have a 60-100x microscope, sadly the picture didn't come out that great:
In person it looks gold is attached to some black rock thing? and some parts are a bit reddish.
and some more pictures for fun:
So what do you guys think? Could this be gold?. I'm thinking to take one piece, what is think is a nugget, to a gold shop and get it tested there before I buy any equipment.
Thanks!
My first post here. I've never had any interest in gold finding before and I basically never thought about it. But couple days ago at a dig site (I work in construction) I found an interesting rock that looks like this:
I you look closely, I know It's a bad picture, you can see million little golden shiny specks.
Rock is almost white, some parts are almost transparent. The whole rock is crumbly falls apart very easily, so by the time I brought it home in a bag it crumbled a lot already.
Dig site had primarily round rocks meaning there was, millions years ago, maybe 100s thousands, a lake, river, whatever (I remember from history lessons, I just have no clue about when exactly that was).
A picture of smaller crumbs:
the more I crumble these smaller rocks the more gold specks also fall apart into finer powder. I managed to extract some bigger pieces:
As you can see it looks mostly gold, but has a red-ish tone, which I think could be iron.
I also have a 60-100x microscope, sadly the picture didn't come out that great:
In person it looks gold is attached to some black rock thing? and some parts are a bit reddish.
and some more pictures for fun:
So what do you guys think? Could this be gold?. I'm thinking to take one piece, what is think is a nugget, to a gold shop and get it tested there before I buy any equipment.
Thanks!
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All I posted was crush it and pan it 
