Found some good ore today:)))

[chriseneim]

Yum

 

[wilfndgold]

chris your always postin the best lookin rocks on here. That looks awesome as usual.

 

[chriseneim]

chris your always postin the best lookin rocks on here. That looks awesome as usual.

hahah thanks man I'm all about finding the unusual I was starting to think people were getting annoyed with all my post haha so that's really awesome of you to say made my day.

 

[dave wiseman]

Please post what's good about the ore,and why is it ore?Is it a sample out of an in place vein or float?

 

[chriseneim]

Please post what's good about the ore,and why is it ore?Is it a sample out of an in place vein or float?

Not sure actually. I'm a newbie and learning as I go . If you can educate me on it that would be cool.

 

[DesertNuggets]

Not sure actually. I'm a newbie and learning as I go . If you can educate me on it that would be cool.

Float if you found it. Vein if you broke it off the vein. Mineralized quartz.

In some parts of Arizona gold is found in purple quartz. Remember gold is a metal. Does that yellow stuff look metallic? It doesn't to me but it can be hard to see clearly from a photo. With that said it still could have very fine gold in it. Crush it up.

 

[dave wiseman]

Chris,you might want to do some research...as in reading books and mining reports and online stuff.A good start would be to get the book Handbook for Prospectors by Richard Pearl or older editions by VonBernewitz.been in print about 90 years.available widely on the internet at different prices or borrow it from a big library or university library.another old time book is How to find gold by Ion Idreiss a great Australian prospector and writer.Chris Ralph(Reno Chris) who writes for the mining journal has out a good book and he posts on most of the major gold forums.Your doing the field work so you've got a head start.Everyone starts somewhere,good luck

 

[chriseneim]

Chris,you might want to do some research...as in reading books and mining reports and online stuff.A good start would be to get the book Handbook for Prospectors by Richard Pearl or older editions by VonBernewitz.been in print about 90 years.available widely on the internet at different prices or borrow it from a big library or university library.another old time book is How to find gold by Ion Idreiss a great Australian prospector and writer.Chris Ralph(Reno Chris) who writes for the mining journal has out a good book and he posts on most of the major gold forums.Your doing the field work so you've got a head start.Everyone starts somewhere,good luck

awesome I'm going to do that. Yea I'm noticing your brain likes to jump the gun on every shiny thing you see when you don't know what gold really looks like ha. I really appreciate the Info

 

[dave wiseman]

What you learn from the books and other people you automatically apply in the field after awhile.These are not things one learns in a day,a week or month.one is forever learning this kind of stuff.Obviously the most important thing is to persist and never give up.There's also lot's of free online stuff available through Google books and other sites.In hard rock mining the number one thing is always safety first.when in doubt,DON'T.All your basic tools are inexpensive and the competition is minimal in this kind of prospecting.The object is not to find and make a gold mine,but to find nice quartz gold species and an occasional pocket of gold.....http://www.goldplacer.com/hardrockgold.htm...this is a quickly written paper I wrote for a fellow years ago upon request.It's a little more involved than it seems but it's a good place to start...click the link and look under lode gold prospecting.