Gold Ore

[southfork]

A little sample that was found with a metal detector. Crushed by hand then panned to wash away some of the dirt and clay? The photo is macro so real small particles, but the quartz shows and what looks like iron and free gold. I think we need a small smelter to retrieve the values trying to speed up the recovery what's your thoughts ?

 

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[Tesorodeoro]

My latest bucket was disappointing there was gold but so fine it would take 5 buckets to get a pinch. But most of this came from around the woodshed ankle breakers that wash up after each rain. I'm just sampling from around the house until my son brings up some mine waste. Big storm on the way we might be able to do some placer mining if the seasonal creek starts flowing. We have a huge pile of pay waiting

Well they all can’t be globs of gold

 

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[southfork]

We melted all the fines collected out of various ore samples and melted not smelted. It took two melts to clean up but turned out nice. 27.5 grams. Back to crushing rocks to decide which pile of waste rock we should be hauling home. When my son took it to town it weighed 28 grams my scale was too cold lol.

 

[southfork]

Bright sunny day in the 50s and no wind so I was hand crushing with mortar and pestle and panning. And scrubbing softly some little specimen pieces that had soaking in Whink. The silver gray picker might be silver? Last photo was 8 grams good day in the sun.

 

[desertgolddigger]

Bright sunny day in the 50s and no wind so I was hand crushing with mortar and pestle and panning. And scrubbing softly some little specimen pieces that had soaking in Whink. The silver gray picker might be silver? Last photo was 8 grams good day in the sun.

Wow! What a haul. Can you send some luck my way. Maybe it'll help me find one of those nice rocks like you seem to find so many of.

 

[southfork]

Wow! What a haul. Can you send some luck my way. Maybe it'll help me find one of those nice rocks like you seem to find so many of.

Those were metal detector finds by Seth, my bucket of rocks was just specks and gold dust out of the chain mill today

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Blue Skys..

Bright sunny day in the 50s and no wind so I was hand crushing with mortar and pestle and panning. And scrubbing softly some little specimen pieces that had soaking in Whink. The silver gray picker might be silver? Last photo was 8 grams good day in the sun.

Blue Skies, Blue Skies Smiling At Me, Nothing But Blue Skies ..Do I See..

 

[southfork]

My son and his friends went out to check a new spot. Cold wet and foggy but nothing stops them my son brought me a sack of rocks. This one has gold for sure squeezing out of the edge nice purity

 

[southfork]

The new samples are too wet for the chain mill won't pass through the screen. We hand crushed a few samples from a big pile that looks crushed or blasted and mucked and dumped. It has micro gold and pickers mixed in the pile maybe a couple of pickup loads. It will have to wait until after the new series of storms pass more than I can crush in a month. I can back right up to this pile and hand shovel into the truck. Maybe enough to last all winter I took a few closeups of some small pieces hard to get clear photos. I need a digital microscope. The material in the tub is what the pile looks like. You will have to take my word for it the stuff I panned was a blur. Just micro gold dust but it's a big pile

 

[Assembler]

The new samples are too wet for the chain mill won't pass through the screen. We hand crushed a few samples from a big pile that looks crushed or blasted and mucked and dumped. It has micro gold and pickers mixed in the pile maybe a couple of pickup loads. It will have to wait until after the new series of storms pass more than I can crush in a month. I can back right up to this pile and hand shovel into the truck. Maybe enough to last all winter I took a few closeups of some small pieces hard to get clear photos. I need a digital microscope. The material in the tube is what the pile looks like. You will have to take my word for it the stuff I panned was a blur. Just micro gold dust but it's a big pile

This is more then many will process this winter or even a season.
Will keep things going is the plus side,

 

[southfork]

Cold windy and wet so I'm prospecting in the kitchen sink with warm water. I struck gold I washed a couple of quartz rocks with soap and warm water in a bowl. These will be crushed because there are little specs of micro gold along all the cracks and fissures on these ore samples. From the same place as the little nugget, I posted

 

[southfork]

My wife and me went out to the new diggings to have a look. Trench's open shafts and piles of quartz and the quartz piles disappear into the brush the open cuts are massive with almost endless area to metal detect. Here's a little piece of quartz with gold found by my son today right in front of a big pile of quartz.

 

[JohnWhite]

Here is an old article I came across today…https://rollcall.com/2022/04/12/mining-lobby-doubles-spending-as-congress-focuses-on-1872-law/

It is further proof of trust no one…

Ed T

 

[southfork]

Here is an old article I came across today…https://rollcall.com/2022/04/12/mining-lobby-doubles-spending-as-congress-focuses-on-1872-law/

It is further proof of trust no one…

Ed T

Not sure what this has to do with hobby miners but were doing our best to cleanup old dirty gold.

 

[Assembler]

Not sure what this has to do with hobby miners but were doing our best to cleanup old dirty gold.

Like most paper work / document generation it can be hard at first how it will effect you with out some researching.

By the way hobby miners is not defined. Kind of like prospector is not defined unless you are into "Grubstake" big time. Just pointing out in a nice way.

 

[JohnWhite]

Not sure what this has to do with hobby miners but were doing our best to cleanup old dirty gold.

I learned long ago that those who know, will lie and cheat new hobby miners into telling them where they found x sample…. and then they will move in and work said area while the poor fool who found the deposit doesn’t make squat….prime example Henry Comstock….

Not sure what this has to do with hobby miners but were doing our best to cleanup old dirty gold.

I’m just saying…Those who know will shaft those who don’t know….Old Pancake is a prime example of those in the know shafting those who know not…I have learned quite a bit since I took my first ore in for an assay….Oh well….Life will go on…lol

 

[Assembler]

I have yet to find within the Code any thing about "Hobby mining". Just saying.

 

[southfork]

A little soap and water on the same sample and different lighting.

 

[JohnWhite]

I have yet to find within the Code any thing about "Hobby mining". Just saying.

Maybe I should have used the term greenhorn instead of hobby miner…

Ed T

 

[RTR]

A little soap and water on the same sample and different lighting.

Your 3rd Pix. looks interesting /promising

 

[Assembler]

Maybe I should have used the term greenhorn instead of hobby miner…

Ed T

Mineral deposit and claim comes to mind.