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 ?

 

[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.

 

[Assembler]

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

390,000 abandoned hardrock mine sites on federal land. That's a lot of mine sites.

 

[JohnWhite]

390,000 abandoned hardrock mine sites on federal land. That's a lot of mine sites.

There are probably more than that

Ed T

 

[Assembler]

There are probably more than that

Ed T

Yep all of the "Claims" that are not supported by "Affidavits" comes to mind here.

 

[southfork]

Hand crushed a few samples off the new spot and melted we have 14 grams of nice gold. This ore is a lot cleaner than we have been crushing. Raining maybe some placer mining Sunday clear sky's and water in the dry diggings.

 

[southfork]

My sons finds from today metal detecting on the new claim great start to the new year. These will cleanup real nice rained out or they would still be out there.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

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

Ahhhhhhhhhhh .... the faces