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 ?

 

[desertgolddigger]

Cleaning bedrock piling pay we hope! waiting on the rains.

Great little pickers. Just thought, that's more than I usually get in three months.

 

[southfork]

Great little pickers. Just thought, that's more than I usually get in three months.

There's a line of micro gold next to the pickers. A lot of rock to move to get down to bedrock but its close by on our property. I hauled a quad trailer full of rocks up to the house to use around the greenhouse foundation. Another project almost complete. Rocks are to break the force of rain dripping off the roof no gutters.

 

[russau]

NICE greenhouse !! If I had more room for it ,I'd like one just like it only bigger!

 

[southfork]

NICE greenhouse !! If I had more room for it ,I'd like one just like it only bigger!

That's the bones from a carport it ended up 16' x 24'.

 

[southfork]

Seth swinging the beeper on a dry ravine nice shiny Gold. And he was back before sundown

 

[arizau]

Seth swinging the beeper on a dry ravine nice shiny Gold. And he was back before sundown

Dang! There must be placer gold in the drainage too.

 

[southfork]

Dang! There must be placer gold in the drainage too.

That is placer gold.

 

[arizau]

That is placer gold.

I mean't for digging and concentrating.

 

[southfork]

I mean't for digging and concentrating.

Just waiting on the rainy season to work this drainage bone dry most of the year. One of the reasons there's still gold.

 

[southfork]

Just playing with crushed rock it's a long slow process to recover the values. Sledgehammer the big rocks then the jaw crusher next chain mill then micro sluice run the cons in the blue bowl. Then melt the cons or smelt I tried Chapmans flux left a dirty bead in the cupel but with a little scrubbing on a scotch Brite pad to remove the black coating on the bead I have Gold. I need to buy some nitric acid to speed up cleaning. I left out the snuffer bottle to pick up some of the gold and some days I use mercury and save the amalgam to retort. The mercury doesn't pick up all the gold because it's dirty and encapsulated with mineral so the cons need to soak in some drain cleaner or nitric. Then the mercury again to get the micro gold it all adds up in the end.

 

[southfork]

This is my project for today I've been walking buy this outcrop / pile of quartz forever. I hope a speck or two will show out of one of the smaller rocks I crushed and milled now wet sluicing real slow on the micro mat. when I broke it open it looked like veins of red chili powder a good sign.

 

[southfork]

I found Gold! in that fist sized rock I have a buckets worth to crush that might be the only bits I find but my curiosity will be satisfied. Or maybe not lol.

 

[scruggs]

It might be slow going but its gold!

 

[russau]

That will be a good project for this Winter !

 

[Assembler]

This is my project for today I've been walking buy this outcrop / pile of quartz forever. I hope a speck or two will show out of one of the smaller rocks I crushed and milled now wet sluicing real slow on the micro mat. when I broke it open it looked like veins of red chili powder a good sign.

Interesting that your larger rock is angular with little rounding like the rock has not traveled very far. Maybe something to consider when looking for the next one as a winter project.

 

[southfork]

Interesting that your larger rock is angular with little rounding like the rock has not traveled very far. Maybe something to consider when looking for the next one as a winter project.

That seam runs for a longways maybe miles? Some of this bull quartz is rounded where exposed a lot of different forces at work overtime. I just finished crushing a five-gal bucket full, and chain milled I'm starting to wash but it's coffee time.

 

[CreekSide]

You got it all Arrowheads’s and Gold. So how much total weight of gold have you found so far Dennis?

 

[Assembler]

That seam runs for a longways maybe miles? Some of this bull quartz is rounded where exposed a lot of different forces at work overtime. I just finished crushing a five-gal bucket full, and chain milled I'm starting to wash but it's coffee time.

Perhaps the length of the miles long seam is not all the same. For example a lot of bull quartz over most of the seam however in some spots not bull quartz. What happened or what nature did along the way is the difference. The different forces should be showing up within the different rocks / flows.

The angular rock could be from one of the different forces with that particular rock / flow.

 

[southfork]

You got it all Arrowheads’s and Gold. So how much total weight of gold have you found so far Dennis?

Enough to keep me crushing rocks It's a hunt just like arrowheads perfect place to live for outdoor activities and living.

 

[southfork]

First photo is how my ore looks after the jaw crusher next the chain mill at work it makes the ore like flour. The yellow bucket ended up about 3/4 full and I washed half of that yesterday across the ribbed sluice. I blue bowled the cons I have a little color maybe the other half a bucket will be better. I finished the bucket a little fly poop and a small micro line. Poor picture too tomorrow is another day God willing.