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 ?

 

[Red_desert]

Nice to see some color in the pan. great specimen too!

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Nice to see some color in the pan. great specimen too!

“Color in the pan?”!
That pan has some heft.

 

[Red_desert]

Missing the desert, stuck here in the Midwest for now.

 

[OwenT]

Amazing! I haven't seen the gold all balled up like that before like golden BBs. I assume it was really chunky stuff and that's what the crusher did to it?

 

[southfork]

Amazing! I haven't seen the gold all balled up like that before like golden BBs. I assume it was really chunky stuff and that's what the crusher did to it?

The ore went through a jaw crusher first to about 1/4 inch then the chain mill if there's a lot of free gold it balls up.

 

[standard8]

That pan is worth a spot on the Banner.

 

[southfork]

My son and friend went back out on a 103-degree day and worked on their latest pocket. We haven't finished the cleanup but over an ounce so a great day. My photo is bad but there's micro gold all the way up the small ribs in the pan. The tailings from panning are loaded with super fine gold we are saving to blue bowl and wet micro sluice.

 

[Assembler]

My son and friend went back out on a 103-degree day and worked on their latest pocket. We haven't finished the cleanup but over an ounce so a great day. My photo is bad but there's micro gold all the way up the small ribs in the pan. The tailings from panning are loaded with super fine gold we are saving to blue bowl and wet micro sluice.

Sound like your son and friend will not be tossing back to nature the fines with around a ounce of values there. Yes the colors can add up that is for sure.
Great job there.

Some area deposits only have the super fines for the most part.

 

[southfork]

Sound like your son and friend will not be tossing back to nature the fines with around a ounce of values there. Yes the colors can add up that is for sure.
Great job there.

Some area deposits only have the super fines for the most part.

A panful of super fines would make some nice buttons / bars

 

[southfork]

Gold is where you find it. Cleaning buckets and jars. I need to clean the jaw crusher next.

 

[desertgolddigger]

Yup, except for my big sluice, which I've rarely found significant gold from the tailings, I always reprocess everything else. I rarely fail to find worthwhile gold from my cleanup sluice, etc.

 

[southfork]

The new spot is kicking out a little treasure early California gold rush prospect with no trash. My son spent a few hours crawling under the brush and found some ore for crushing. They sound off with the detector but hard to see visible gold on chunks of quartz. But this little half gram bit made the detector scream nice little high grade find. I'm starting to think that wildfire has cooked a lot of this material and popped these specimens' out of the waste piles. Ore roasting on a large scale. What is that track lol

 

[Tesorodeoro]

The new spot is kicking out a little treasure early California gold rush prospect with no trash. My son spent a few hours crawling under the brush and found some ore for crushing. They sound off with the detector but hard to see visible gold on chunks of quartz. But this little half gram bit made the detector scream nice little high grade find. I'm starting to think that wildfire has cooked a lot of this material and popped these specimens' out of the waste piles. Ore roasting on a large scale. What is that track lol

Beauty

 

[Red_desert]

Nice!

 

[BoulderTroll]

That piece of gold is a beauty!

Is that a wolf print? Looks like a bid dog

 

[southfork]

That piece of gold is a beauty!

Is that a wolf print? Looks like a bid dog

Thanks maybe someone has a wolf hybrid or a giant dog. I was walking down our road and seen a big hole through the fence the single track was on a gopher mound.

 

[southfork]

This is the rest of the gold from the other day still panning lots of dust still in the white sands. Real dirty grind like red mud no black sands and full of real small gold. I hope there's tons of this rock at the new spot. I weighed this but can't find my notes around a pound.

 

[desertgolddigger]

This is the rest of the gold from the other day still panning lots of dust still in the white sands. Real dirty grind like red mud no black sands and full of real small gold. I hope there's tons of this rock at the new spot. I weighed this but can't find my notes around a pound.

If this gold you have is as small as mine, then you need millions of the gold particles to make an ounce. I collected this tiny stuff for 2 1/2 years, and managed only 6.6 grams. I haven't even melted it down to rid if of some of the impurities. I'll probably be lucky to get 5 grams. Each speck counts towards your total. But these will only supplement your normal finds. Probably why I went back to placer mining. Just collect this gold dust for a few years, then see what you get.

 

[DizzyDigger]

Thanks maybe someone has a wolf hybrid or a giant dog. I was walking down our road and seen a big hole through the fence the single track was on a gopher mound.

I'd agree. Big canine, and far too large for coyote.

Do you have wolves in your area?

 

[southfork]

If this gold you have is as small as mine, then you need millions of the gold particles to make an ounce. I collected this tiny stuff for 2 1/2 years, and managed only 6.6 grams. I haven't even melted it down to rid if of some of the impurities. I'll probably be lucky to get 5 grams. Each speck counts towards your total. But these will only supplement your normal finds. Probably why I went back to placer mining. Just collect this gold dust for a few years, then see what you get.

We get grams from each rock sometimes an once or more. I try and anyways place something for size comparison and what's still in the sands I use mercury to pick up the small stuff. If the detector sounds off its a pay day rock. I don't try to weigh the fines they just go into the amalgam. When it gets thick its retort time. In my spare time I crush random rocks trying to find where this local gold is coming from without digging the whole mountain.