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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[Assembler]

Thanks, my build on the barn so at least 30 years I always tossed the big pieces to the side. We used a lot fill low spots under the fences and garden borders now I'm trading rocks. My wife has a lot of these big chucks of quartz around the flower gardens.

At least the rock increased in value over the 30 years or so.

 

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[southfork]

Raining today so I'm roasting rocks and cleaning up some amalgam nice gold sponge Happy Mining

 

[southfork]

I melted all of my clean up into a button it still needs a little cleaning. A lot of time and work to recover micro gold but a nice hobby on a rainy day.

 

[southfork]

A little piece of quartz with gold showing out of a crush soaked in drain cleaner. The specimen has been soaking for a week little change other than cleaner and brighter. I'll try heating the solution when I get a chance I love playing with Gold. Before and after Happy Mining

 

[southfork]

My first post of 2025, after a weeklong soak in vinegar my latest little button has more shine. But lost a little weight.

 

[southfork]

Crushed some roasted float from around our place about a 1/2 bucket sure crushes easier. ran across the ribbed sluice recovered some dirty gold but clean enough to amalgamate last photo at the top a glob of gold. This is just random quartz float I pick up sometimes I get lucky you never know what's hiding inside. Happy Mining

 

[southfork]

Same old stuff I clean, and process concentrates for a few hours. I regrind and pan with mercury to capture the micro gold thats still in the slimes. Tried melting a small crucible of concentrates crucible cracked flowed like lava out of a volcano. Waiting for it all to cool to regrind again. I should have stayed with panning with mercury at least I could see some gold sticking to the mercury.

 

[russau]

Watching that crack would make me cry!

 

[southfork]

Watching that crack would make me cry!

It took 2 1/2 hours to get a nice fluid melt then the crucible failed. But it was a used crucible with a number of melts all material is captured so just a regrind and new melt.

 

[KYgotGOLD]

Keep it up!