Gold settles to the bottom when panning,, right? It just seemed so pretty!

Dave44 · Jan 23, 2015

This was caught in a screen filter from a well. I told my buddy I thought it was too light to be gold, but I want your opinions. Thanks all!

Dave44 · Jan 23, 2015

Sorry, I meant to put this under panning. Not sure how to make that happen.

Bill_saf · Jan 23, 2015

It's one of three things

1: fine gold

2: pyrite

3: Mica

test it to see if its pyrite by crushing some if it turns to power then its pyrite. If it floats like glitter and hard to keep it on the bottom it's mica. mica is a pita.

Goldwasher · Jan 23, 2015

Hey, Dave its hard to tell from the picture but, I will say that I live in gold country and 100% for sure know several people that have ended up with gold in their toilet tanks that were on well water.!

russau · Jan 23, 2015

yep its hard to tell from this pic! try screening some of this material off and roll it around in your pan to see if it trails the other material in your pan! or get a clean glob of it and on the back of a ceramic tile rub this material into it to see if it has a gold streak or a black streak to it. a black streak is pyrite/mica.... I had a friend come back from Pikes Peek Colorado with some "gold" he found on the side of a road.....he got all excited about it and called me... I kinda laughed about it and told him id bring my pan and show/prove to him that it wasn't. he was let down!

Dave44 · Jan 24, 2015

Thanks for the replies. When I put it in a pan and swirled it around with water it kinda separated out to staying on top of the sand, bummer. It doesn't float, however.

I will tell him to try it on a a ceramic tile, as a last effort. Lol

worldtalker · Jan 24, 2015

It's in the booze. :laughing7:

GOD Bless

Chris

russau · Jan 24, 2015

I should have said , try it on the backside (unglazed)of that ceramic tile!

2cmorau · Jan 27, 2015

gold is heavy, even small flakes so if your shaken the pan and that shiny stuff stays on top of the black meterial, i would say bummer http://www.yellowpages.com/chesterfield-va/gold-mining-supplies

ConceptualizedNetherlandr · Jan 30, 2015

Appologies to red green

Goldwasher said:
Hey, Dave its hard to tell from the picture but, I will say that I live in gold country and 100% for sure know several people that have ended up with gold in their toilet tanks that were on well water.!

I get mine from back flushing the water softener - that way I don't have to suck it from the bottom of the septic anymore.

Prime business opportunity. Gold and Silver septic sucking service, keep your stick on the ice!

ConceptualizedNetherlandr · Apr 26, 2015

worldtalker said:
It's in the booze.

GOD Bless

Chris

I recently had occasion to check out some of this goldschlauger at the store. The flakes were actually suspended before I touched the bottles on the shelf. Shaking them didn't help settle the flakes. Must be all the sugar that helps keep them from settling.

Anybody ever pan out a quart of this and weigh it?

KevinInColorado · Apr 27, 2015

It is so thin and light that a decent sample won't even register on a typical scale. Best way to recover it is to dry it out and melt it with your regular wild gold on top of it. Mercury works great too of course but not really needed.