Interesting

[davidb]

I found this at a construction site they were using it for parking lot fill

 

[DizzyDigger]

Have you crushed it yet and panned the material?

 

[davidb]

Not yet I like the way it looks lol I hope you can see the vein in it my phone doesn't take great pics

 

[davidb]

Here is a cropped pic

 

[Terry Soloman]

Pyrite? I'm not sure what you are seeing.

 

[chlsbrns]

FYI Pyrite almost always contains gold.

 

[johnedoe]

Here is a cropped pic

Well that was better.........

 

[chlsbrns]

FYI gold sometimes run's with pyrite, very rare that pyrite "contains" gold.

if you can find the source could be gold close by...

A simple search will find numerous articles such as this one...

"Pyrite Is Not Born to Fool" - Scientific American Blog Network

 

[Nitric]

A simple search will find numerous articles such as this one...

"Pyrite Is Not Born to Fool" - Scientific American Blog Network

I've read into all that stuff too...Get gold from the old coal furnaces, plants pulling gold out of the ground in fields, for mining...We chased the coal furnace one! Read articles on how years and years of burning coal with small amounts of gold, the bottom of the furnaces have build up! All you have to do is break it out of there and process it!! That simple!? We found some real old self feeding small business furnaces, that were still in the basement of an old building, and found nothing...I'm sure the article had truth to it....But........

Anyhow, I went off topic! And that link reminded me of that stuff in a way....I'm not debating it,I don't know enough to debate it.. just the work and cost would be more than the value to recover it...Type thing...maybe?

Ohh, I forgot what I was getting at...After those, I always assumed Gold colored Pyrite did have some gold in it, For some reason I thought that is what gave it, it's color. But I might be mixed up...That stuff gets all confusing!

 

[davidb]

I thought so to but it doesn't seem to chip away I stuck it with a knife that's what's strange

 

[winners58]

all that glitters is not gold, pretty cool rocks...
maybe siliconized rock?, pyrite? mica? or just the light reflecting off the silicates.

"quote chlsbrns"
FYI Pyrite almost always contains gold.

gold and pyrite are distinctly different and sometimes mix as with arsenopyrite (rare) or gold telluride (very uncommon)
they do run together but even in the same vein you can learn to tell the difference.

 

[chlsbrns]

all that glitters is not gold, pretty cool rocks...
maybe siliconized rock?, pyrite? mica? or just the light reflecting off the silicates.


gold and pyrite are distinctly different and sometimes mix as with arsenopyrite (rare) or gold telluride (very uncommon)
they do run together but even in the same vein you can learn to tell the difference.

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[johnedoe]

Found this one too....
Pyrite is More Gold Than Fool's Gold - Gold Rush Expeditions, Inc.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Found this one too....
Pyrite is More Gold Than Fool's Gold - Gold Rush Expeditions, Inc.

Those are not miners. GRE is the biggest claims monger in the U.S. they have no interest in mining they just want to sell suckers claims.

HERE and HERE is real information from real experienced mining engineers.

Heavy Pans

 

[winners58]

if you find an ore body of pyrite by all means have it checked out.

 

[Nitric]

Those are not miners. GRE is the biggest claims monger in the U.S. they have no interest in mining they just want to sell suckers claims.

HERE and HERE is real information from real experienced mining engineers.

Heavy Pans

Not referring to above links...Just same kind of topic........
When I first started getting interested in Gold, All that stuff gave me false hopes...Like maybe one of these people(in articles) "knew" something that everyone else didn't!! I can pull it from coal, I can make a giant science experiment to extract it from ocean or toilet water etc....There is probably some truth to some of it...But it just leads newbies like me into or on a false trail....Basically! Still fun!!

I tried to find the article again today, about some field of plant that was pulling gold atoms or something from the ground and someone spent millions and millions to extract a tiny tiny amount out of these plants...So yes it was proven but so far impractical, at least for now.....I don't even remember all the details to that one anymore...I can't even find the article again right now...

added.... just found it....
http://www.livescience.com/28676-plants-grow-gold.html

 

[ClaimStake]

gold is chemically inert. it doesn't bond with sulfur copper or iron.

however it can be found diffused throughout pyrites as nano fine or mono atomic gold.

it often times will form inclusions or even encasings in and around pyrite crystals.

in geology things of similar densities tend to travel to the same places.

 

[johnedoe]

Those are not miners. GRE is the biggest claims monger in the U.S. they have no interest in mining they just want to sell suckers claims.

HERE and HERE is real information from real experienced mining engineers.

Heavy Pans

I have to admit I did get a certain feeling about them as I looked further into their site......

 

[Aufisher]

Grind, classify with burlap, pan and enjoy!