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[southfork]

I was burning brush and tossed a chuck of Quartz into the fire to see what changes occur. After it cooled overnight, I broke a piece off to carry in my pocket until I could find my loupe. I found it but I think I need a micron microscope I used macro on my phone. What do you see? I see a little pyrite on the edge but the little round specks in the face look like gold to me I need to crush for a test the hunt is on. The heat of the fire may have released a little gold from the oxidized zones.

 

[unclemac]

let us know... is this from a quartz vein?

 

[russau]

I'm to old to see that small !

 

[southfork]

I tossed the small piece into my jaw crusher and gave the chunks a quick wash one speck and some dust but its gold. I need to run through the chain mill but raining now.

 

[russau]

THANKYOU from the old folks !

 

[southfork]

let us know... is this from a quartz vein?

There are quartz veins all over our property and while grading trenching and brushing we have exposed a lot of small pieces. And from early mining they left us a heap of tailings. That piece was laying on top of the ground behind my barn where I was burning brush.

 

[russau]

Sounds like a good idea to find gold !I'll have to burn some brush to see if I can find stuff like that !

 

[southfork]

The rock specimen weighed 1 - 1/2 pounds total. All went through the jaw crusher and chain mill then panned with a little jet dry. We Have Gold from specks to dust with white sands and a little black sand. The sun was out, and I just had to know just a small bit of color all the way from the edge of the pan to the white sands, but this part of the hill wasn't mined.

 

[GoldReport]

The rock specimen weighed 1 - 1/2 pounds total. All went through the jaw crusher and chain mill then panned with a little jet dry. We Have Gold from specks to dust with white sands and a little black sand. The sun was out, and I just had to know just a small bit of color all the way from the edge of the pan to the white sands, but this part of the hill wasn't mined.

Do you have pics of your jaw and chain mill? My chain mill is tiny homemade one that runs off my cordless angle grinder. Been considering a jaw build

 

[southfork]

Do you have pics of your jaw and chain mill? My chain mill is tiny homemade one that runs off my cordless angle grinder. Been considering a jaw build

Chain mill is an 11 - inch 2 1/2 inch feed the jaw crusher opens to about 3 1/2 inches

 

[southfork]

Working on the tailings of the same sample from above with a loupe I could still observe micro gold. I used mercury to pick up the fine gold in the original sample by panning. The mercury wasn't picking up all the gold the color of the gold was off it had a bronze haze. So as an experiment I poured a little phosphoric acid into the white sands and let it soak overnight. Rinsed with clear water today and panned lightly and nice line of gold appeared added a drop of mercury and the gold started attaching. Apparently, the gold had a little iron coating / staining I'm careful with the mercury and all my samples are retorted. A few photos with my phone you can see the gold floating on the mercury ball and a macro photo of the micro gold. I save all of my tailings for this reason when I get a quart jar full, I treat it with acid my mini leach. Happy Mining

 

[Chilli]

Working on the tailings of the same sample from above with a loupe I could still observe micro gold. I used mercury to pick up the fine gold in the original sample by panning. The mercury wasn't picking up all the gold the color of the gold was off it had a bronze haze. So as an experiment I poured a little phosphoric acid into the white sands and let it soak overnight. Rinsed with clear water today and panned lightly and nice line of gold appeared added a drop of mercury and the gold started attaching. Apparently, the gold had a little iron coating / staining I'm careful with the mercury and all my samples are retorted. A few photos with my phone you can see the gold floating on the mercury ball and a macro photo of the micro gold. I save all of my tailings for this reason when I get a quart jar full, I treat it with acid my mini leach. Happy Mining

Looks good to me!