Newby with a million questions

[Haroldj]

Hi everyone, I live in the beautiful upper peninsula of Michigan. A friend of mine loves to travel around prospecting for gold, and has had a few success's. Today he and I went to a shut down iron mine that is near me and found some interesting finds in the tailings piles. I am very close to being hooked. We found a lot of color in certain places (I'm sure most of it is iron pyrite). My friend has a rock crusher to make powder from rocks and then runs that through a "Black Magic" fine gold recovery system.
1. Is this the way to get gold from solid rock?
2. I brought a lot of color home, what is the best way to see if there is any gold with the pyrite?
3. There are a lot of reddish crystals along with gold and silver crystals. What is the best guess from the experienced people here what the red is.
I can post a video if it will help.
Glad to be here and hope to learn a lot.
Harold Johnson

 

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[Mackaydon]

Harold, Welcome to Treasure Net !!
Posting a video is always welcomed.
Don.........

 

[GMD52]

Welcome to Tnet, and a million questions are not a problem....just try to ask one at a time, and the experts will soon chime in. Good luck and HH....Gary

 

[vpnavy]

Welcome aboard from the great state of Pennsylvania (USA).

You might consider browsing Sub-Forums: Michigan for information (i.e., clubs, hunts, finds, legends, maps, etc.) directly related to your state.

 

[smalltowngirl13]

Hello and welcome to the forum Harold! Happy hunting to ya both!

 

[River Rat]

 

[Digger2]

 

[copperpenny]

Welcome from SoCal, HH !!!!!!!!!

 

[Metal Detecting Stuff]

Welcome!

Wayne

 

[Urban Grund]

Welcome from Michigan!