Recent find

chriseneim · May 6, 2014

Found in Colorado

kevin1 · May 6, 2014

Magnificent! I am sooo green with envy right now! :notworthy:

CApicker · May 6, 2014

Wow! how awesome is that

That's a keeper :thumbsup:

Diggin-N-Dumps · May 6, 2014

Great Piece of Quartz you have there!! :laughing7:

Aufisher · May 6, 2014

Nice quartz! Any visible gold?

ecmjamsit · May 6, 2014

Nice find! Whats the story, found with a metal detector? On the mine dumps? Or was it an eyeball find?

bug · May 6, 2014

Mica on quartz?

Lanny in AB · May 6, 2014

Any feedback on your find?

All the best,

Lanny

chriseneim · May 6, 2014

Lanny in AB said:
Any feedback on your find? All the best, Lanny

hey guys sorry for lagging ha I got this on the trail to magnolia mine it was very strange I found about 3 chunks of quartz each are about 5 lbs the pics are of a few of the broken pieces that are all highly mineralized With pocket formations in all with barite crystals and manganese oxide . They were the on the bottom of a cliff that had absolutely no quartz they quartz in area. It's like they were just sitting there or they were chunks from some vein coming from the ground so please educate me ha. Here is another chunk that was right next to it.

Aufisher · May 6, 2014

When in doubt crush them out!

ecmjamsit · May 6, 2014

If its gold I would NOT crush it. It is worth way more as a specimen. Do they sound off with a metal detector?

chriseneim · May 7, 2014

ecmjamsit said:
If its gold I would NOT crush it. It is worth way more as a specimen. Do they sound off with a metal detector?

pic 9 did and needle test on other and no crumble or or shatters it just left left an indentation found this pic for example. I'm not in to crushing my finds and

Geochemdog · May 7, 2014

Looks kind of like surface staining or an oxide patina. Test what you think is gold with conductivity meter, easiest way to instantly determine if you have a metallic substance. If it reads a very low resistance then you could have gold. If it fails to read at all then its not gold, high resistance and it could be an iron complex.

As far as why it was where you found it, could be some form of "float" from a remote location, could be a local anomaly and just have been a result of mesothermal or epithermal activity eons ago. Large crystals like this suggests cooling happened at a very slow rate allowing ample time for the quartz crystals to form. Could have been a result of previous prospectors ( left behind to lighten the load). Could be the outcropping of an un discovered vein. The possibilities are limitless, well to an extent.

ecmjamsit · May 7, 2014

Is this near the Magnolia mine in Park County? Or the "Magnolia" Mining District near Boulder? I am looking at buying a mine near where you found that specimen if it is in Park County. Lemme know because I have a pair of Whites Goldmasters and would be open to letting you use one to search for more specimens.

IMPDLN · May 8, 2014

I like the vuggy quartz piece, as it has possibilities. These other pieces, not so much. If I understand you correctly the piece in pic #9 sounded off with a metal detector. That might be interesting, but what kind of metal detector and was it tested on the ground with the machine properly ground balanced or was it an air test? Hard to tell anything from a picture of course, but as oxidized as those pieces are would indicate pyrites and sulfides. No reason not to crush any of those rocks if they don't have visible gold showing. No value to a gold quartz specimen with no visible gold. Dennis

Hoser John · May 8, 2014

Just like women,looks can be deceiving-crush some and test-John

chriseneim · May 8, 2014

I'm not claiming any of it to be gold it was found near old mine that produced almost a million ounces of gold back in the day. I'm going to get a falcon detector hopefully this weekend so I'll wait till then to make any conclusions. Thank you all for your comments good or bad all are good info

chriseneim · May 8, 2014

This is another one I picked up. And I have scrubbed this for weeks no sulphide yellow came off while cleaning and is has soaked in vinegar what do u think

IMPDLN · May 9, 2014

I myself don't get excited about sulfides. Good indicator of mineralization, but rarely contains any free milling gold. I would look, but to me it's a leaverite. Dennis

chriseneim · May 9, 2014

IMPDLN said:
I myself don't get excited about sulfides. Good indicator of mineralization, but rarely contains any free milling gold. I would look, but to me it's a leaverite. Dennis

like the old saying goes -
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him”