From Dreams to Co-Creation, Hiya all!

[Shawnett F (Netty)]

Thank you for this site. I am very happy to learn from those who have come before me.
I am here to learn how to refine gold.
I have a couple of different situations, but I am learning on a smaller piece of druzy quartz.
I would like to get a fair idea what I may be looking at! I look forward to many an enlightening conversation!

One.
Shawnett

 

[Yggdrasil]

Thank you for this site. I am very happy to learn from those who have come before me.
I am here to learn how to refine gold.
I have a couple of different situations, but I am learning on a smaller piece of druzy quartz.
I would like to get a fair idea what I may be looking at! I look forward to many an enlightening conversation!

One.
Shawnett

Welcome to us.

What you have is a rock.
That is the only thing I can say.
If you have only one, crush it to a fine powder and pan it.
If you have a lot, have an assay.

 

[minero74]

I love those kind of porous rocks
and mostly if it is oxidized quartz .

that can be a very good indicator for gold
some time pyrite oxidized and left those porous in the rock .
with a very high resolution loupe or microscope
maybe You can see microscopic gold in or around those holes in the rock

i notice it is rounded,maybe You found a in or around a river or drywash.

that rock came from a quartz vein somewhere
maybe miles away a from a mountain or maybe not that far away .

if you can find the source ,it maybe can be a very rich vein.

the key is to crush some of your rock to a very fine powder and panned to see if it have any gold in it.
lock it in some of those little oxidized stringers.

Edited.

 

[haveagojoe]

I have no experience with ores but I saw on youtube that you can make it easier to crush rocks by heating them in a fire and then quenching in vinegar. See Vo-Gus Prospecting channel.

 

[Yggdrasil]

I have no experience with ores but I saw on youtube that you can make it easier to crush rocks by heating them in a fire and then quenching in vinegar. See Vo-Gus Prospecting channel.

If you heat the rocks and quench them in water it will also be more brittle.
And that without the smell.

 

[Shawnett F (Netty)]

I love those kind of porous rocks
and mostly if it is oxidized quartz .

that can be a very good indicator for gold
some time pyrite oxidized and left those porous in the rock .
with a very high resolution loupe or microscope
maybe You can see microscopic gold in or around those holes in the rock

i notice it is rounded,maybe You found a in or around a river or drywash.

that rock came from a quartz vein somewhere
maybe miles away a from a mountain or maybe not that far away .

if you can find the source ,it maybe can be a very rich vein.

the key is to crush some of your rock to a very fine powder and panned to see if it have any gold in it.
lock it in some of those little oxidized stringers.

Edited.

Hi there!

You guessed it! I am going to do exactly what you suggest. I do not understand what the last sentence means?
And, yes, i found it at the creek. Something about it caught my eye. And as I have been cataloguing my collection, this one caught my attention due to it's density being so much heavier than the other quartz.
I think it is worth my attention.
Plus- this is so much fun!!!

 

[Shawnett F (Netty)]

Welcome to us.

What you have is a rock.
That is the only thing I can say.
If you have only one, crush it to a fine powder and pan it.
If you have a lot, have an assay.

Thank you for this.
I am in the very beginning of an education, no doubt about that!
So much fun!

 

[Shawnett F (Netty)]

I have no experience with ores but I saw on youtube that you can make it easier to crush rocks by heating them in a fire and then quenching in vinegar. See Vo-Gus Prospecting channel.

So I have heard a great deal about white vinegar for the quartz, but the information is inconsistent as to application. I will look at the channel you mentioned, thank you.