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.

 

[haveagojoe]

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.

I think Yggdrasil is right, for fire-setting it doesn't need to be vinegar, water will do the job just fine. I think vinegar is used to clean calcite from quartz, and it would probably only be useful on calcium-rich rocks such as limestone. In fact it may only be the heating of the rock which makes it go brittle, the quenching may only help to make it cool quicker so you can start working with it sooner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-setting