Need some help

[lost43ver]

The first thing you need to do, if you have found gold, is to secure the mineral rights to the property. Otherwise, you are wasting your efforts. On land that is open to mineral exploration you are only able to take "grab" samples. It appears that you have exceeded that limit already. Grab samples allow you to assay the find and legally declare a mineral has been "located" and make way to a claim. You need to review the process for your states mining laws.

The property is mine, sort of. It belongs to my fiance's father who has already given me permission to do what I'm doing.

 

[lost43ver]

The property is mine, sort of. It belongs to my fiance's father who has already given me permission to do what I'm doing.

And as far as my States laws, I'm not really mining I've not done one hole. As far as I know it's all right to surface hunt private property with permission and that is all I've done.

 

[Thomas M Joseph]

Land owners don't always own the mineral rights, if the land owner also owns the mineral rights you are good to go with no limitations. If you have visible gold, scrape some into a test tube and react with a little aqua regia and test with stannous chloride. If the Purple of Cassious shows positive, then have a professional assay as the stannous chloride test is qualitative not quantitative as a fire assay would be. Best of luck in both gold and love!

 

[lost43ver]

The first thing you need to do, if you have found gold, is to secure the mineral rights to the property. Otherwise, you are wasting your efforts. On land that is open to mineral exploration you are only able to take "grab" samples. It appears that you have exceeded that limit already. Grab samples allow you to assay the find and legally declare a mineral has been "located" and make way to a claim. You need to review the process for your states mining laws.

 

[lost43ver]

Land owners don't always own the mineral rights, if the land owner also owns the mineral rights you are good to go with no limitations. If you have visible gold, scrape some into a test tube and react with a little aqua regia and test with stannous chloride. If the Purple of Cassious shows positive, then have a professional assay as the stannous chloride test is qualitative not quantitative as a fire assay would be. Best of luck in both gold and love!

I would but I do not really know how to make aqua regia yet I mean I know the formula but I'm not comfortable doing it. Which is why I've decided to take it to the Washington State University where they have agreed to test it for me.

 

[Heavy-Black-Sand]

Well I'm not going to be disappointed I literally just got back from taking my dog on a walk and found another rock with VG. I'm going to try to post a picture of it but the camera on my phone is terrible cuz it's a hand-me-down and it's been put through the ringer already I'll do my best.

This is a visual example of hardrock ore that passes for what gets people excited/interested these days ..... there are many hundreds of professionally run hardrock mining exploration companies run by professional geologists and/or mining pro's who are currently struggling to raise money off their exploration/testing results.

 

[4metals]

I literally just got back from taking my dog on a walk and found another rock with VG.

America, what a country, the streets are truly paved with gold!

 

[Martijn]

I would but I do not really know how to make aqua regia yet I mean I know the formula but I'm not comfortable doing it. Which is why I've decided to take it to the Washington State University where they have agreed to test it for me.

I think you need to think about smelting in stead of the chemical route.
You can roast and crush the concentrates to liberate more fine gold from the black sand, but i would first isolate some of the suspected gold without black sand by panning and test if it is actually gold. You dont have to get it all to test if it holds gold or just pyrites and mica.
But you are getting it tested. So you'll know soon.

 

[lost43ver]

America, what a country, the streets are truly paved with gold!

I don't live in a town or city. Also there are about five gold mines located relatively close to where I live. Look I know everyone in life is a skeptic life is made us all that way. But without hope all is lost.

 

[Heavy-Black-Sand]

But without hope all is lost.

 

[Thomas M Joseph]

Depending on where you are located, telluride gold is a possibility in the state. Just so you know, telluride gold is more difficult to test, even with fire assay it is likely to show less than half the gold in the sample.

 

[Heavy-Black-Sand]

Depending on where you are located, telluride gold is a possibility in the state. Just so you know, telluride gold is more difficult to test, even with fire assay it is likely to show less than half the gold in the sample.

The mystery of Gold Tellurides ......




..... opp's, looks like Chris Ralph has dis-abled his videos to play on 3rd party websites ..... and Chris was recently wondering why his youtube revenue has recently declined.

 

[lost43ver]

Depending on where you are located, telluride gold is a possibility in the state. Just so you know, telluride gold is more difficult to test, even with fire assay it is likely to show less than half the gold in the sample.

 

[lost43ver]

Depending on where you are located, telluride gold is a possibility in the state. Just so you know, telluride gold is more difficult to test, even with fire assay it is likely to show less than half the gold in the sample.

 

[Yggdrasil]

Nobody can identify much from the unclear pictures you post now.
Pictures are not a good way of identifisere rocks in the first place.

 

[minero74]

Good morning Guys

A little piece of advice that an old miner gave me long time
gr x tons
measuring is a wasting of time for small miner and prospectors.

why?
because when You send your best found to a lab
is simple that Our best pieces of ore

but in the mine is way different
you can find low and high grade.

You can find in a lode mine
in 1 meter good amount of gold
And We can think
Bingo we hit the Bonanza

but then for 5+ meters of the vein
Nothing at all
then low grade ,then nothing

and We wasting lot of time and money.
Who know maybe few more feet
the vein it will get very rich

but is a game ,that we don’t want to play.


the beauty if mining is that everything is uncertain
Right now We only concentrate our effort
to understand how to and get the gold and silver out

gr x tons
is for the big companies ,they process a lot of tons of ore of all kind
What gets in their big truck goes to the jaws crushers then
everything goes to the balls mills after that
perhaps to flotation and then to those huge
tanks with the leaching products

for us small miners
we go after the gold

crush the ore panned ,if you see gold even at microscopic level
put in a beaker ,add aqua regia
test with stannous,DeNOX and precipitate

the only way we put ore in a tank to be leaching the gold
is when We know we can recovery certain amount of gold and silver worthy of the effort

otherwise is a wasting of time and money

 

[Heavy-Black-Sand]

for us small miners ..... crush the ore ..... see gold even at microscopic level ...... otherwise is a wasting of time and money

I came across this video last night on the "Poor Miner" channel ..... he does a quick demo on small hardrock samples for visible gold ..... he roasts the rocks first in fire for 1.5 hrs, then crushes/pans for the VG ......



opp's .... he's disabled his video's on 3rd party websites.

 

[lost43ver]

Good morning Guys

A little piece of advice that an old miner gave me long time
gr x tons
measuring is a wasting of time for small miner and prospectors.

why?
because when You send your best found to a lab
is simple that Our best pieces of ore

but in the mine is way different
you can find low and high grade.

You can find in a lode mine
in 1 meter good amount of gold
And We can think
Bingo we hit the Bonanza

but then for 5+ meters of the vein
Nothing at all
then low grade ,then nothing

and We wasting lot of time and money.
Who know maybe few more feet
the vein it will get very rich

but is a game ,that we don’t want to play.


the beauty if mining is that everything is uncertain
Right now We only concentrate our effort
to understand how to and get the gold and silver out

gr x tons
is for the big companies ,they process a lot of tons of ore of all kind
What gets in their big truck goes to the jaws crushers then
everything goes to the balls mills after that
perhaps to flotation and then to those huge
tanks with the leaching products

for us small miners
we go after the gold

crush the ore panned ,if you see gold even at microscopic level
put in a beaker ,add aqua regia
test with stannous,DeNOX and precipitate

the only way we put ore in a tank to be leaching the gold
is when We know we can recovery certain amount of gold and silver worthy of the effort

otherwise is a wasting of time and money

Thank you for that. I am still confident after panning I am on the right track. I do not have the required materials for a stannous test, but I am working on rectifying that presently.

 

[lost43ver]

 

[lost43ver]

So just to update everybody on what I have after reading everything and learning how to do it I have broken it all down and came out with a bunch of gold chloride crystals probably 2 oz worth but I don't know how to turn it from the powdery stuff into a metal