Thoughts on this???

[Briancline]

Found near the mouth of a cave with running water flowing through it in a mineralized zone

 

[Briancline]

Here’s pics

 

[FrugalRefiner]

I think you posted the invisible pics. I don't see them.

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Dave

 

[Briancline]

I think you posted the invisible pics. I don't see them.

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[Briancline]

 

[Briancline]

 

[Briancline]

I think you posted the invisible pics. I don't see them.

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Dave

Thanks for letting me know but I think I’ve got some pics and videos up now.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

Yep, I see them now.

Dave

 

[Briancline]

Yep, I see them now.

Dave

I don’t know much about it. Does it look like something you’ve seen before or something you think I should look into refining?

 

[FrugalRefiner]

I'm afraid I don't know much about ores. Perhaps someone else will have an opinion, but it's really difficult to tell anything from pictures.

Dave

 

[goldshark]

If inquiring about analysis for Au/Ag only, a $50 fire assay will do. A 22 element ICP will run in the $150 - $160- per sample analysis. This forum does not do assay by picture work, despite the most capable minds available here.

 

[Briancline]

I know you can’t tell much from a pic. I just wanted to share that and see what anybody had to say about it.

 

[4metals]

Crush up a sample as fine as possible and subject it to acid tests. Dissolve a small amount (a few grams) in aqua regia (outdoors upwind) and test with a stannous chloride solution. It is a test that will serve you well once mastered. I believe Hoke, in her book devotes some time to testing. A good read and, here at the forum, you can't beat the price.

 

[rickbb]

There is a sticky at the top of the prospecting section of this forum that describes in detail how to field test small samples of rocks/ores for all kinds of metals and minerals.

As 4metals stated a small test tube of finely crushed ore, dissolved in AR and tested with stannous will quickly tell you if there is any gold there.

Edit, mostly what I see is iron stained quartz in the pics.

 

[SRM]

Just spit-balling here......Indiana makes me think limestone and calcite. Yellow staining from decomposition of pyrite or other sulfides, dark black adamantine luster looks like high iron sphalerite.

I may be completely off-base (again). Can you scratch the grey rock with steel? If so, put a few drops of muratic on the scratch and look for bubbles.

 

[jobinyt]

What is the zip tie for?

 

[BlackLabel]

What is the zip tie for?

It's stabilizing the the rock.

 

[Briancline]

What is the zip tie for?

It broke was trying to keep it together

 

[nickton]

It seems to definitely be the kind of quartz you would see bearing gold but from a distance it looks too crystallized to be gold. Just a wild observation. Don't know but it sure looks purty.

 

[ssmontecarlo]

Crush up a sample as fine as possible and subject it to acid tests. Dissolve a small amount (a few grams) in aqua regia (outdoors upwind) and test with a stannous chloride solution. It is a test that will serve you well once mastered. I believe Hoke, in her book devotes some time to testing. A good read and, here at the forum, you can't beat the price.

I agree. I take a sample drop it in acid. Good find. I hope you found gold.