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Gold ore in quartz?:shrug:

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Fabio

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Every once in a while, I go out digging into a sedimentary cliff and collect the various quartz chunks I find. Well, one of these is a yellowish color, about one centimeter thick and it makes the pinpointer make noise on my ACE 250. Could there be some gold ore in it? Do you think I should crush the mineral to dust and pan it, or save it for a specialist's point of view? The quartz is very hard and heavy compared to the other specimens. It's veins are in the 1 cm vertical angle, not longways. There is alot of sparkle in it. I cannot chip it with pliers. Any ideas? I'll take a photo of it this weekend.
 
probably you need to do an assay... even it is pirite (FeS) often is a gols bearing ore... but who knows without proper investigation ?
 
For many,many years my late mother was a "rock hound" and from what I remember Gold can be found in Quartz and the Quartz can be dissolved in some type of acid leaving only the Gold ore . Woodstock
 
Fabio said:
Every once in a while, I go out digging into a sedimentary cliff and collect the various quartz chunks I find. Well, one of these is a yellowish color, about one centimeter thick and it makes the pinpointer make noise on my ACE 250. Could there be some gold ore in it? Do you think I should crush the mineral to dust and pan it, or save it for a specialist's point of view? The quartz is very hard and heavy compared to the other specimens. It's veins are in the 1 cm vertical angle, not longways. There is alot of sparkle in it. I cannot chip it with pliers. Any ideas? I'll take a photo of it this weekend.
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Take your sample and crush it all up real good, and then pan it out for the gold, if some shows up go get some more!
 
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