OldSowBreath
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At an estate sale. Everything overpriced, as usual. In the garage, two ladies are cherry-picking a box of nice rocks, most of which were wrapped in paper, but they've pretty well cleaned it out of the nice stuff (lots of large quartz crystals). Rats. So I venture into the bowels of the garage, and on a shelf is another small box of rocks. Doesn't appear that anyone has searched it. Now here in my town, we see a lot of rocks at estate sales, since we have so many oilmen and geologists, so I'm always looking for interesting rocks. In the box I'm looking at, I pick up a few small pieces of iron pyrite and some other things. Then I come across the rock below. 2.5 normal (not troy) ounces of specimen gold and quartz; 72 grams. As I came out of the garage into the sunlight with the box, a gentleman peers into the box and goes, "That's gold!" "No", I say, "its just pyrite." "I'm pretty sure that's gold", he says. "Well, let's just pretend its pyrite until I check out." Anyway, $5.00 for the small box of rocks, and a "whatsit" now on that forum.
There's a specific gravity test for how much gold is in a quartz rock, several on Youtube, so I'm going to see if I can find out how much. The thing literally has gold all over it, and some pretty red gold too, which I guess is due to the presence of copper, which you can also see in the rock.
I'm new to posting pictures, so if these need to be resized, I'd be grateful for the help. Thanks for looking!
There's a specific gravity test for how much gold is in a quartz rock, several on Youtube, so I'm going to see if I can find out how much. The thing literally has gold all over it, and some pretty red gold too, which I guess is due to the presence of copper, which you can also see in the rock.
I'm new to posting pictures, so if these need to be resized, I'd be grateful for the help. Thanks for looking!
