I am packaging up some samples at the moment! Do you have any companies you would recommend? I am sending in two sample that have platinum & Palladium, one of which is sulfides bronzitite. so they need to have the equipment to test for that. I'm sending 2 tellurides (one calavarite and one silvanite) to get a feel for their silver & gold contents. Plus 10 -20 grams of all those pieces that could be alluvial gold. I found a tremendous amount more today 100 grams plus because of the mid may snow melt we just had from that storm a few days ago. Once again I wasn't trying to collect today,j ust being observant on a frontage trail next to a river. It was easy to notice areas where the rocks and especially heavy rocks were picking their favorite 'trail' to get down to the river. The pieces looked much shinier and new because they had just traveled down hill by snow melt over the last 2 days.
Other than those pieces, I also have some serious heavy gold ore that I would have loved assailed. I will post a few samples with this post, but I don't want to just break off a piece and send that in. My shipping costs and fees are already going to be quite high, that's why I'm asking advice on what types of ores are going to help me in the long run. I have and ancient gold ingot (I will include a pic) that does test at approximately 19 karate.
I also do own a Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II metal detector an virtually all of my gold ore was popping hot for gold consistently. This was after I had copied down or re-written the entire owners manual so I would be more on the advanced level of things when testing and operating the stone.
Any ideas or suggestions for a top notch, trustworthy, & no B.S surprises assay company, (closer to Colorado, the better) or which types of ores would be best to have assayed so that I can easily find a buyer or someone who has the technology and sees that it is worth processing because of the high graded assay report. These suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I will keep you updated.
John
