Found this gold dust in 3 minutes

[reptwar1]

I live by the Arkansas river and dug out a crack in sidewalk, that is submerged when river floods. Literally took 3 minutes to collect this gold dust. It stuck to my dust pan, and I am wondering about ways to collect it. There are literally hundreds of more cracks for me to dig out. Thanks in advance

 

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[winners58]

hey you're back, So how did that work out for you, with "chisbrns" advice in the thread "sheet in a stream to catch gold"

 

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[reptwar1]

Somebody mentioned that there is "very little gold in Arkansas".... The gold in the pan in my profile pic came from two 5 gallon buckets. I won't beg you to believe me though lol

 

[mytimetoshine]

This is ridiculous. do everyone a favor and go buy a test kit for 20 bucks. test your dust and then come back and apologize for ignoring all the advice given.

 

[reptwar1]

This is ridiculous. do everyone a favor and go buy a test kit for 20 bucks. test your dust and then come back and apologize for ignoring all the advice given.

I'm getting it tested after I get off work sir

 

[reptwar1]

And I owe nobody an apology, as I have been polite and have no problem taking advice. Why every time I'm on here, there's someone like you? Lol

 

[chlsbrns]

Yes we still use burlap sheets and fish oil to capture many ounces of gold suspended in water.

Do a stannous chloride test to see if there is gold. The link shows how and also shows how to make poor mans aqua regia from materials available at most hardware stores.

http://www.goldrecovery.us/goldrecovery/documents/reactions.pdf

Look at #2 & #10

 

[kcm]

Yes we still use burlap sheets and fish oil to capture many ounces of gold suspended in water.

Do a stannous chloride test to see if there is gold. The link shows how and also shows how to make poor mans aqua regia from materials available at most hardware stores.

http://www.goldrecovery.us/goldrecovery/documents/reactions.pdf

Look at #2 & #10

FISH OIL!! Thanks chlsbrn - had been trying to remember that but couldn't.

 

[mytimetoshine]

And I owe nobody an apology, as I have been polite and have no problem taking advice. Why every time I'm on here, there's someone like you? Lol

and by "you" I assume you mean. someone who actually knows what gold looks like?

good luck with your dustpan

 

[kcm]

This is ridiculous. do everyone a favor and go buy a test kit for 20 bucks. test your dust and then come back and apologize for ignoring all the advice given.

Nobody here needs to do any apologizing. We're all on here to 1) help others and 2) learn. We're all teachers and we're all students. Reptwar has been polite. No need to start taking an attitude against him. He said he'd test it after work ... so we wait. If there is gold, great. If not, too bad. Either way, we all just carry on with life.

 

[reptwar1]

Thank you kcm and everyone else that's been helpful. Took my dust to a local pawn/jeweler and he said it tested out at somewhere around 22k. Wonder what else could be in the gold. I have noticed that when I pan in this area, I see LOTS of silvery specs left at the top of my gold pan with the gold. Platinum maybe?

 

[reptwar1]

and by "you" I assume you mean. someone who actually knows what gold looks like?

good luck with your dustpan

Smh

 

[reptwar1]

Chlsbrns good to see ya! Hope all has been good your way

 

[kcm]

Reptwar, glad the test came back positive for ya. Now all you gotta do is get some fish oil and put some samplers in the river - find out where (and WHEN) the gold is traveling best.

Only thing I ask is, no more abbreviations please. I don't nor have I ever texted. Your posts of 3 or so letters make no sense to someone like myself - a self-proclaimed, technical idiot!

HH (<-- THIS one I know!)

 

[arizau]

Thank you kcm and everyone else that's been helpful. Took my dust to a local pawn/jeweler and he said it tested out at somewhere around 22k. Wonder what else could be in the gold. I have noticed that when I pan in this area, I see LOTS of silvery specs left at the top of my gold pan with the gold. Platinum maybe?

You probably already know this but...Virtually all natural gold found or mined is not pure and copper and silver make up most of what is usually naturally alloyed with it. There are several other "contaminant" elements that are often associated with it but they usually only add up to a tiny fraction of the total weight. No clue about what the silvery specks are unless some gold particles have been coated/amalgamated with mercury or if there is enough silver or maybe nickel content to influence the coloration.

Good luck and hope you find a way to clean those cracks out.

 

[reptwar1]

10-4 I mean OK I'm going to try to get ahold of some fish oil this weekend. And I do agree with you as far as finding exactly where the gold is traveling (surface or bottom)

 

[mytimetoshine]

Thank you kcm and everyone else that's been helpful. Took my dust to a local pawn/jeweler and he said it tested out at somewhere around 22k. Wonder what else could be in the gold. I have noticed that when I pan in this area, I see LOTS of silvery specs left at the top of my gold pan with the gold. Platinum maybe?

any pics of this test?....

 

[reptwar1]

any pics of this test?....

I didn't bother. I'm not a skeptic.

 

[Jeff95531]

Hmmm. Another social experiment. Must be time for finals.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I wouldn't want to get caught cleaning out rotten cracks of a sidewalk that I didn't own. Take a lot of gold to pay for repairs.

It's kind of cool, but it will take magnitudes more gold to get something that will add up to something that you could weigh.
Think gold leaf...

I do wonder how so many pieces of micron gold came to be trapped in that one crack? Seems unlikely.

 

[gold tramp]

wow