Found this in a dryed up wash yesterday looks like gold and iron ???

[pippinwhitepaws]

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[Alex Burke]

Yeah they use the same chemicals in some mines, they're trying to make a chlorine solution then switch it to base. Muratic acid and chlorine maybe main ingredients in new technologies instead of cyanide.

 

[chriseneim]

Ok so panned about 1/2 pound of the 50lbs black sand and gravel from the wash I got and this what I got. I know some of it is pyrite but most look good under mag affine glass and most of flakes don't crush or smudge the bend and I hear that's good. But this seems like a lot of gold unless I found a good spot. Also I took photos in shaded area with no lights. Let me know what you guys think.

 

[Dustedyou]

sweet mang.. use some HCL Hydrochloric acid to get the pyrite gone (also known as Muriatic acid) it wont harm the gold itself. sold at home depot 2 gallons are 12$

 

[chriseneim]

Thanks you know what's funny I clean pools for a living I have gallons of muriatic acid and my tester for chlorine is hydrochloric acid. Do I just put some in the water the gold is in or directly on the pan. I really appreciate your help

 

[Dustedyou]

directly on the gold.. no need to dilute it.. itll just eat the junk around it.. without nitric acid added to it it cant eat the "Nobel" metals.. and it wont eat gems (most) its what a jeweler uses to test gold on the marble plate.. different %'s tell him what the quality is.. me i just put it into a beaker to keep safe but most plastics are fine also.metal in pour HCL on the pannings watch for fumes (outside very good) and let it etch off the impurities! if it eats it.. not gold.. if it leaves it.. its still gold colored.. its gold

 

[chriseneim]

Just grabbed a couple quarts from the wash today. These are everywhere. What do you think

 

[Dustedyou]

nice crush and pan, (also when your breaking em up look at whats inside.. itll give you a better idea of what your looking at!) I like #4 and #1 best but break em open and see what lies inside! GL and may you be blessed with GOLD!

 

[lastleg]

Chris, if you are in gold country it has been prospected long ago. Many desert rats have checked out
that wash using metal gold pans. To satisfy your curiosity dig down to bedrock, or as far as you can
until hitting solid rock, shovel up a five gallon bucket, take it home to pan. Pans are cheap, if there is
gold it will stay in the bottom of the pan and the lighter sand will wash out. Once you see real gold
you will always recognize it. Prospecting is hard work and gold is scarce.

 

[chriseneim]

I'm going to try that this weekend. Thanks lastleg I'm just having fun anyways and the feeling of hope that there is hidden treasure out there is the most exciting thing to me. It's the chase that seems the hardest haha. Thanks for Info

 

[chriseneim]

directly on the gold.. no need to dilute it.. itll just eat the junk around it.. without nitric acid added to it it cant eat the "Nobel" metals.. and it wont eat gems (most) its what a jeweler uses to test gold on the marble plate.. different %'s tell him what the quality is.. me i just put it into a beaker to keep safe but most plastics are fine also.metal in pour HCL on the pannings watch for fumes (outside very good) and let it etch off the impurities! if it eats it.. not gold.. if it leaves it.. its still gold colored.. its gold

Here is what was left after leaving it in HCL over night. I got this from a little piece of ore ? It's kinda greenish

 

[chriseneim]

What kind of rock is this? I literally got all that gold from a small piece just like this
After crushing it. Some kind of ore ?

 

[Alex Burke]

It's hard to tell can you post better pic, can you rub a piece of it on your toilet seat and see what color it streaks I think its pyrite but maybe your gonna be rich

 

[chriseneim]

It's hard to tell can you post better pic, can you rub a piece of it on your toilet seat and see what color it streaks I think its pyrite but maybe your gonna be rich

Looks like the real deal. I

 

[Alex Burke]

I can't see that lol rub it on white porcelien<spelling? and see if it streaks green gray or black.

 

[Dustedyou]

Here is what was left after leaving it in HCL over night. I got this from a little piece of ore ? It's kinda greenish

if its left over from the hcl you got gold Pyrite will dissolve immediately.. ie

and the green is one of 100's of copper composites that abound.. i would need better picts to tell you witch one!

 

[chriseneim]

I know it's not the best pic but here is the other rock that the stuff came from. I guess it's diffrent then green rock.

 

[chriseneim]

Ok so I have been trying the crushing theory and I crushed this rock I posted a while and have been soaking it in HCL for the last 2 days and I'm no expert but they look to have gold ?? Any idea. Greatly appreciated. Pics are before crush and after soaking in HCL for 2 days

 

[Dustedyou]

crush even finer! wayyy finer! lol only hit what you pan wit the hcl itll help to remove all the non nobel m,etals but there are other composits that wont digest...

 

[chriseneim]

crush even finer! wayyy finer! lol only hit what you pan wit the hcl itll help to remove all the non nobel m,etals but there are other composits that wont digest...

Awesome thanks for all your help brotha. Ill try it out.