✅ SOLVED Found wat looks to be gold?

[Ashley289]

I am very new to this..found a rock on the train tracks which looked to have gold flakes in it curious I decided to cut the rock open, which cut through it like butter and most of the rock crumbled into dust. So I decided to put some of the dust with flakes in water and the flakes stayed to the bottom. Not sure if anyone can give me an idea if this is truly gold? Thanks in advance

 

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[recondigger]

From the photos it looks like iron pyrite (fools gold) it's hard to tell. Do the gold flakes flatten when you crush them with pliers or a hammer or do they crumble? If they crumble then it's fools gold if they don't I would then test farther

Scouts out!

 

[Ashley289]

This is a picture of it after strained...the particles are very small would not sure if I could get a piece in pliers thank you for the quick reply

 

[deserdog]

Most likely pyrite

 

[cheese]

Looks like pyrite to me. Most all rock will sink in water.

 

[osage express]

Pyrite will glisten in sun.Gold is just gold and not reflective.I do hope it is gold that would be neat.Osage

 

[kuger]

could also be Mica

 

[Ashley289]

I'm thinking its not Gold I took a larger piece and tapped it with a hammer and it crumbled but still very interesting...thanks for all the help.

 

[recondigger]

I'm thinking its not Gold I took a larger piece and tapped it with a hammer and it crumbled but still very interesting...thanks for all the help.

Yeah if it crumbled then its not gold but good eye. If you keep that up you may find some one day.

Scouts out!

 

[Ashley289]

Thanks everyone...this has peeked my interests to always keep looking...will mark thread as solved