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[Mad Machinist]

Any idea what it is? Is it from one of the places we looked at on the satellite images?

Not a freaking clue. This one has me a little baffled.

Nope. This one came from one of my hiddy holes.

 

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[Eu_citzen]

Not a freaking clue. This one has me a little baffled.

Nope. This one came from one of my hiddy holes.

Do Hardness & Streak test & get back to me. Also try get a less blurry picture.
Maybe we can rule out a few possibilities.

 

[Mad Machinist]

Do Hardness & Streak test & get back to me. Also try get a less blurry picture.
Maybe we can rule out a few possibilities.

I doubt a hardness test is going to do any good. This stuff is decomposed to the point I can crush a piece of it by closing my hand. I'll try a streak test but I have my doubts considering how decomposed this stuff is. And I'll see if I can get a close up pic of the stuff.

 

[Mad Machinist]

Just because I usually find interesting stuff.

From an intrusive and massive formation and highly decomposed. It will break off and flake easily if improperly handled.

It's Arsenopyrite.

 

[NerdAlert]

Red clay gold flskes

I found these in the woods alongside a river in G.A. It appears to be red clay with gold flakes in it. I'm not positive so here they are.

 

[mars9]

hi pls help me indentified this find i find it in south africa thank you

 

[Oakview2]

This how they look when we find them in Mariposa county

hopefully shot full of gold like this one. We call them arsenials, and they have been found on the claim the size of softballs.

 

[Golden_Crab]

We have a mining area and we have a lot of this kind of rocks filled of pyrites i think...
It's possibe to recovery gold from them?
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Look for black slate + quartz in your area, this will represent the "heavies" portion of the sedimentary sequence that is now the slate in your pictures. No guarantee of gold, but if there was any in that formation, the best concentrations will be in the black slate.

 

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??help to identify please

 

[Golden_Crab]

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Not sure but looks a bit like a quartz / calcite mix with some spots of potassium, characteristic of an area of low temperature hydrothermal metamorphism adjacent to an area of volcanic activity (IE: plate boundaries)

 

[Cattdadde]

Trying to figure out what type of rock this is my kids bought into the house

 

[Cattdadde]

Trying to figure out what type of rock these kids bought in the house

 

[Sksrpf]

Not sure but looks a bit like a quartz / calcite mix with some spots of potassium, characteristic of an area of low temperature hydrothermal metamorphism adjacent to an area of volcanic activity (IE: plate boundaries)

Thank you for your response
So is this a good thing or bad thing ? Because I have slot more of these rocks and I think there's a lot of gold dust right near where I'm finding theese this might be ignorant of me but I think it's gold because it just looks like it it's not really shiney persay but idk any more insight would be greatly appreciated .

 

[arizau]

Thank you for your response
So is this a good thing or bad thing ? Because I have slot more of these rocks and I think there's a lot of gold dust right near where I'm finding theese this might be ignorant of me but I think it's gold because it just looks like it it's not really shiney persay but idk any more insight would be greatly appreciated .

Take a few small pieces, or a piece, of what you think may be gold and try to crush them/it (put your thumb on a spoon and roll it over the pieces). If they shatter then they are not gold. Learn how to pan and pan what you are seeing....there are many videos that show how to do that. Another thing.....gold pretty much looks the same (like gold) under direct and shaded light whereas almost everything else dulls out in shade.

Good luck.