Is this flour gold perhaps?

[Nuggetbrain]

Hey all. I get what a nugget is, I guess a picker is smaller then a nugget but you would be able to pick it up with your fingers.
A flake is.... well a flake. Need a tweezers I suppose.

But flour gold? Tiny, tiny, tiny like flour you cook with, yes? I panned some dirt I dug up from a dry creek and along with
the black sand are some very sparkly, shiny, mini fragments. I have enclosed a pic but not sure if you can tell anything
from it. Is that what flour gold is? Many thanks.

Tim

 

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[bobw53]

No answer on your picture, my monitor sucks and a cat peed on it last year.

Get some type of a magnifier.. I've got some of these little 60x currency microscopes, just search ebay.. About $3 out of China
if you want to wait, $7 or $8 and you'll have it in a few days.. Get a few, they aren't exactly the highest quality, and your friends
will all want one...

I know there are better tools, but those are cheap and I don't get mad when I toss one in the wash.. Because we all carry around
little microscopes to check out every rock we find in a parking lot.. Don't we

Once you know what gold looks like, the microscope just makes it prettier, and will allow you to see stuff that you CAN NOT see
with the naked eye.. If there is a question with your naked eye, magnification takes all the questions out... The little stuff under
magnification looks like the pretty big nuggets that you see pics of.

I'm getting 4-6 pieces of TINY pieces of gold out of almost every teaspoon in my driveway.. I didn't know that was even there until I started
magnifying. On the other hand the place I've found the most gold doesn't have any of that itty bitty microscopic stuff.

 

[yodi]

Look at it in the light then in the shade gold looks the same in both lights. Gold doesn't shine or glimmer in the light.

 

[Skiddum]

it looks like really small black sand and gold. as bobw said get yourself a loupe 40 or 60 usually work. I like the ones with a light in them makes it allot easier to see. look at it through them it's yhe only way to tell for sure. if you want to get it out you'll need screens 50 and 100 mesh then just work it around. Rule 1 when finishing, make sure the gold is the heaviest thing in your pan. if you still can't get it then you may want to get 150 200 even maybe a 300 mesh screen. I've got allot of really ultra fine gold where I'm at so there needed. but the best thing I've found is just save up all your black sands and then at the end of the year in the winter you can sit and rerun all that through the screens and sit and do your finishing. buy then you'll be surprised at how much gold youve got

 

[ohiochris]

Yeah its a little hard to tell from the picture , Im not sure I see anything. As long as you are panning correctly your flour gold should show up right at the edge where the bottom of the pan meets the side. If there are more than a few pieces it will make a line right there.....though it does sometimes show up a little higher into the black sand you should be able to easily wash the black sand away from where it is sitting. If you are gently washing the black sand back away to reveal any gold there the gold will usually stay put and not move much if any at all as the black sand moves away from it. This tells you that the gold is the heaviest particle in there , for its size its still heavier than the black sand of similar size. If the suspected gold moves around a lot and dont want to stay put then it usually isnt gold. Shade the suspected gold with your hand to block direct sunlight and if its gold it will still look bright , but if it were something else it will dull in the shade. Things like mica or pyrite ( fools gold ) have to reflect direct sunlight in order to have the bright gold color but gold will still have that bright gold look even in the shade. After you have successfully found flour gold a few times you get to where you can spot it right away.

 

[GoldpannerDave]

Hey all. I get what a nugget is, I guess a picker is smaller then a nugget but you would be able to pick it up with your fingers.
A flake is.... well a flake. Need a tweezers I suppose.

But flour gold? Tiny, tiny, tiny like flour you cook with, yes? I panned some dirt I dug up from a dry creek and along with
the black sand are some very sparkly, shiny, mini fragments. I have enclosed a pic but not sure if you can tell anything
from it. Is that what flour gold is? Many thanks.

Tim

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It does look like it but in a photo like that it can be hard to tell. Why not use the backwash and tap method to concentrate the gold (at least I hope it is) and get a crescent at the top of your pan. The backwash and tap starts at 2:12 below:

 

[Nuggetbrain]

Ahhhhh good idea! I have a lot more of that original dirt where I got the black sand and the ...maybe.... flour gold...... I will give this a try! Thanks.

Tim

 

[kayakpat]

If that is gold, wow it is about useless as it hurts my eyes it is so small

 

[GoldpannerDave]

If that is gold, wow it is about useless as it hurts my eyes it is so small

Yeah, but it all adds up!

 

[enamel7]

Big gold is pretty but rare. The small stuff pays the bills!

 

[huntsman53]

Big gold is pretty but rare. The small stuff pays the bills!

Yep but there is nothing like a big Gold nugget to make you do the "Happy Dance", LOL!


Frank

 

[johnedoe]

This is flour gold.... Sorry about the crappy pics, took them with my cell and a 10x loupe.
This is -100 mesh by the way.....