Last thing left in the pan: any idea what it is?

[BrettCo124]

I'm new to this. Just working out some newbie questions if you don't mind. I was on my local creek in Pennsylvania that I don't believe has gold in it, but I had to try. What is this? It was the last thing left in the pan, but its not gold. At least I don't think it is. And it almost had a slight rust look on one part of it. Wasn't sure if this may be a common thing to find.

Also, I wasn't sure where to post this question. I didn't see a better option on the app, so I used this forum to post.

Thanks,

BrettCo

 

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[KevinInColorado]

How bout this: it looked like a tiny tiny spec. Last thing left in the pan from a local creek not known for gold. I checked for some reason to see if it would be magnetic, and it is. This is a photo I took of if under 60x microscope I bought: View attachment 1288936View attachment 1288937View attachment 1288939

The magnet action suggests a piece of iron trash or a micro meteorite or just a piece of iron rich rock. Probably no gold involved this time, sorry.

 

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[BrettCo124]

The magnet action suggests a piece of iron trash or a micro meteorite or just a piece of iron rich rock. Probably no gold involved this time, sorry.

A meteorite would be pretty cool! It would be crazy if a flake of gold somehow showed up in this creek. I have attached a photo of the only research I could come up with from the Pennypack creek. I've checked, and I'll check again for sure, but do you think this is enough evidence to suggest there really is no gold in the creek? I'm pretty sure glaciers were never present here, either. Sort of a let down, if so, because I have permission in a big area to search.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Shame he trash talks mining...while using the products of mining to do his writing. Shame he gets his history so wrong (that famous quote is from an eastern gold rush, not a western one!!). However, old bottles are cool

Go prospect elsewhere for gold though, seems he has that fact right at least.

 

[wildminer]

Shame he trash talks mining...while using the products of mining to do his writing. Shame he gets his history so wrong (that famous quote is from an eastern gold rush, not a western one!!). However, old bottles are cool

Go prospect elsewhere for gold though, seems he has that fact right at least.

'Aint that the truth. It's amazing how the anti miner types can't see past the end of their nose.

 

[Alex Burke]

It's amazing that people sit at a computer containing things mined, in a house that was built with a steel, copper and the like and are ignorant enough to try and ban mining. Then when they see China and South America doing sketchy mining they complain about that too although obviously that's where they'd like their minerals mined. Not in my backyard, or country!

These people are actually doing far more overall damage environmentally to the world and economically to the US by indirectly supporting mining overseas that sometimes uses primitive methods. They can't grasp or honestly admit to themselves they use mined items everyday as Kevin pointed out and that American mining is the safest most advanced eco-friendly mining in the world...

 

[BrettCo124]

[oQUOTE=KevinInColorado;4914922]Shame he trash talks mining...while using the products of mining to do his writing. Shame he gets his history so wrong (that famous quote is from an eastern gold rush, not a western one!!). However, old bottles are cool

Go prospect elsewhere for gold though, seems he has that fact right at least.[/QUOTE]

oops, didn't realize I was stirring the pot by posting that. I, too, read it and immediately became annoyed, especially when he sarcastically uses the word "blessedly".

Anyhow, I guess I will give up on this creek...but not without one more really long, good day of sluicing. Just in case

 

[njcommercialdiver]

looks like its a chunk of gold with a iron coating on top, ive gotten a few like that in NC.

 

[smokeythecat]

Take hammer, moderately crush, or use pliers. pyrite or garnet will shatter, gold will somewhat deform but not shatter. There is a gold belt west of Philly and south into Lancaster County.

 

[kcm]

That's pretty small. Would be nice to see it in a USB microscope.

 

[Frank D.]

Hey Brett,
I'm in Bensalem, and if you ever want to go out panning, hit me up.

 

[GLDPNR]

I live in Lancaster, PA. I get things like that in my pan all the time. I do have a much larger version of that rock that is partially gold. However, most of those rocks are called limotite psydomorphs. It used to be pyrite, then was replaced by other minerals. This was verified by a local jeweler. Hope that helps.

 

[GLDPNR]

Here is the psydomorph's and Limotite I was talking about.