Post Pics of your gold, treasures found in the Supers here!

Matthew Roberts said:
All gold from the Superstition Mountains.

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View attachment 1681097 85% hand cobbed gold

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View attachment 1681099 piece from under Waltz bed

View attachment 1681100 Jim Hatt gold

View attachment 1681102 Cinnabar and Realgar from Mercury Mine.
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It just doesn't seem like the place to find placer gold.

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Hal Croves said:
It seems to be where people report finding it.
Not one example in the Sups?
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hal...people have found gold in many places where it hasn't been reported....i have found it on bush highway down by the river...four peaks...the goldfield mountains...i know quite a few people that have panned gold from many places in the supers
 

azdave35 said:
hal...people have found gold in many places where it hasn't been reported....i have found it on bush highway down by the river...four peaks...the goldfield mountains...i know quite a few people that have panned gold from many places in the supers
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I have never tried it.
Panned gold can travel a good distance with heavy rains, I assume.

I read that the Superstitions were void of gold deposits, officially. Not geologically correct/conducive.
 

Hal Croves said:
I have never tried it.
Panned gold can travel a good distance with heavy rains, I assume.

I read that the Superstitions were void of gold deposits, officially. Not geologically correct/conducive.
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hal....according to the geologist's the supers are mostly volcanic and void of valuable minerals.....but i have seen alot of gold come from the supers..i have even seen it in place in quartz....next time you are in there take a pan with you and check some of the washes...you should be able to find color in alot of them...
 

That rough placer with black heavies, in the pic above that Matthew and Clay found, is very interesting indeed. Bet they thought so too! It APPEARS to have not moved very far from the source. Depending on the actual circumstances of how and where they found it, they may be on to something very good. Stuff like that is not often talked about or posted, but it's not the only such find in that area that I've heard of or seen ;)
 

PotBelly Jim said:
That rough placer with black heavies, in the pic above that Matthew and Clay found, is very interesting indeed. Bet they thought so too! It APPEARS to have not moved very far from the source. Depending on the actual circumstances of how and where they found it, they may be on to something very good. Stuff like that is not often talked about or posted, but it's not the only such find in that area that I've heard of or seen ;)
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I'll leave gold panning to those who know what their looking for.
Understanding history and a perfect view are enough.
 

Hal Croves said:
I'll leave gold panning to those who know what their looking for.
Understanding history and a perfect view are enough.
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Once you get started with your own gold pan, you won't want to quit.

Ditto to Dave's words on gold being where you find it. I found gold in NW Nebraska, of all places, just happened to be tearing around on a back road and spotted a tell tale stringer of black sand running right across the road and had to try it. Sure enough there was gold, not enough to pay for the gas to get there but a tiny amount. Even found gold while digging the water lines on my place here in SD, unfortunately it works out to about $20 worth of gold if I were to rip up the entire place. I have panned gold in the Superstitions in a number of places but it was never very much, it didn't even cover the bottom of a little half ounce glass vial from years of panning samples. Also found gold in quartz in the Superstitions, but again it was just a tiny amount nothing to get excited over.

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Oroblanco said:
Once you get started with your own gold pan, you won't want to quit.

Ditto to Dave's words on gold being where you find it. I found gold in NW Nebraska, of all places, just happened to be tearing around on a back road and spotted a tell tale stringer of black sand running right across the road and had to try it. Sure enough there was gold, not enough to pay for the gas to get there but a tiny amount. Even found gold while digging the water lines on my place here in SD, unfortunately it works out to about $20 worth of gold if I were to rip up the entire place. I have panned gold in the Superstitions in a number of places but it was never very much, it didn't even cover the bottom of a little half ounce glass vial from years of panning samples. Also found gold in quartz in the Superstitions, but again it was just a tiny amount nothing to get excited over.

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Yes, South Dakota has gold and every State but North Dakota they say. But Frank does well in the Supers and some others including me. So it’s There, Silver Too.

Wrmickel1
 

Okay, this is from about 100 miles North of the Supers, but how many of you have seen Bornite (Peacock) Ore that looked like this?

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gollum said:
Okay, this is from about 100 miles North of the Supers, but how many of you have seen Bornite (Peacock) Ore that looked like this?

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Mike
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I have. Tons of the stuff in situ, included as part of a massive sulfide vein that also yielded argentite (silver), galena (lead), sphalerite (zinc) and free gold picture rock in quartz vugs and stringers - all in seemingly unending quantities. Idarado Mining Company, Red Mountain Pass CO, ten-hundred level, 1974.

A lot of the guys made beer money selling mineral specimens to Benji's Rock Shop in Ouray, but they kept the gold for themselves.

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Gollum,
There is a bit of that ore in the Orogande N.M. mining areas north of El Paso, Tx., south of Alamogordo, N. M. Hwy 54 bordering the White Sands Missile Range/McGregor Range of Ft. Bliss. Very little gold there but the GP of A actually has a small site there for its members. That small site is very mineral-rich, but has a lot of high grade iron ore and abandoned mines all over the place. B L M controlled.
 

sdcfia said:
I have. Tons of the stuff in situ, included as part of a massive sulfide vein that also yielded argentite (silver), galena (lead), sphalerite (zinc) and free gold picture rock in quartz vugs and stringers - all in seemingly unending quantities. Idarado Mining Company, Red Mountain Pass CO, ten-hundred level, 1974.

A lot of the guys made beer money selling mineral specimens to Benji's Rock Shop in Ouray, but they kept the gold for themselves.

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Thanks Steve,

Like I said, I have seen a ton of Peacock Ore, but I have never seen it "STRIPED" as in the first pic. I will say though, it was from the opposite side of a hill from a very old (never claimed) working. A trench cut about 25 feet deep and fifty feet long. These rocks came from the same vein, and your mineral content is eerily similar. A lot of uplifted shale with fat stringers and veins of quartz. The only big difference is this area also includes massive copper. This vein is about one and a half miles from the old Iron King Mine in Humboldt Mining Dist. Its near a place called Galena Gulch LOL.
 

gollum said:
Thanks Steve,

Like I said, I have seen a ton of Peacock Ore, but I have never seen it "STRIPED" as in the first pic. I will say though, it was from the opposite side of a hill from a very old (never claimed) working. A trench cut about 25 feet deep and fifty feet long. These rocks came from the same vein, and your mineral content is eerily similar. A lot of uplifted shale with fat stringers and veins of quartz. The only big difference is this area also includes massive copper. This vein is about one and a half miles from the old Iron King Mine in Humboldt Mining Dist. Its near a place called Galena Gulch LOL.
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There are numerous occurrences of high-grade gold found in massive copper deposits. The Santa Rita del Cobre in NM featured tons of native copper on the surface of the deeper copper deposit, but also very plentiful free gold alongside the bornite veins early in the mine's development by the Spaniards. As you know, it's my suspicion that this ore was the source of the Noss copper bars he was trying to peddle as gold in the 30s. The high copper content of those bars carried a dark tarnish, causing Doc to originally mistake them for "pig iron". Of course, I could be wrong.
 

sdcfia said:
There are numerous occurrences of high-grade gold found in massive copper deposits. The Santa Rita del Cobre in NM featured tons of native copper on the surface of the deeper copper deposit, but also very plentiful free gold alongside the bornite veins early in the mine's development by the Spaniards. As you know, it's my suspicion that this ore was the source of the Noss copper bars he was trying to peddle as gold in the 30s. The high copper content of those bars carried a dark tarnish, causing Doc to originally mistake them for "pig iron". Of course, I could be wrong.
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The typical copper mine has about 2% gold content. The gold pays for extraction and refining, so the copper is pure profit. The gold and silver content is why Resolution Trust Corporation went to all the trouble it did to snatch the Apache's Land East of the Supers for Copper Mining.

Mike
 

gollum said:
The typical copper mine has about 2% gold content. The gold pays for extraction and refining, so the copper is pure profit. The gold and silver content is why Resolution Trust Corporation went to all the trouble it did to snatch the Apache's Land East of the Supers for Copper Mining.

Mike
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mike..quite a few of my friends have worked in the ray pit and inspiration mine...the mines may claim only 2% to the irs but take my word for it....its alot higher and does more than just pay for equipment
 

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