What travels with galena?

[BentFunky]

I've read that silver can oftentimes be found in lead deposits. Is this true for PGMs as well?

Encountered rock that is mix of galena, iron oxides, and small amounts of other sulfides like chalcopyrite.

Not an expert, but looks like rock might have formed as a result of hydrothermal processes.

 

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[BlasterJ]

Silver, Lead, Zinc are often found together. And if they are blasting, crushing and processing huge volumes of ore for the primary commodity, they often have secondary circuits to recover things like Gold and Copper. You can read the reports for this place for one example:

Project Darwin, LLC.

 

[BentFunky]

Silver, Lead, Zinc are often found together. And if they are blasting, crushing and processing huge volumes of ore for the primary commodity, they often have secondary circuits to recover things like Gold and Copper. You can read the reports for this place for one example:

Project Darwin, LLC.

Thx @BlasterJ! Appreciate the link. Good info. One of the pics of ore looks like the galena that’s I’ve found. In my case the, the ore is already in pieces on the ground for easy access.

 

[dave wiseman]

In a gold bearing district galena is a great sign for gold

 

[BentFunky]

In a gold bearing district galena is a great sign for gold

Just found a bunch of pyrophyllite. Already have seen kaolinite, chaladony, and hematite. Starting to look epithermal.

Speaking of pyrophyllite, anyone ever find gold in pyrophyllite?

 

[dave wiseman]

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...hUKEwjqncHqksjqAhWOpZ4KHXTUCBUQ4dUDCAk&uact=5

 

[BentFunky]

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...hUKEwjqncHqksjqAhWOpZ4KHXTUCBUQ4dUDCAk&uact=5

@dave wiseman, appreciate the links. Google brain was my first stop. My question wasn't terribly clear, but I was asking about mineralization within the pyrophyllite rocks themselves. However, in retrospect, this is not a very good question.

In my defense, the pyrophyllite rocks have something interesting going on with them. With some testing, I'll figure it out.

In an effort to partially redeem this thread, I'll post a picture of the rocks that do have gold. These are NOT pyrophyllite. Didn't recognize it at first, but its vuggy quartz or vuggy quartzite (if there is such a thing), very heavily mineralized with hematite, jarosite (I believe), and various other minerals that have deposited themselves or crystalized inside the vugs. They become more apparent if you drop a chunk of this rock in warm HCL and wait a few minutes. Everything is better with warm HCL .

Gold resides mostly in the dark portions of rock. Crushing is a pain. These rocks are rediculously hard.