Wife: Black Friday shopping. Me: Snuck out to dig some dirt.

[Boarteats]

Wife, shopping all morning. Kids, sleeping. Mom in law in residence. Perfect time to dig a couple pans of dirt. Completely reasonable, right!?

Found a bit of the yellow stuff. Not bad for two pans of dirt. Also getting some silver in the form of silver chloride.

Added annotated pic.

 

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[No gold in NY]

Nice job!! I can't do that. It's 80 miles to the closest gold.

 

[Boarteats]

Nice job!! I can't do that. It's 80 miles to the closest gold.

Completely dumb luck. Bought my house more than 20 yrs ago. Had no interest in geology or minerals at the time. I'm a computer guy by trade. Was 10 years or thereabouts before I even took a close look at the "stream" in my back yard.

Below are cool metamorphosed silica-based rocks from my stream. Super heavy. Lots of iron oxides along with sulfides of various kinds. Great for polishing!