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Post by kenneth on Apr 4, 2009 7:00:39 GMT -5
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Post by romare on Apr 4, 2009 11:42:31 GMT -5
pictures ain't all that clear Kenneth but it looks like gold on milky quartz.
Mark
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Post by eriktheawful on Apr 5, 2009 9:09:46 GMT -5
Does look like gold or maybe chalcopyrite... did you find any hematite or goethite there as well?
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Post by gemlover on Apr 6, 2009 4:56:44 GMT -5
did you try a streak? if not black (pyrite) or greenishblack (chalcopyrite), then if you got "yellow" = gold. even if these are very small samples, you should be able to get a streak.
john
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Post by kenneth on Apr 6, 2009 9:42:29 GMT -5
i am a total newb to this,it is yellow but when i tried to sctrach it with a needle it cracks so I am thinking pyrite?
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Post by sandalscout on Apr 7, 2009 0:25:40 GMT -5
Pyrite always streaks pretty dark, green to black, and if you fet a big enough streak you can really smell the sulfur in it.
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Post by eriktheawful on Apr 8, 2009 21:01:01 GMT -5
Probably one of the pyrites. Gold being a metal is malleable and ductile and should be difficult to break into a powder due to its malleability.
The kicker is that lots of quartz that contains gold will also contain other metal sulfides and their secondaries as this is how ores get deposited... if you found that where lots more is present you may get lucky and find gold too all be it with some persistence.
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Post by scott on Apr 16, 2009 9:10:25 GMT -5
Gold doesn't crack. It's most likely pyrite.
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