Nice gold Wally, looks better than you described on the phone. 
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Found this in a pile of old quartz throw outs right at the entry of a shaft. It was sitting off my detector and I smashed it open and got one little nugget about .1g out of it and noticed heaps of shiny gold flakes throughout the rest of it. I crashed it up a fair bit in the dolly pot but the gold is so fine in it. How do I process this rock and seperate the rest of the gold?
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The entire lot needs to be crushed
I pound mine in the dolly until it is really fine, I use air to blow the fines off and re dolly and repeat until I'm sure I have good separation.
I then wet pan and extract flakes by hand. The super fine stuff I put into a seperate bottle as best as I can with the view of adding it to a crucible when melting a batch of flakes. I usually let the fines dry in the pan and then transfer to a bottle in a dry state but a sucker bottle for wet storage would work just as well.
The good thing about really small gold, if you keep pounding it, it becomes really small flat gold and is easier to spot and lift out of a wet pan with a dry finger. Although I do like the idea of having a small ball of mercury like the oldtimers did, I havn't gone there yet.
I then wet pan and extract flakes by hand. The super fine stuff I put into a seperate bottle as best as I can with the view of adding it to a crucible when melting a batch of flakes. I usually let the fines dry in the pan and then transfer to a bottle in a dry state but a sucker bottle for wet storage would work just as well.
The good thing about really small gold, if you keep pounding it, it becomes really small flat gold and is easier to spot and lift out of a wet pan with a dry finger. Although I do like the idea of having a small ball of mercury like the oldtimers did, I havn't gone there yet.
I crush small amounts using in iron bar to bash rocks in an iron cylinder with an iron base. Nothings welded so I know I don't get contaminations between samples
What is your similar problem davent?davent said:
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One foot out the door
SCROUNGER said:
Amherst/Talbot great area that rarely disappoints some areas are still benefiting from the burn off a few years ago, very slow regrowth in the ground cover.
Cheers T.
Wally69 said:
Just to prove possibilities, even without detergent to relieve surface tension, I crushed the leftover Quartz from the cracked open specimens above and carefully panned separated the dolly fines with a small garret pan.
Bacchus said:Been having withdrawals but managed to get out to Chapel Hill for a couple of hours today after a bit of time off , rewarded with this little bit
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4092/1447128934_image.jpg
Nice work. You driving a white 4wd? I was training at Jupiter Creek
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