Dolly Potting Quartz rock

[pjg100]

Hey Nugget,
thanks for the photos, should of searched this subject in DIY.
Will use the dimensions to get the father in law to make one up for me. When he gets back from a trip.

Peter.

 

[HeadsUp]

I might jump in on this too if i may... I've found an area that contains quite alot of loose quartz in the ground, and i keep hearing about this rose or pink colored quartz being the goods, well this place has allsorts but from the bits you pick up it would seem the veins are too fine to contain anything. Should i be looking closer at the quartz samples in this pic or trying to find stuff that closer resembles that of nuggets above pic. I also come across a bit of clean looking quartz like the top left rock but the veins are dark to black rather than a pinky color. The top right is just a plain white piece for comparison (plenty of that too)
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2226/1394085657_016.jpg

i would crush all that bottom row if they felt heavy or produced a signal to the detector

also quartz that is evenly translucent tan / light brown coloured too

 

[Twapster]

Yep already checking videos on Youtube.

Nugget in the photo the pot looks quite narrow, can you crush decent rocks in there or do you have to break them 1st?

 

[Nugget]

I got the dolly pot custom made to suit my needs but you can go as big or as small as you want. I pre-smash the quarts (wrapped in an old shirt or rag) into smaller pieces using a hammer, and although it involves a little extra work it does make crushing by hand a lot easier. A hammer drill like what HTY uses would come in handy but for the small amounts that I'm crushing, I don't mind doing it by hand.

 

[Mothy81]

Hello all,I'm pretty new to prospecting but have always played around panning,anyway I have found an old stamper site and there is truck loads of quartz and looks like granite piles. I have panned a 10 litre bucket of some and found flour gold and the odd picker,my question is I have looked at some of the quartz and it is full of seams of fools gold,I have crushed some down and panned it and there is no gold,where do u think the gold is coming from? I will get some picture uploaded soon,any suggestions would be great!
Thanks

 

[dwt]

Hello all,I'm pretty new to prospecting but have always played around panning,anyway I have found an old stamper site and there is truck loads of quartz and looks like granite piles. I have panned a 10 litre bucket of some and found flour gold and the odd picker,my question is I have looked at some of the quartz and it is full of seams of fools gold,I have crushed some down and panned it and there is no gold,where do u think the gold is coming from? I will get some picture uploaded soon,any suggestions would be great!
Thanks

sometimes the fine gold can be stuck to the pyrite, the old timers used to burn this off to recover the gold 8)
not sure how you could accomplish this now!

 

[Mothy81]

This is 2 handfuls of 25 mesh material!

 

[MDH]

I might jump in on this too if i may... I've found an area that contains quite alot of loose quartz in the ground, and i keep hearing about this rose or pink colored quartz being the goods, well this place has allsorts but from the bits you pick up it would seem the veins are too fine to contain anything. Should i be looking closer at the quartz samples in this pic or trying to find stuff that closer resembles that of nuggets above pic. I also come across a bit of clean looking quartz like the top left rock but the veins are dark to black rather than a pinky color. The top right is just a plain white piece for comparison (plenty of that too)
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/2226/1394085657_016.jpg

i would crush all that bottom row if they felt heavy or produced a signal to the detector

also quartz that is evenly translucent tan / light brown coloured too

I don't think these are any heavier than normal, I just picked these few up on the walk back to the car to ask the question if that was the "pink" quartz people talk about. I haven't actually looked for it it's basically everywhere at this location. I'm currently detector less (new to the game) but I might have a hunt around next time I'm out there and see if I can find some better pieces to play with. What should I be looking for? Pieces with more ironstone present or trying to find where the quartz reef as such? These rocks are literally scattered everywhere, the creek bed through to the ground well above flood level.

 

[Heatho]

Hello all,I'm pretty new to prospecting but have always played around panning,anyway I have found an old stamper site and there is truck loads of quartz and looks like granite piles. I have panned a 10 litre bucket of some and found flour gold and the odd picker,my question is I have looked at some of the quartz and it is full of seams of fools gold,I have crushed some down and panned it and there is no gold,where do u think the gold is coming from? I will get some picture uploaded soon,any suggestions would be great!
Thanks

sometimes the fine gold can be stuck to the pyrite, the old timers used to burn this off to recover the gold 8)
not sure how you could accomplish this now!

I read somewhere there is a new technique, crush the quartz, then leave it in a tub for 6 months or longer and keep it damp, not wet but damp, supposedly bacteria and oxygen break down the Pyrite and relase the fine gold just the same as roasting. Could be worth a try.

 

[Twapster]

Very interesting, I guess the rocks we want are non water worn with lots of inclusions.

 

[Nugget]

I managed to crush a little more quartz today, surprisingly I only found 2 very small specks from the pan below but I still have plenty more to be crushed.

It took around 15 minutes to crush what's in the pan using the dolly pot. I probably could have spent another 5-10 minutes to get it a little finer but the young bloke was trying to eat it all on me :lol:

 

[dwt]

Myself and Drbean had you guys(dolly potters) in mind when had a quick snoop around here yesterday so we nicknamed it "doly pot hill"(for you guys)

 

[dwt]

kind of thinking i should of rotated that last pic dont want the Dr falling off the side of that hill!!!!