Gold/ asbestos

[Davent]

Mate got a good signal from a piece of quartz. No visible gold.
Smashed the quartz open and inside, like a seed, was a gun metal greyish seed like mineral.
Under a loupe, there looks like beautiful gold in the mineral.
Now the guessing starts.
What is the grey mineral. Under the light of the loupe, it looks to have blue/ to purplish hue.
Mate thinks its azurite, I think its blue asbestos!
Is gold ever found near/ or in either?
Anyone know.
Sorry no useful pics at all.
The dark mineral is about the nice of a thumb nail, detected with a zed, booming signal. Non magnetic.

 

[grubstake]

Pyrites perhaps?

 

[user 4386]

Mate got a good signal from a piece of quartz. No visible gold.
Smashed the quartz open and inside, like a seed, was a gun metal greyish seed like mineral.
Under a loupe, there looks like beautiful gold in the mineral.
Now the guessing starts.
What is the grey mineral. Under the light of the loupe, it looks to have blue/ to purplish hue.
Mate thinks its azurite, I think its blue asbestos!
Is gold ever found near/ or in either?
Anyone know.
Sorry no useful pics at all.
The dark mineral is about the nice of a thumb nail, detected with a zed, booming signal. Non magnetic.

Too difficult without a photo. Neither blue asbestos or azurite are gun metal grey - by definition, asbestos consists of fibres. Gold can occur in either.
These are good for photographing things like that - this has a UK price but can get online around $A6-8. However phone lens needs to be not too far from edge of phone (too far for something like a Galaxy 10)

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/60X-Mag...&brand=Unbranded&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1

Azurite

Blue asbstos (crocidolite)

 

[Davent]

Color looks the same as pic #2
But its just like an olive kind of shape and size inside the quartz host. Pretty weird.
Ill have another look later today and try and get a decent pic, but my phone is not taking good pics atm.

 

[user 4386]

Get a steel sewing needle and try scratching it. Asbestos will always break down into visible fibres. If it is not that, you will know the streak colour (the colour of the powder. Assuming it is not such a nice specimen that you don't want to damage it, that is....

 

[Davent]

I dont think my mate will want to damage it.
Its white quartz host, fractured flat, and the black speci thing sits proud above the flat, and has visible gold in it.

 

[mbasko]

Graphite?

 

[Davent]

erfect:

 

[Solid Luck]

Color looks the same as pic #2
But its just like an olive kind of shape and size inside the quartz host. Pretty weird.
Ill have another look later today and try and get a decent pic, but my phone is not taking good pics atm.

Maybe its the "Alien" egg? Don't scratch it or we're all doomed.

 

[RM Outback]

Definitely don't ruin that piece it's a ripper find erfect: maybe once in a lifetime :beer: will be nice to find out what it is.

 

[Davent]

Color looks the same as pic #2
But its just like an olive kind of shape and size inside the quartz host. Pretty weird.
Ill have another look later today and try and get a decent pic, but my phone is not taking good pics atm.

Maybe its the "Alien" egg? Don't scratch it or we're all doomed.

Hahahaha 2020! :bomb:

 

[Davent]

Definitely don't ruin that piece it's a ripper find erfect: maybe once in a lifetime :beer: will be nice to find out what it is.

Bloke who found it finds a few once in a lifetime finds! He is a good operator

 

[Heatho]

Certainly different, nice find.

 

[Davent]

Thanks for the replies,
Can mods close this now please :Y: