If you found a big lump of gold how long until.....?

[Goldfreak]

If you found a large lump of specimen gold in quartz and sold it how long have you got before they analyse it and work out roughly where it came from ? How geographically close can they get ?

 

[hAyyoUinAU]

No one can find a piece of gold and be able to tell you where it came from. Not specifically.

 

[Swinging & digging]

To the exact reef outcrop, they know what lease it came from, Gold has a DNA just like a human.

 

[Goldchaser1]

To the exact reef outcrop, they know what lease it came from, Gold has a DNA just like a human.

yes thats true,theyll have the tenement no within a few hours,what you been up to goldfreak!!!???

 

[Swinging & digging]

To the exact reef outcrop, they know what lease it came from, Gold has a DNA just like a human.

yes thats true,theyll have the tenement no within a few hours,what you been up to goldfreak!!!???

Yes i thought he was asking a loaded question?
Best to respect lease owners rights to the minerals on their claims.

 

[Goldfreak]

It's a totally hypothetical question. Wish it wasn't. Found and area with some very interesting quartz, no visible gold yet though 8.(

 

[madtuna]

Never...cause no specimens of mine ever make it passed the rock crusher

 

[Goldfreak]

Just interested to know if selling a piece would allow others to know where you found it.

 

[Goldchaser1]

Just interested to know if selling a piece would allow others to know where you found it.

definetly not goldfreak,i was just pulling the p**s ,sounded suss lol

 

[madtuna]

Should have kept it up...like somebody go park a van with blacked out windows opposite his house

 

[Goldfreak]

Should have kept it up...like somebody go park a van with blacked out windows opposite his house

Do that I and I will kindly supply that van with some free ventilation

 

[Swinging & digging]

Me and a mate found a gold bearing Reef and got a few assays done, average result 11 ounces to the ton.
Word got out from where we got assays done and we had a survey crew try following us out into the bush so took the really hard route and
they got bogged in a bog hole, which is where we left them 25 kms from our Reef. :Y:

 

[madtuna]

See... as well as Being under suspicion of either illegal mining or gold theft now theyre pulling up your files to see if youve got a firearms licence

 

[Goldfreak]

Me and a mate found a gold bearing Reef and got a few assays done, average result 11 ounces to the ton.
Word got out from where we got assays done and we had a survey crew try following us out into the bush so took the really hard route and
they got bogged in a bog hole, which is where we left them 25 kms from our Reef. :Y:

There is a story with a happy beginning and ending. Can't have been real happy with the people doing your assay tHough

 

[Wally69]

Got to rub off those Perth mint brands off those bars first, they are a dead give away

A chip off a sixpence in the crucible would add a bit of confusion.......for private reef gold protection purposes

 

[Goldfreak]

I am now searching for all reefs exactly 25km from a bog hole

 

[hAyyoUinAU]

They can compare it to other known samples if they have them. Quartz is Quartz, Ironstone is Ironstone and Gold is Gold.
If it is covered in dirt, that may help them to narrow down the compositions of the soil maybe. But they would still need other soil samples to compare to.

Gold from one vein in one area can have very different compositions to gold in another vein within the same area.

They may look at form and percentage of silver, but still no way they can look at a nugget, and tell you exactly where it came from.
All they can do is compare it and make a guestimate.

Where a nugget was found and where it was said to be found are most of the times 2 very different things.
The only one who really knows, is the person who found it.

 

[Goldchaser1]

Me and a mate found a gold bearing Reef and got a few assays done, average result 11 ounces to the ton.
Word got out from where we got assays done and we had a survey crew try following us out into the bush so took the really hard route and
they got bogged in a bog hole, which is where we left them 25 kms from our Reef. :Y:

wasnt a camo landrover???

 

[user 7268]

Cash buyer .............. cash buyer ....................... cash buyer ..................... thank you and goodbye :Y:

Mate go and stay at the Clermont van park ................ have a few drinks with the lads and if you have any good finds for the day, you may be asked what GPA where you detecting ? Next morning they beat you there, as they follow your tracks in from the gate ................... true story :Y:

 

[Westozadventures]

more detectives than detectorists on this forum