Stupid question of the day Pyrite or ???

[Steve the Greek]

Hello guys
Just starting crushing Quartz and I'm finding a lot of the ????
I find a lot in my pan it does sink to the bottom but its very small and lots of it.
Anyway will post a couple of pics.
Cheers Steve

 

[stoyve]

Gee mate, l hope it is gold .
Can you crack it or crumble it?

 

[Mike Harding]

Hard to tell from the pics the hard sunlight washes out much of the contrast but it looks a git goldie to me?

Where did you find it? GPS co-ordinates ideally, just interested

 

[BigWave]

Looks like iron mineralisation of the quartz.
I see tons of that in the GT.

 

[philbert21]

Put some of it on an old teaspoon any let itif its gold it stay goldy colour sit over a gas stove for 10 min If its pirite it will go black , If its iron oxide it will go dark grey
if its gold it will stay goldy colour

 

[Hunting the yellow]

Hello guys
Just starting crushing Quartz and I'm finding a lot of the ????
I find a lot in my pan it does sink to the bottom but its very small and lots of it.
Anyway will post a couple of pics.
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sorry to disappoint you but short answer is no you can however do some tests the most simplest test would be to crush a small amount of it if it breaks up its not gold. gold is in a way very much like lead when you hit it it flatters out like a pan cake but dose not break into shards/bits like quartz dose or pyrite I would believe from my experience it would be mica and clay in between milky quartz crystals very common on the goldfields especially above the oxidised zone of a mine.