That's awesome! The pictures with the rounded gold and inside the mine are very cool.
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Hey Dennis, Have you guys ever pumped the water out of the old mine? Is that possible?Michigan Yooper
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It's been way too hot to do any actual mining and my son's workload is overwhelming. So, I'm back to cleaning dirty ore samples in the shade of the Oaks these were metal detector finds off mine dumps. I had these samples soaking in whink and a lot of the finely disseminated particles of gold drop off along with the host rock in the bottom of the plastic jar. I drain off and save the solution then pan the samples in a gold pan pick then out the specimens that need to go back in. All the smalls are collected to be smelted when we have enough to make a button these sample were also soaked in acid first. Then neutralized with a baking soda wash then into whink to try and remove some of the quartz.
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Have you ever looked into selling your specimen pieces? The ones with visible gold amoung the quartz.Bruce
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Not yet but there's a good collector's market locally if we ever decide to sell. Maybe this winter when the paychecks slow down lol.Last edited by south fork; 07-28-2022, 10:58 PM.
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