Gold

[south fork]

These concentrates are what washed through a number 30 screen then a ribbed sluice box next the blue bowl concentrator. Then panned again the micro gold is so fine mercury is used to collect I will build a retort or buy one to recover the mercury to keep this prosses environmentally friendly. Look like the two-pound rock will give up a half ounce of gold total hopefully lol. Clean the mercury off and you have some nice gold. That pile of grey mud is mercury and gold.

[south fork]

The batteries are charging

[Ron Kelley]

The Quartz veins are great.

[Ron Kelley]

Outstanding Dennis! I will bet that the detector will be busy looking for similar ore.

[2ndoldman]

Unbelievable 😱

[south fork]

Helped my son clear a trail so we could ride the quads closer to an old mine dump so he could metal detect. It's a lot easier to haul rocks on the quads than our backs this two-pound rock had around a 1/4 ounce of gold. Broken with a single jack then ran through the chain mill then panned to recover the free gold. Just a random rock that the detector toned out on the old timers didn't have the technology to recover this without milling every rock.

[south fork]

My son brought me some ore samples he found metal detecting no visible gold weak signal. But after a little mortar and pestle work some dirty gold, it will go in the smelt jar for refining.

[Overshot]

I’ll buy one of those cool specimens! This is a fantastic thread! Congrats on the finds!

[Tam]

I have some quartz with yellow in them I need to hit with the detector .

[south fork]

I'm always looking at the quartz points I find no luck yet.

[Narrow Way Knapper]

I keep thinking I might find gold in some of the quartz I've been knapping. No luck so far, LOL!

[Josie]

I got to get in the creek for more than one reason. Golds been found in the creek. There’s a mine not too far from here.

[south fork]

It's been way too hot for any mining, but I have a shady spot under the oaks for cleaning ore samples. These started at about 41 grams over an ounce cleaned will be saved as specimen's .

[Tenoch]

Thanks Sr, I'm saving up for a better detector, here are some old mines, but I only have a humble vanquish which has given me some joy. A nox is better than an orx for this

[south fork]

We have a number of detectors, but a Minelab Nox 800 and a Minelab 2300 are the primary go to machines.