Tellfamily
spending too much on rocks
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Post by Tellfamily on Feb 6, 2005 23:38:47 GMT -5
Has anyone every found any gold? I was cutting a rock tonight and found some in the matrix. Nothing that would make anyone rich, but still the same WAY COOL. I picked up the rock off e-bay a couple of months ago. It was really too large for my 8" Lortone saw. Took almost an hour to cut a piece off. Now mind you the saw & blade are Lortone Blue. I have to tell you this is real exciting.  |
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Tellfamily
spending too much on rocks
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Post by Tellfamily on Feb 6, 2005 23:40:15 GMT -5
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bwalters
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Post by bwalters on Feb 6, 2005 23:46:17 GMT -5
That is exciting, Tell! What kind of rock is it? And why is your saw and blade blue now?
Congratulations on an interesting find!
BE
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Feb 6, 2005 23:53:29 GMT -5
Hello TellFamily,
I have found free gold in quartz ... but nothing else.
That is interesting.
What happened to your saw and blade that turned them blue?
John
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Tellfamily
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Post by Tellfamily on Feb 6, 2005 23:55:23 GMT -5
The saw & blade are blue because they are both from Lortone. They are painted the Lortone light blue color. I was trying to say the gold was not from the saw blade.
I do not remember what kind of rock it was. I want to say some kind of blood stone. But not sure.
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Post by gaetzchamp on Feb 7, 2005 0:02:19 GMT -5
That's great!!!! You just never know when the stuff's gonna show up do you?????
How much more do you have??? Are you gonna keep the slab as is or try to cut it out????
Nice find and I'll bet you're excited about having the digital to take picts 'eh?
Gaetz
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Post by rockyraccoon on Feb 7, 2005 0:02:50 GMT -5
tell cool slab with the gold in it!
kim
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Post by Cher on Feb 7, 2005 0:15:56 GMT -5
Hey, that is just way too cool, what a neat find. Love the looks of that rock too, nice color. I found some tiny flecks in a stone once that looked like they could be gold but never anything that nice. WTG!!
Cher
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Feb 7, 2005 1:42:54 GMT -5
It certainly looks like gold, but I have to ask .... how can you be sure it isn't iron pyrite?
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69beeper
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Post by 69beeper on Feb 7, 2005 1:43:20 GMT -5
WTG!! You've struck GOLD!
What cool little surprise.
Jimmy
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Post by sandsman1 on Feb 7, 2005 7:54:23 GMT -5
wow tell thats realy cool lookin id keep that slab just the way it is---great find
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Post by docone31 on Feb 7, 2005 9:40:27 GMT -5
There is a market for wraps with gold laced cabs. They also command an high price.
Feels good. Huh.
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Post by creativeminded on Feb 7, 2005 9:51:21 GMT -5
When I was buying gold to melt down and make in to a pendant to hold a stone I got some gold with quartz in it. When I did melt it the quartz just disappeared.
Some of the milky quartz that I have seen on e-bay has gold in it.
Tami
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joanna
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Post by joanna on Feb 7, 2005 15:29:47 GMT -5
A few years back my husband worked on making a golf course in North Carolina, The bedrock in that area was all quartz and a lot of it had gold flakes in it. He brought a few huge rocks home with the little gold flakes in it. Their just sitting outside  Really should do something with it other than landscaping around the house, but the quartz chunks are huge 150 - 200 lbs. We did a gold mine tour when I went to visit. Can't think of the name of it off hand, but when it was first discovered in the 1800's they were digging chunks of gold out of the soil like potatoes. |
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JKowalski33
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Post by JKowalski33 on Feb 7, 2005 20:03:22 GMT -5
isnt there some sort of scratch test you can do to see if it is gold or pyrite? isnt it something like a steel nail will scratch gold, but not pyrite? i'm not sure what the moh's of either are
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Post by cookie3rocks on Feb 7, 2005 21:21:57 GMT -5
A local town claims to have the first gold discovered in the US, not California, bur Georgia. Delohnega, Ga. I have found lots of quartz with what appears to be gold in it, but Pyrite is also very predominate here. But you just know the color of real gold, and dude, that's the real thing. WOW!
cookie
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Post by docone31 on Feb 7, 2005 22:16:47 GMT -5
Georgia and Connecticut were the first states to disclose gold discoveries.
Of all the metals, gold has its own universal language. Pieces like that really make good cabs. It is something that is really well accepted. Great find.
If I had the choice of being able to choose which medium I prefer to work with, it would be silver. I guess as I started on it and I can work the oxides from soldering.
Great finds. All of the early gold finds played out early. The find at Sutters mill was the first large find in an arid depleted area. Alaska had a find, way up in the north. It was under every miners feet for almost a century. The placer gold was well known after the purchase, oil was unknown, and the "invisible" gold was yet to be discovered. In their hurry to pan, no miners during the early rush looked into the black sand near the tundra. It was full of color. It was found by a miner who had run out of luck and by chance and frustration did some dry panning of the sand. Bingo!
Gold is an universal language.
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 8, 2005 9:04:26 GMT -5
Gold is softer and maliable (sp) whicj=h means it bends and does not fracture- Iron Pyrite is brittle and will fracture- But just from the pics- that there IS GOLD- Congrates- It has that soft golden coler- where pyrite has a harsh yellow hue to it
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Feb 8, 2005 23:07:38 GMT -5
Hello Tell,
Gold will scratch
Pyrite will flake
Give it a try and see.
Good Luck
John
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Really should do something with it other than landscaping around the house, but the quartz chunks are huge 150 - 200 lbs.
