There are some simple tests to identify your gold nuggets and flakes when you do find them.
Rocks with gold flakes in them.
If the quartz sticks to the magnet then it contains iron pyrite or fool s gold.
If i rub my fingers on the outside of it enough small flakes of gold actually come off.
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To identify gold inside of a piece of quartz hold a magnet against the rock.
Look at where you found your suspected gold.
Nuggets or small flakes of gold are usually bright and untarnished.
Gold and silver are obtained from a variety of ores.
The most common gold flake stone material is metal.
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One of the ways to find raw gold begins with panning for it in creeks or rivers fed by eroded gold from mine or natural deposits in rock formations above the water sources.
Thought i would share this on the off chance someone could id it but mainly just to share my first gold flake spotting.
Most specimens of pyrite found in nature will have at least some tarnish on their surface.
Along with that there is heavy iron oxidization pieces of gold flakes and silver flakes every so often.
When i got home i noticed two of them appear to be sandstone with gold flakes imbedded all over.
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Placer gold roughly 75 to 95 percent real gold comes in a variety of shapes and sizes from small flakes to large bumpy nuggets.
Real gold will not scratch these substances.
Its that light silvery gold color not the dark lumpy fools gold look.
The most popular color.
The most popular color.
Most people think of nuggets and such but the truth is that very little comes from nuggets nearly all newly mined gold comes from ores mined from the natural hard rocks that contain gold in tiny even microscopic particles.
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Most real gold is found underground.
Pyrite has a brassy color.
If you didn t have to dig for it and it was just laying there on top of the dirt chances are good that it isn t actual gold.
You can also try to scratch a piece of glass or unglazed ceramic with the gold portion of the rock.
Most native gold is alloyed with silver and if the silver content is high enough the specimen will have a whitish yellow color.
Haven t done streak test yet got a streak plate coming in tomorrow.
When i picked up the rocks i didn t pay much attention to what they looked like.
