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Second trip out with the 6000 got this, 0.6 g (about). Largest piece so far and the second from the hole. First bit was under 0.1. Found in a well worked but large area of diggings. No junk surprisingly. This is about 1 cm long. Sorry about the terrible photograph.

Is the gold visible in the challenger pegmatite? How is it distributed in the pegmatite? Is it associated particularly with the quartz, or one of the other minerals or not?

I’m pretty sure the mine at my friends place was on the other side of Yan Yean Rd. Maybe too small to be marked in the geovic map?

When I was 12 a friend of mine lived in Yarrambat and there was a shaft on his family’s property. I spent ages specking the mullock but only ever found one tiny grain of gold in quartz. I can’t recall clearly where they lived but I think their place fronted the Eastern side of Yan Yean Road

this is not my specimen but a detail of a small gold specimen from Switzerland, showing growth structures very similar to those visible (through the loupe) on the specimen I found in Victoria this weekend.

More a tell than a show this time: out again Sunday to a spot in central Victoria with the sdc 2300. Found three very small bits, one in a very small cavity (vugh) in quartz. My son and I noticed that the gold is very bright and that different parts of it reflected light at the same time when...

Small specimen, gold in quartz found with sdc 2300 hired from the very nice people at Coiltek Maryborough last Sunday in the gt victoria. Nothing to boast about, the whole thing is maybe 1 cm long and might contain less than .1g but I’m happy. In the second picture you can see that the quartz is...

Interesting. I always thought this was a reliable diagnostic feature. I’d be interstate in hearing about your experiences prospecting in Beechworth. Were you mainly looking for quartz etc or gold? Thanks for the beautiful negative crystal picture.

Thanks! Right, thanks for setting me straight there. Of course the voids in quartz are not always negative crystals, it’s just that they are the most beautiful and therefore the most memorable, Still, there’s a clear difference between the uniformly spherical bubbles in glasses and the shape...

Given the bubbles inside and the colour it’s almost certainly glass. Quartz never has bubbles unless they are bubbles inside a liquid in an inclusion. These will move when the quartz is moved. The liquid and bubbles will be inside a negative crystal in the quartz, that is a void in the shape of...

Hi. All quartz crystals might have fluid/gas inclusions. If there is a bubble that moves around they are sometimes known as enhydros. These may be found in the Beechworth area but not many quartz crystals or pieces of water worn quartz will have fluid/gas incisions that are visible without a...

Re #22: looks like the surface expression of a structure that is eroding differently to surrounding material, maybe more brittle, less affected by chemical weathering. That would explain coarser texture. Iron rich judging by the reddish colour. Why not just a gold hosting quartz/iron rich vein...

speaking of skills (or lack of) I can't even work out how to like this post!

or at least look at their websites to get an idea of prices!

would be great to get some higher res photographs of these. the value of mineral specimens is also limited by the size of the market - there are not many buyers who'd pay the premium they attract. maybe consider contacting a specialist dealer - crystal fraction or ausrox for example?

found (not by me) in north western australia late last year, weight 44 g (?). crystalline gold is rarer, but in some places gold is only found in crystalline form. also small/abraded crystals of gold are much commoner and less valuable than larger sharper crystals. these very well formed...

also very visible in the last photo, in the upper part. all wire gold is crystalline actually, although crystals may be obscured by abrasion etc.

no question, it's crystalline, in the second photo down, lots of parallel structures are visible, characteristic of crystalline materials.

let me know if it's still available?

I'm interested