Ok, sorry for delays with reasons ( that means it wasn't excuses to go digging 
), I got the panning done. Seperate panning each time, careful for no contamination again by cleaning pans each time of heavies. All kept in same same order as photo #1 in this topic
Now for the results in the same order.
Sample 1, the hardest to crush, was orange and grainy cemented hard matrix with no quartz. I wish I had some as all the other samples had quartz, but there was still some within the matrix so I got it done tand it actually showed 3 dots of gold, ( too small to capture ) pretty much flour, but still gold. Some slithers of a silver floated around but was still heavy, possibly tin. Little black sand visible. The water turned orange brown. Compared to the rest, a floaty orange / red silt stays within the pan
Sample 2 is what I run through my sluice at times but only a certain 1 foot is extracted and crushed for sluicing. It luckily showed up 2 small dots again, but this time a 1mm x 1mm flake with .3mm depth ( roughly ). Its finsihed clean look in the bottom photo may look familiar on some old timers tailing piles. Water turned yellowy. Tiny traces of a tin, some magesite in small grains visible as black sand
Sample 3 contained zero traces of gold, very fine amount of tin again with magnesite. Boring apart from the water changing to dark grey / black. It containsbenough magnesite I could make a battery out of it using Zinc and Carbon.
Sample 4, was similar to 3 but the mixture was still different with amounts of quartz and size of quartz. It contained a hell of a lot of magnesite, massive amount of tin and even pure silver / white metal nugget visible in photo. Some larger heavy flakes were also visible with the same color
Thanks for participating and having a go at a guess. Mabey this will give you a hint on where to look but its still best to probably dodge it to save hard labour and sluice faster material. I enjoy working like the old timers and working as they did so I don't mind bleeding for fun, not even gold, just the experience is great to learn.
Another test is already on the way and will post it later for everyone to join in again and see results.
All pannings and results were kept in case of argument or discussion etc..thnx again people
), I got the panning done. Seperate panning each time, careful for no contamination again by cleaning pans each time of heavies. All kept in same same order as photo #1 in this topic
Now for the results in the same order.
Sample 1, the hardest to crush, was orange and grainy cemented hard matrix with no quartz. I wish I had some as all the other samples had quartz, but there was still some within the matrix so I got it done tand it actually showed 3 dots of gold, ( too small to capture ) pretty much flour, but still gold. Some slithers of a silver floated around but was still heavy, possibly tin. Little black sand visible. The water turned orange brown. Compared to the rest, a floaty orange / red silt stays within the pan
Sample 2 is what I run through my sluice at times but only a certain 1 foot is extracted and crushed for sluicing. It luckily showed up 2 small dots again, but this time a 1mm x 1mm flake with .3mm depth ( roughly ). Its finsihed clean look in the bottom photo may look familiar on some old timers tailing piles. Water turned yellowy. Tiny traces of a tin, some magesite in small grains visible as black sand
Sample 3 contained zero traces of gold, very fine amount of tin again with magnesite. Boring apart from the water changing to dark grey / black. It containsbenough magnesite I could make a battery out of it using Zinc and Carbon.
Sample 4, was similar to 3 but the mixture was still different with amounts of quartz and size of quartz. It contained a hell of a lot of magnesite, massive amount of tin and even pure silver / white metal nugget visible in photo. Some larger heavy flakes were also visible with the same color
Thanks for participating and having a go at a guess. Mabey this will give you a hint on where to look but its still best to probably dodge it to save hard labour and sluice faster material. I enjoy working like the old timers and working as they did so I don't mind bleeding for fun, not even gold, just the experience is great to learn.
Another test is already on the way and will post it later for everyone to join in again and see results.
All pannings and results were kept in case of argument or discussion etc..thnx again people
