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Gold Prospecting
Small Scale Gold Mining
Geology(ish) question
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<blockquote data-quote="MJB" data-source="post: 119856" data-attributes="member: 1222"><p>If the conglomerate rock looks sort of like this one...</p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1222/1417995589_photo-0194.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Then I would say it is worthwhile crushing it to release its gold. I have come across this stuff and some chunks have gold and some are barren. I think I have figured out that the chunks with larger pieces of quartz in it have the gold. Small pieces of quartz and its barren. Not that the quartz has the gold but the bigger rocks were in the bottom of the ancient river bed and thats where the gold would be too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MJB, post: 119856, member: 1222"] If the conglomerate rock looks sort of like this one... [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1222/1417995589_photo-0194.jpg[/img] Then I would say it is worthwhile crushing it to release its gold. I have come across this stuff and some chunks have gold and some are barren. I think I have figured out that the chunks with larger pieces of quartz in it have the gold. Small pieces of quartz and its barren. Not that the quartz has the gold but the bigger rocks were in the bottom of the ancient river bed and thats where the gold would be too. [/QUOTE]
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