Gold an sliver with quartz stones on property can anyone help identify these plz help im unsure if its fools good??

[Andrewrgh123]

Its ether Gold an sliver in qwartz stone on property can anyone help identify these im unsure if its fools gold or if it's fine gold with silver plz help
I also found a crumblely stone i think its qwartz stone with multiple collums of this sliver looking stuff plz help sorry for my shitty Australian English

 

[Heatho]

Quartz with pyrite most likely.

 

[Andrewrgh123]

Tell me if im wrong but isnt pyrite formed in squares in qwartz this is some what smooth an very fine I've just noticed these oxidised qwartz just seen before dark. an there's heaps of this stuff in clusters on my sisters boyfriends property i just wanna know if it's worth digging it up

 

[Heatho]

Mate, that one is possibly gold but the photo isn't clear enough to tell. Pyrite is often cubic but you can also have arsenopyrite or chalchopyrite which looks more like the stuff you have there. Best idea would be to crush a sample and pan it off to see if there is gold in the pan.

Also you could try scratching the bits you think are gold with a knife and it it crumbles it is not gold. If you get a garlic type of odour come off it when you scratch it then it's ansenopyrite.

 

[Dave79]

Probably not..... gold is hard to mistake for anything else and native silver is rare and usually grey. As said, crush it and pan it, if it's gold it will be way heavier than everything else.

 

[Hawkear]

Possibly any of the above. Could be one of many sulphide minerals. Can you advise what type of rock is normal bedrock for the area? Granite, Sandstone, Slate? and are there other known mineral deposits nearby? Location is always a good indicator.

 

[Andrewrgh123]

So the property is in macclesfield 5153

ok so there heaps of oxidised qwartz everywhere around property..ive had a sus around and the original house on the property has a fair bit of oxidised qwartz underneath the deck made as a wall back in the 1980 or something apparently its always been there since my sisters boyfriend was a little kid
well its what I think is oxidised qwartz
Is this worth metaldetecting to see if there's nuggets

 

[Andrewrgh123]

I've also just read this ??

 

[grubstake]

It's not impossible that there's gold near Macclesfield, as Jupiter Creek and Chapel Hill (known SA goldfields), aren't very far away, but unless there are signs of old gold mining (shafts, tailings heaps, etc), in the immediate vicinity of this property, it is highly unlikely.

Quartz by itself doesn't indicate much at all, as there's way more quartz without gold, than there is quartz with gold in it. Sorry.

 

[Hawkear]

Probably the best bet would be to try the State Museum to see if they can positively identify the nature of the minerals. Hopefully the government has funded them for an XRF analyser.
Gold often forms in quartz veins at the same time as many other minerals particularly the sulphides so wouldn't put gold out of the question even if it is not visible to the human eye in a hand specimen.
If you are handy with a gold pan, I'd also try a bit of loaming around the site to look for the tiniest of gold particles.

 

[Andrewrgh123]

im going use a minelab metal detecter tomorrow to find out whats the go with this dirt ill update what I find soon.