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Gold Prospecting
Gold localities & information
Icy Creek, Victoria and surrounds
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 667908" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Mica has a lustre that can resemble gold but generally varies according to the angle you view it presenting a glinting type aspect. The lustre of gold on the other hand will nor vary and presents as an even gold metallic lustre from whatever angle viewed.</p><p>Mica will also wash around in a gold pan as it is a very light material. Gold is not easily moved by swishing water around in a pan as it is 6 times heavier.</p><p>If it is heavy like gold, and it looks like gold, it is probably a duck, I mean gold.</p><p>Hard to make out how big the bit is but maybe pick it up with some tweezers and drop it onto a plastic surface from a foot or so and if it makes a solid sounding whack maybe a bit louder than expected, that is the sound we all love to hear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 667908, member: 4728"] Mica has a lustre that can resemble gold but generally varies according to the angle you view it presenting a glinting type aspect. The lustre of gold on the other hand will nor vary and presents as an even gold metallic lustre from whatever angle viewed. Mica will also wash around in a gold pan as it is a very light material. Gold is not easily moved by swishing water around in a pan as it is 6 times heavier. If it is heavy like gold, and it looks like gold, it is probably a duck, I mean gold. Hard to make out how big the bit is but maybe pick it up with some tweezers and drop it onto a plastic surface from a foot or so and if it makes a solid sounding whack maybe a bit louder than expected, that is the sound we all love to hear. [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
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