Gold Prospecting - Sampling and Searching For Banded Quartz - PYRITE and SULPHIDES

I've had gold fever . It came to my attention that gold is literally everywhere and its in places one one never consider .

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Awesome as always. Thanks for the video and good luck with your schooling.

some nice looking rocks. good video and photograpgy.

Thanks for this episode. You've given us a really good breakdown of this particular set of formations, which we can clock to memory for future investigation. Very clear descriptions and reasoning. I look forward to seeing more from you. This also confirms why we should look to reports of areas for likelihood and type of deposition of mineralisation. I'm in South West Australia and continuously looking for reason to be optimistic that something can be found that hasn't yet.....

Good ring. Thank you for this information.

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looks smoother from the glimpse that I got.... I think that might be something other than pyrite or galena or your typical sulfide....!

Good stuff man, I would love to go find some bigger pyrites like that.

Great video very informative keep it up cant wait to see if these samples have gold in them

Hello everyone, So I recently took a few of these samples to one of my geology instructors at the college and we looked at the surface with a microscope, specifically at the darker layering. He described the darker layers as a "metallic froth" which was made up of many sulphides and small tiny crystals of pyrite that could not be seen by regular eye sight. We spotted at least one shiny golden object but there is no way of telling what it was just by looking at it due to its small size. I am considering collecting more samples and having them assayed by a professional but I have yet to locate anyone around here that can do that. I still might try to do this myself once my crusher is finished so that I can try to do a fire assay. The veins look promising so far but looks and be deceiving.

May I suggest a sturdy framed backpack lined with cardboard to 1.protect bag 2.stop rocks jabbing you in the back over the bucket for your back health 3.Can carry more samples too and over time you will get fitter and stronger and take even more samples with ease, over bucket handle digging in more the heavier it gets. Greatly enjoyed the vid learnt heaps and would like to see the out come of the decided stuff and see what is in it.

Great video! Thanks for posting this, I really like the way you explain the geology of the quartz. The area you’re looking in looks a lot like the area I’m working in. Just curious as to what part of the country you’re at. I’m curious as to how your education is going at this point since this video was posted two years ago. Keep it up and good luck on finding gold

@3:17..... that looks a lot more interesting than most pyrites/sulfides I see in quarts around where I go in AZ. That looks like it could be a Telluride or calaverite I mean I could be wrong but dude look into that. its crystal structure looks different from pyrites, that looks really damn interesting.

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reflective stuff on the red quarts around 3;25 ish might be Molybdenite

You ought to buy a tough backpack like goruck with a lifetime warranty so when you have to hike and carry rocks you got a good bag. Carrying rocks in a bucket does wear ya down. One time hiking in the Grand Canyon my back pack slowly was tearing apart and I was slower then the other scouts. A leader carried my bag for a mile. Haha the next day he lifted it again and said what do you got in here rocks? I smiled. He looked in the bag and he’s like you’re carrying rocks haha. It was so funny. I ended up leaving half my rocks haha. It was so funny. A good backpack does make a huge difference I’ve found. Great video and good luck with college. You studying geology?

Cool video you should get yourself a Falcon MD metal detector for when you rock sampling I believe it can pick up even a Nano dot.

Your info is awesome, can you go into gold deposits along fractures ? cheers

Is pyrite heavy like gold? You can dry pan for gold. Jeff Williams has some videos explaining how to do it.