south fork Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I dig them up and give em a quick look and toss. My son carried some home so we could clean them up Better and crap there full of gold. Now we can go back out to those old seam deposits And try to find what we already tossed. We were talking about how much gold could be in those old dumps That the early miners missed with no metal detector technology. I will post some photos after I clean these samples. They were dark red Iron stained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south fork Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 I placed some of the samples in phosphoric acid solution of about 10-20% and quartz is starting to show with little stringers/veins of gold. they have been soaking for about three hours now. This samples were reddish black with no quartz showing. But made the detectors sing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south fork Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Heres one piece after 5 hours in solution 3plus grams of quartz and gold. Can you see the fly spec of gold in the pan theres a lot of flour gold in the solution from the other sample but has less gold showing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Those are really nice looking hot rocks South Fork! I hope your patch is loaded with those pesky suckers.Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugget Shooter Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Now there is a pleasant surprise for sure. I worked a mine dump full of specimens like that here in Arizona years ago and took home 5 gallon buckets full of them. Cleaned them up real nice and made a pretty penny I did...Have fun.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSalt Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Heres one piece after 5 hours in solution 3plus grams of quartz and gold. Can you see the fly spec of gold in the pan theres a lot of flour gold in the solution from the other sample but has less gold showing.What color where they before you cleaned them up? Most iron hot rocks I come across are black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
south fork Posted February 5, 2011 Author Share Posted February 5, 2011 What color where they before you cleaned them up? Most iron hot rocks I come across are black. They were brown/black with a little reddish oxidized material around the out side. After they were in the phosphoric for a couple of hours quartz started showing with a gray/black grainy material That slowly dissolved leaving quartz and gold showing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joefig1 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Go back and get some more of them dang hot rocksI cleaned some hot rocks that I brought home nope still hot rocks :shrug: Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xt18000 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Makes you wonder how much gold gets throwed away that way ? This is a " hot rock " that I picked out of my sluice box sometime back when we was doing a cleanup. Looks like just a plane old rock but has a little gold streak showing and it has more weight to it than a rock this size should have. Maybe Cinnabar, its a deep dull red with fine grain. Came out of the Kalamath River. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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