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Quartz,Mica ,Black Sand but no Gold
- Thread starter rex
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Dandbuilder
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I've seen lots of mica and black sand near granite. I"m no expert but it seems that granite is partly made up from mica and iron. Any granite boulders or stones nearby?
Dan
Dan
You will generally find that you need a presence of iron as well.A good indicator is the ground is usually a reddy brown. What coloured quartz, you want Quartz which has a high mineral content usually stained. Pure white quartz is not what you are looking for. I do own a GMT and have been successful with it. Remember if gold was easy to find it wouldnt be worth a cracker, I know people who have detected for years without finding any. The GMT is a great machine for going over old diggings, it is sensitive enought to find tiny pieces of gold that other detectors miss. good hunting,Some Pin head gold found with my GMT.
salmonriverhotrock
New member
I'm running a GM V/SAT (1995) and have been quite impressed with this 15 year old machine. We have hot and cold rocks, the black sand, mineralized soil, white and iron stained quartz but I have yet to hit on any gold, even on bed rock but know the river has Flour Gold in it. I have though hit on very small pieces of almost flattened lead I suspect is bird and maybe snake shot. We do get a few Chucker and Quail hunters crazy enough to hunt the steep terrain here in the canyon.
If your able to hit on some very small pieces of lead, you should also be able to hit on gold about the same size and is much more dense if it is there from what I gather. I've found some pretty small lead with the standard Long Scan coil but I'm now running the Goldmaster Shooter 4" X 6" coil.
Don't give up
. Buy a test piece of natural gold maybe .5 grain or up to 1 or 2 grain and learn what it is you are listening for where ever it is you are detecting. I also carry pieces of lead about that weight to check myself with.Rex, In Oz we have areas that are thousands of acres of quartz lying on top of the ground but there is NO gold there. My experience with black sand showed that the gold associated with it was very fine. A detector would not pick this type of gold up. However the detector may be used to locate black sand deposits so that other methods may be used to extract the gold IF it is there.
My suggestion to you is : If there are no old timer workings or prospects where you have all this quartz etc, then there is probably no gold there. Start by looking where the old timers found gold. Their lives depended on finding gold so they didn't waste time in non productive areas. It dosen't matter if others have been there before you as this is where we learn the signs of what to look for. Once you do find a little nugget, and it probably will be a little nugget, Then take a good look at where you dug it out from. Look at the soil or gravel type it is lying in, Look around you. Is it on a slope or a gully. If it is on a slope, there may be more above you. If it is in a gully take extreme care as they can be quite deep and easy to miss. Has it been dug out onto a heap by the old timers? If so check the heaps very carefully. But most of all be patient and confident that if there is one there for you, you are not going to miss it.
I reiterate... Go where the old timers found gold. That is your best chance.
The Cat
My suggestion to you is : If there are no old timer workings or prospects where you have all this quartz etc, then there is probably no gold there. Start by looking where the old timers found gold. Their lives depended on finding gold so they didn't waste time in non productive areas. It dosen't matter if others have been there before you as this is where we learn the signs of what to look for. Once you do find a little nugget, and it probably will be a little nugget, Then take a good look at where you dug it out from. Look at the soil or gravel type it is lying in, Look around you. Is it on a slope or a gully. If it is on a slope, there may be more above you. If it is in a gully take extreme care as they can be quite deep and easy to miss. Has it been dug out onto a heap by the old timers? If so check the heaps very carefully. But most of all be patient and confident that if there is one there for you, you are not going to miss it.
I reiterate... Go where the old timers found gold. That is your best chance.
The Cat
One answer to Neilo is yes there are very large white quartz rock all over along with all other colored kind of quartz.The place where this is is in Mason Texas which they call the gem capital.Im very new to prospecting so im at a loss plus the fact that im color blind.I see colors but what i see is not what you see for the most part.The place is very mineralized because lots of black sand and mica. To Dan ,,,,,the other place i look is in llano texas which we call the llano uplift. It is granite pushed up over many many miles and the llano river runs thru it with slab riverbottom for many many miles with granite boulders probably 50 tons that has washed in the river bed thru floods that has ran thru.Totally awsome to see.Ive found black sand there but others have found fine gold by panning.