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Silver Prospecting, Metal Detecting and visual recognition of ores |
 Feb 6 2011, 01:11 PM
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 Rock Bar!  Group: Members Posts: 613 Joined: 16-October 08 From: Central Colorado Member No.: 6,813  |
Native silver can be found by using a metal detector as it will respond just like a silver coin target. It is best to look in washes and streams downhill from high grade silver deposits.
In Colorado, most of the silver is held in mineral matrix that detectors fail to respond to. Here is an example of a 781.5 gram "nugget" of silver, lead, zinc and gold that I picked up from a small creek. The metal detector passed right over it but I saw the bright reflection in the sunlight and picked it out of the gravels.
It took a couple of days of searching but I eventually found the lode source. I staked the large quartz vein that was completely buried under broken country rock less than 1/4 mile away from the stream site! Keep your eyes on the ground when you're working with detectors. They can miss pretty big objects if they are in the native mineral rock. ASTROBLEME -------------------- Annual Dues Paying Member Since 2008
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Feb 6 2011, 02:51 PM
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 Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 118 Joined: 22-December 10 From: USA Member No.: 7,480 |
Astro,
Well done! DD |
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Feb 18 2011, 11:40 AM
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 Master Mucker! Group: Admin Posts: 4,149 Joined: 7-October 03 From: Colorado Member No.: 3 |
Sweet find Astrobleme!!
 And awesome news on your staking! Best of luck with it in the future too, we all hope it plays out very well.  Keep us all posted when possible on progress.CP -------------------- CP-Owner/Administrator
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Oct 30 2011, 12:57 PM
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Observer Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 30-October 11 Member No.: 33,357 |
I would love to hear an update on this and what you have done with it or the ore. I have just recently came into somewhat of a simular situation.
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Nov 6 2011, 05:40 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 26-October 11 Member No.: 33,029 |
hey can you pick out those areas on this silver sample with a needle place that gold looking stuff on a piece of white copy paper and does it make a gold streak??? just wondering cuz i see the same stuff in my rock samples posted here too,, thanks miner49er
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