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  Jun 30 2010, 09:19 PM
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 Diggin' In!  Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 11-June 10 From: 38.6964, -104.7012 Member No.: 7,265  |
So I classified my concentrates down to a par above flour gold, which we have a lot of here in Colorado. I still have a fine brown talcum clay powder material that seems to be as fine or finer than flour gold. The darn stuff is sticky and I can't see squat barely when I run my desert fox or even when I hand pan. Any advice would be much appreciated and thanks to all the help with my other posts.
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Jun 30 2010, 10:09 PM
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 Shovel Buster! Group: Members Posts: 206 Joined: 19-May 10 From: Longmont, Colorado Member No.: 7,248 |
QUOTE (rubinscube @ Jun 30 2010, 10:19 PM)  So I classified my concentrates down to a par above flour gold, which we have a lot of here in Colorado. I still have a fine brown talcum clay powder material that seems to be as fine or finer than flour gold. The darn stuff is sticky and I can't see squat barely when I run my desert fox or even when I hand pan. Any advice would be much appreciated and thanks to all the help with my other posts. I think I've encountered the same stuff. Does it almost have a pale yellow tint to it? I've gotten some mega super small pale yellow/blonde stuff in my Desert Fox cup that doesn't act like gold at all except it somehow managed to swim upstream and jump into the cup along with some black sand and flour gold. It's real hard to get out of the pan. I looked at some of it under a microscope and it's 95% shards of some sort of glass like material but it looks like there is also some microscopic gold scattered around along with some other interesting looking microscopic "nuggets". A spec of flour gold is huge compared to the material in this stuff. I'm going to keep all I find until I learn what to do with it. Boogie -------------------- peto metallum honestus
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Jun 30 2010, 10:43 PM
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Diggin' In! Group: Members Posts: 27 Joined: 11-June 10 From: 38.6964, -104.7012 Member No.: 7,265 |
QUOTE (Boogie @ Jun 30 2010, 11:09 PM) I think I've encountered the same stuff. Does it almost have a pale yellow tint to it? I've gotten some mega super small pale yellow/blonde stuff in my Desert Fox cup that doesn't act like gold at all except it somehow managed to swim upstream and jump into the cup along with some black sand and flour gold. It's real hard to get out of the pan. I looked at some of it under a microscope and it's 95% shards of some sort of glass like material but it looks like there is also some microscopic gold scattered around along with some other interesting looking microscopic "nuggets". A spec of flour gold is huge compared to the material in this stuff. I'm going to keep all I find until I learn what to do with it. Boogie your clay sounds simalar to mine, mine has the color of coffee. maybe I will save it also and run it through a tumbler with Hg when I am done |
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rubinscube I have classified, now what about that darn clay? Jun 30 2010, 09:19 PM
ColoradoProspector You also might think along the lines of weights wh... Jul 2 2010, 11:46 AM
Boogie QUOTE (ColoradoProspector @ Jul 2 2010, 12... Jul 3 2010, 09:42 PM Coalbunny Go to your local hardware store and buy a 5 gallon... Jul 3 2010, 02:01 AM Boogie I just discovered that you can hold an iphone up t... Jul 10 2010, 06:19 PM ColoradoProspector Hey Boogie,
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