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This small meteorite fragment was labeled "Tunguska event - Russia 1908" when we acquired it from a rock shop.
Weight is approximately 0.9 gram, size 0.5 inch


Chosen 5/17/14 by Drex!

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I was all excited to post pics, and then I saw the detail Jason put into his, and I'm kicking myself now for not taking more. I too would be greatly pleased to find some ground with this kind of value in it. Similar to Jason, I was pretty skeptical about the initial appearance since there weren't many black sands. Admittedly, I was reticent to muddy up my panning bucket with the silt, but I went ahead and did it anyway since that's where I keep all my previously washed dirt.

I used 3 classifiers at around 100, 50 and 20, and I was somewhat frustrated that the gold tended to float far more than I'm used to. At all class levels (except the picker which I found sitting in the classifier screen), particularly when tapping, the water picked gold up and floated it down. I backed off using the tap method which took longer, but the floating decreased substantially.

I already took one of the outer package, so here are the contents with my panning partner in the background. I did both bags at once, so amount in each bag is confounded:



Unfortunately I didn't get any pics in process, but here's what I found at the end including the sparklies:




Just the gold (I don't have a good camera, or a need for one frankly, so nothing macro):




As for the sparklies....I hate to admit I only have a guess from looking at pics. I tried weighing them, but the kitchen scale I have doesn't have the resolution to do the rough specific gravity calculation. So Amazon got some of my money today for a scale so I can check these things out, and actually weigh the gold I've collected. This is prompting me to learn quite a bit more about mineral ID....even broke out my mineral book last night to do some reading!







Thanks a million D&D! This was fun :)