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aequitas1916
post Jan 8 2018, 07:04 PM
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Hello everyone,

I recently started panning for gold as a hobby. I eventually plan to try prospecting somewheres where gold can actually be found (WI gold is... laughable), but I figure I can hone my panning skills on flour gold in the meantime. Being that there's not much of interest in my part of the state, mineral wise, and because I didn't pay much attention in my earth science class 20 years ago, I'm not very well equipped to identify anything that isn't yellow and shiny. Though I hope to change that.

Anyway, to my point - I received some paydirt from AZ for Christmas. Besides containing an amount of gold I could only dream of finding near home, it also contained a few other things of interest...

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Now, as I said, I'm far from competent in mineral identification. And, I don't imagine these are particularly valuable. But, I kinda like them, and would like to know what they are exactly. I think the first one looks like jade (based on no evidence, other than I'd call that color jade). Maybe the small greenish/yellow ones are peridot (although how these would get into paydirt concentrates, I'm not sure)? The last one seems like it might be quartz.

Any opinions? Thanks in advance for allowing me to join the community, and for your expertise.
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