Help Identifying Gold-Like material.

[Bent2Bits]

Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. I have recently moved from Vic to QLD and have been visiting the Warwick fields to continue my passion for finding gold. I have recently purchased a Cobbers Crusher and have been running rock through it. I have found some flakes that look like gold, but definitely different from the gold I have found in the area.
Attached is a picture of it in my sieve and how it sits, it rises to the top when I shake the sieve. Also, a picture of it beside some gold pieces I have found in the same area. In water it is definitely lighter and kind of "float" sinks.
I have poked it with a tiny screwdriver and it bends around the point, but doesn't really hold its shape. I thought maybe the crusher is pounding silica dust into the gold it and "diluting" it or maybe some kind of gold/copper alloy.

At a loss nonetheless, thought I'd reach out here and ask as I am finding a fair bit of it.

Cheers for any info,
Bent2bits

 

[grubstake]

At a loss nonetheless, thought I'd reach out here and ask as I am finding a fair bit of it.

I reckon it'll just turn out to be valueless pyrites, mate. We get asked about it regularly:
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/threads/new-to-the-forum-and-to-gold.41850/#post-674393

 

[Bent2Bits]

I reckon it'll just turn out to be valueless pyrites, mate. We get asked about it regularly:
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/threads/new-to-the-forum-and-to-gold.41850/#post-674393

Thanks for commenting Defs doesn't act like Pyrite, bends under pressure, and color is stable bright orange yellow regardless of angle or lighting. Looks like a metal under 30X loupe, but I don't know of any other metal that is this orange/yellow. Might have to try an acid test on a piece of it.

 

[grubstake]

Is this the stuff that you're talking about in that crushed sample above?

 

[Bent2Bits]

Is this the stuff that you're talking about in that crushed sample above?
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Just the bright orange ones, the first pic you have there is grass or a stick or something. But the ones in the glass jar are bent by my screwdriver, they were flat like those flakes in the sieve when I recovered them.

 

[Bent2Bits]

Different Angle of them

 

[XLOOX]

If they dont dissolve in brick acid or melt when you put a butane flame on them ( jet cigarette lighter) I would say gold. If it has been beaten wafer thin like gold leaf then it will float-sink if it gets any oil on it

 

[Bent2Bits]

Well, this is embarrassing. Butane flame incinerated the items and smelled funny.... Turns out the shackles in my crusher come with a yellow coating that chip off and get mixed with the powdered rock and create the items in question. Sorry bout that folks.