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G'day all,

I found an old gold mine and broke apart some different rocks from the mullock. This is what came out in the pan, it is magnetic. Can anyone help ID this?

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It was awhile back but i remember getting excited as they started to show in the pan , then puzzled to what they could be :/ then i noticed flaring and grinder paterns on one bit :rolleyes: , cant say i ever found anymore it seems like i knocked them all loose in the first crushing , goes to show i should have ground the cuts up neat before welding it together :lol:
 
looks like bits off your dolly bar to me very common to find when bashing up quartz as steel is 6 and quartz or hard slate is 7 on the hardness scale from 1 to 10 diamond being the hardest thing know is 10 here's a question for you how do you cut a diamond ?
 
Trick question, Diamonds are not cut they are ground.

I was excited too, I thought it could be Silver. I have always chased alluvial Gold. This is my first attempt at hard mining as I am always finding old Chinese mullock up here in NT. Old 95' assay reports for that mullock heap were 7oz/t but I found no free gold. Do you believe it is worth trying to bake it?
 

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