Thats what i do. Until i make a dolly potStru said:wrap it in an old dish cloth or towel then hammer on concrete
ben2363 said:do you guys think its worth crushing?
found these near Daylesford on the weekend.
only reason I'm asking is I don't have a dolly pot to crush so don't want to spend hours with a hammer if you guys don't think its worth it.
Cheers
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Hunting the yellow said:crush all 3 and especially the middle one that shows cavities and slightly laminated also not all fine gold can be detected with a metal detector I have often found this to be the case sometimes you'll find in the stone a lot of fine flour size gold that the detector won't pick up
goldierocks said:Wouldn't bother unless visible gold or responds to detector. Banging on concrete or wrappped in a towel a bit of a waste of time as quartz is much harder than concrete and you soon get holes in your towel. Better to get someone to make you one up out of pipe, but you need a smooth internal base that does not catch gold in the joint etc..
jethro said:I just finished putting 11kg of quartz through My Rock squashing n washing plant. got a nice tail of gold in the dish from a 250gram sample And I havent been able to see any gold in the rock yet. Ive got about 40kg to process. I would definetly crush all of those but dolly pots are hard work.
Chuck it all in a nice hot fire outdoors and when its a dull red drop it in a bucket of water this will soften it up. dont breath the smoke as it could be toxic from the arsenopyrites / pyrites in the rock.
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