Just Having a "Crack"

Hello all. This morning, I was running some extremely hard stone that I had collected on a field trip recently, through my little jaw crusher. As it wasn't breaking very well and making a screaching popping sort of noise I was giving it a helping hand with a Hammer and Gad. I gave one bit of particularly porous quartz a wack and broke it in half so I pulled it out of the crusher for a quick check and thought I could see some Copper Pyrites, so I gave it a quick rinse and had a look with the hand lens......
Here's a closer look with a the USB Mircoscope

The Gold is intertwined with the Arsenopyrite crystals. I've not come across gold actually within the pyrite cyrstals before. So the day wasnt a complete waste of time.

Beautiful to see mate , very nice :Y:
Amazing where gold can appear.

Love the pics, small or large I wish I could find some specimen gold. :Y:

id be happy with that too

Awesome Jethro :Y: hope you've got heaps more to work with

Thanks for the likes folks,

RM outback said:

hope you've got heaps more to work with

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Ive got about 10 kgs of ore out of the reef as that was all I could carry back down the hill, So far that was the only free gold I could see in the rock prior to crushing. Its a long hard slog up the old barrow track to the mine and would take several trips to bring down 100kg unless I spent a week with the chainsaw and brushcutter clearing the logs, sapplings etc.

Rusty_G said:

small or large I wish I could find some specimen gold. thumbsup

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I'd rater have Mad Tunas specimen. I wonder if he'll swap :lol:

Have you got a detector Jethro? Is it worth running a detector over each bit to see if it is worth carrying out or is that what you are already doing?

that is very nice Jethro

Araluen

Northeast said:

Have you got a detector Jethro? Is it worth running a detector over each bit to see if it is worth carrying out or is that what you are already doing?

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No I didnt take a detector as I was loaded up with Hardhat, Light, pick, Bucket. gad.GPS, water Milwalkee leafblower/ventilator, Jumper day pack. Dog, camera. The lil dog reminded me that someone is always doing it harder than myself And to keep pressing onwards.
A Couple of Pics of the area that Im prospecting in. I have previously posted these elsewhere.
The View from about halfway up the barrow track.


The Lode from where the ore came from.

i.e. You looked just like your avatar :lol:

I'll keep a look out for a cheap donkey, pony, big goat, alpaca for you

Nice looking hole you've found. Good luck with it. Have you got a detector you could take up?

Hi Jethro,
great looking stone you have there!
thanks for the detailed pictures too: pretty coarse gold and sulphides.
I spent today looking for specimens with the SDC but with no joy.
keep up the good work: you and the pooch will get fit if nothing else!
cheers
Drystone

Northeast said:

Nice looking hole you've found. Good luck with it. Have you got a detector you could take up?

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Only an old tesoro dingo, Not really worth it. I have been toying with the idea of buying another dedicated gold machine though.

jethro said:

Northeast said:

Have you got a detector Jethro? Is it worth running a detector over each bit to see if it is worth carrying out or is that what you are already doing?

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No I didnt take a detector as I was loaded up with Hardhat, Light, pick, Bucket. gad.GPS, water Milwalkee leafblower/ventilator, Jumper day pack. Dog, camera. The lil dog reminded me that someone is always doing it harder than myself And to keep pressing onwards.
A Couple of Pics of the area that Im prospecting in. I have previously posted these elsewhere.
The View from about halfway up the barrow track.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1297/1500282778_p1040170.jpg

The Lode from where the ore came from.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1297/1500283041_p1040159.jpg

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very interesting :Y:

I'm not sure about a Tesoro Dingo's capabilities but will a Gold Monster be of any use to you?

I know if I found something like you have (and had the balls to go in there :/ ) I'd be scanning the lumps of rock and only carrying out the bits that 'pinged'.

Nugget has a pretty cheap GM for sale in the classifieds at the moment.