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.
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.
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...
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...