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    Help Identifying Gold-Like material.

    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.
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    Help Identifying Gold-Like material.

    Different Angle of them
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    Help Identifying Gold-Like material.

    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.
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    Help Identifying Gold-Like material.

    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...
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    Help Identifying Gold-Like material.

    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...
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