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Metal Detecting for Gold
Hot rocks. Worth keeping and crushing?
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<blockquote data-quote="mbasko" data-source="post: 413734" data-attributes="member: 4485"><p>Sounds more like a piece of throwaway gold bearing reef not what most would call a "hotrock" as such? Nice find though & well worth taking home to crush up :Y: </p><p>Mate of mine had also found a large lump of quartz that gave a faint signal & had it in his garden. He got several grams out of it to from memory & I've found a heap of fist sized or bigger rocks + quartz that had signals with no visible gold that I've had various yields from but I never thought to classify them in with "hotrocks". Have seen good gold come out of large lumps of conglomerate too.</p><p>Maybe I've got a different interpretation of what a hotrock is? I'd more class then as nuisance or problematic rocks known to an area (commonly ironstone can cause problems & in some areas basalts & so on). Some hotrocks can contain gold & I've found a lot of ironstone/gold speccis so never dismiss them entirely. I wouldn't class a football sized piece of rock a hotrock unless the area I was detecting had a common occurrence of them causing nuisance signals. Certainly a one off find like that wouldn't come under hotrocks but I might be wrong in my thinking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mbasko, post: 413734, member: 4485"] Sounds more like a piece of throwaway gold bearing reef not what most would call a "hotrock" as such? Nice find though & well worth taking home to crush up :Y: Mate of mine had also found a large lump of quartz that gave a faint signal & had it in his garden. He got several grams out of it to from memory & I've found a heap of fist sized or bigger rocks + quartz that had signals with no visible gold that I've had various yields from but I never thought to classify them in with "hotrocks". Have seen good gold come out of large lumps of conglomerate too. Maybe I've got a different interpretation of what a hotrock is? I'd more class then as nuisance or problematic rocks known to an area (commonly ironstone can cause problems & in some areas basalts & so on). Some hotrocks can contain gold & I've found a lot of ironstone/gold speccis so never dismiss them entirely. I wouldn't class a football sized piece of rock a hotrock unless the area I was detecting had a common occurrence of them causing nuisance signals. Certainly a one off find like that wouldn't come under hotrocks but I might be wrong in my thinking. [/QUOTE]
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