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Just Having a "Crack"
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<blockquote data-quote="jethro" data-source="post: 346054" data-attributes="member: 1297"><p>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......<img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1297/1500194649_p1040189.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p>Here's a closer look with a the USB Mircoscope</p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1297/1500195352_17716142910535.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jethro, post: 346054, member: 1297"] 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......[img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1297/1500194649_p1040189.jpg[/img] Here's a closer look with a the USB Mircoscope [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1297/1500195352_17716142910535.jpg[/img] 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. [/QUOTE]
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