Gold Prospecting - Sampling and Searching For Banded Quartz - PYRITE and SULPHIDES

[@Thrivelife669]

I've had gold fever . It came to my attention that gold is literally everywhere and its in places one one never consider .

[@jacksprat9972]

some nice looking rocks. good video and photograpgy.

[@sterling1steve]

Thanks for this episode. You've given us a really good breakdown of this particular set of formations, which we can clock to memory for future investigation. Very clear descriptions and reasoning. I look forward to seeing more from you. This also confirms why we should look to reports of areas for likelihood and type of deposition of mineralisation. I'm in South West Australia and continuously looking for reason to be optimistic that something can be found that hasn't yet.....

[@tomcook2311]

Awesome as always. Thanks for the video and good luck with your schooling.

[@GeoForge]

Thank you

[@GeoForge]

Hello everyone, So I recently took a few of these samples to one of my geology instructors at the college and we looked at the surface with a microscope, specifically at the darker layering. He described the darker layers as a "metallic froth" which was made up of many sulphides and small tiny crystals of pyrite that could not be seen by regular eye sight. We spotted at least one shiny golden object but there is no way of telling what it was just by looking at it due to its small size. I am considering collecting more samples and having them assayed by a professional but I have yet to locate anyone around here that can do that. I still might try to do this myself once my crusher is finished so that I can try to do a fire assay. The veins look promising so far but looks and be deceiving.

[@abbasal-hamdanitrq5307]

Good ring. Thank you for this information.

[@alexnutu1125]

looks smoother from the glimpse that I got.... I think that might be something other than pyrite or galena or your typical sulfide....!

[@au_gmentedreality]

I admire your education choice. Geology (volcano) in particular was an interest. Now I'm an AU addict, so it all fits together. Subbed yo! Looking awesome

[@askedhachker5389]

Pyrite 💎👍

[@bcurrie9511]

May I suggest a sturdy framed backpack lined with cardboard to 1.protect bag 2.stop rocks jabbing you in the back over the bucket for your back health 3.Can carry more samples too and over time you will get fitter and stronger and take even more samples with ease, over bucket handle digging in more the heavier it gets. Greatly enjoyed the vid learnt heaps and would like to see the out come of the decided stuff and see what is in it.

[@GeoForge]

I bought myself a nice hunting pack and I put a large sack into it that way the rocks and some of my tools don't dirty up the pack and keep it nice.

[@alexnutu1125]

@3:17..... that looks a lot more interesting than most pyrites/sulfides I see in quarts around where I go in AZ. That looks like it could be a Telluride or calaverite I mean I could be wrong but dude look into that. its crystal structure looks different from pyrites, that looks really damn interesting.

[@GeoForge]

Now you have me curious. I looked at a few of my samples again, pyrite has an isometric crystal system and calaverite has a monoclinic crystal system. I've never heard of the Telluride mineral group, which includes calaverite and other minerals with some having isometric crystal systems. Its difficult to tell just by looking at it for me but I see what you are seeing when comparing images and information from online. I have been wanting to get the samples tested but now, I might scrape off some of the brass minerals (pyrite/calaverite) and take it into the lab and do x-ray diffraction on the sample. This is the best way I can think of to figure out for sure what it is. Thank you for pointing this out.

[@foxmulder7616]

​@@GeoForgesend it in to an assayer, to do a fire assay for 30$, mail it to them and they'll send you the results.

[@matthewdistefano2466]

Great video very informative keep it up cant wait to see if these samples have gold in them

[@GeoForge]

Thank you, hopefully we will find out how much gold, if any, is in these rocks once the rock crusher is finished.

[@vegaslovebug]

I could use 895 more subscribers before I turn 70 at the end of this year! Thank you so much! VegasLoveBug

[@CurrentlyRockhounding]

Good stuff man, I would love to go find some bigger pyrites like that.

[@alexnutu1125]

reflective stuff on the red quarts around 3;25 ish might be Molybdenite

[@JohnsonMiningCompany]

Great video! Thanks for posting this, I really like the way you explain the geology of the quartz. The area you’re looking in looks a lot like the area I’m working in. Just curious as to what part of the country you’re at. I’m curious as to how your education is going at this point since this video was posted two years ago. Keep it up and good luck on finding gold

[@GeoForge]

I do most of my prospecting and rockhounding in the pacific northwest around Washington and Idaho. I'm currently in Kansas working on my masters in volcanology. I just started my first year and I'm already very busy. I have little time to make new videos and there are no mountains to explore. However, they do have lots of fossils around and I heard there are some caves to be explored. Glad you liked the video.

[@IrishAndy001]

Cool video you should get yourself a Falcon MD metal detector for when you rock sampling I believe it can pick up even a Nano dot.

[@GeoForge]

I do have a goldbug 2 metal detector. I am still learning how to use it but it seems to do well.

[@IrishAndy001]

@@GeoForge. I want to get one of them myself as I've the original goldbug model but it's not as good as the goldbug2 but the Falcon MD is a tiny handheld metal detector I believe it is sensitive enough to pickup a microdot of gold in a rock. Keep up the good fieldwork you have enough passion in you for what you do and soon enough all your hard will repay you tenfold.

[@koltoncrane3099]

You ought to buy a tough backpack like goruck with a lifetime warranty so when you have to hike and carry rocks you got a good bag. Carrying rocks in a bucket does wear ya down. One time hiking in the Grand Canyon my back pack slowly was tearing apart and I was slower then the other scouts. A leader carried my bag for a mile. Haha the next day he lifted it again and said what do you got in here rocks? I smiled. He looked in the bag and he’s like you’re carrying rocks haha. It was so funny. I ended up leaving half my rocks haha. It was so funny. A good backpack does make a huge difference I’ve found. Great video and good luck with college. You studying geology?

[@GeoForge]

I am studying geology and I'm preparing and needing to buy supplies for my geology field camp class. One of the things I will be needing is a good backpack to carry supplies around but I also want something that is good for carrying rocks when prospecting. So your comment came at a good time haha. I will have to look into the packs like goruck. Is there a particular one you would recommend? Speaking of the Grand Canyon, I will be decently close to it when I'm at field camp but I don't think we will be going to it. Funny story too lol. Thanks

[@foxmulder7616]

​@@GeoForgeif your strapped for cash get an Alice pack, or any external frame pack, with a waist band.

[@dodgygoose3054]

Your info is awesome, can you go into gold deposits along fractures ? cheers

[@GeoForge]

Thank you. What do you mean gold deposits along fractures? Like placer gold that falls into fractures?

[@dodgygoose3054]

@@GeoForge Gold fluids, that under geological pressure forced along faults/fractures then concentrated when cooled through contact with ground water or evaporation, as I'm just learning what type of rock/minerals am I looking for likely high gold load deposits? that would be really helpful cheers.

[@sackvongsa3160]

Hello.geoforce that is good looking area.should correct iron oxide rocks.dark brown scans on the edges of the quartz.gold ride the iron horse.

[@nikkovellios]

The red crystals could be murcury.

[@GeoForge]

It is just red oxidation on the quartz crystals.

[@roseannecarratkinson4271]

Is pyrite heavy like gold? You can dry pan for gold. Jeff Williams has some videos explaining how to do it.

[@GeoForge]

I've seen that video and I enjoy watching him work his mine. Pyrite is much lighter than gold when it comes to density. Pyrite has a density of about 5 grams per mL and gold is 19.3 grams per mL

[@emilio3769]

I'd like to no how much gold you get out of it?? Because I no where to also find them types of pyrite with layered quartz.

[@GeoForge]

I would like to know myself. I have yet to have these samples tested.

[@tarbabyify]

Question.. so pyrite is an indicator of other minerals? Such as gold and what else?

[@GeoForge]

Pyrite and other minerals can be an indicator for gold and such but that does not mean it will have any. It comes down to chemistry of the fluids when they were forming and more. Pyrite is a sulfide mineral and its type is determined by the metal found in its chemistry. Pyrite contains iron and galena contains lead for example. Other metals such as gold can be mixed in. Silver can also be found in galena in some places of the world.

[@Robbin-e1z]

I want to start looking but got a ? Im in pa by Hazelton pa can you find gold in that area???? Anyone know please feel free to comment?

[@waynelacroix8870]

What country and or state are you in. There are some great youtuber that do fire assay if you are inclined to reach out to them. Not far from where I live in southern California is a silver mine and the owner gathered 100 lbs of galina and a youtuber in Washington State smelted it out for him and yielded 3 oz from 100 lbs of ore.

[@GeoForge]

I'm from Idaho and I would be interested in sending off samples to a professional that knows what they are doing. What the channel name?

[@РечноеЗолото]

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[@GeoForge]

Thanks for watching and I'm glad your enjoying the videos! I hope to make some more soon when I have available time.

[@steveaxt1303]

😊😊😊

[@temptorsent]

For some good information on prospecting and sampling hard rock, see Keith Bowen's channel "Hard Rock University"

[@GeoForge]

I will check out his videos, thank you.

[@askedhachker5389]

Pyrite mining gold

[@foxmulder7616]

If your found something, hope you staked a claim, and filed your paperwork properly with the blm/county! Unless your back East then, I don't think you even can unless you're in Florida etc..a select few states.