Pictures Of Rocks With Gold In Them

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Pictures of rocks with gold in them. Gold encased in quartz rock also known as gold specimens are highly sought after by collectors and prospectors. Gold is most often found in quartz rock. Quartz may be found as small stones in river beds or in large seams in hillsides. Take a look at this short video post it shows you more about gold and its tracers other rocks and minerals associated with gold especially dark red black blue stained tertiary quartzite.

When quartz is found in gold bearings areas it is possible that gold will be found as well. They can be hard to find but using the proper equipment and tactics it is possible to find beautiful specimens. Gold and silver are obtained from a variety of ores. Most people think of nuggets and such but the truth is that very little comes from nuggets nearly all newly mined gold comes from ores mined from the natural hard rocks that contain gold in tiny even microscopic particles.

The white color of quartz makes it easy to spot in many environments. Since pyrites and gold are often from related deposits pyrites form some of the best gold tracers in the creek bed.