Gold, Gold, Gold-In Any Form It’s Still Gold

Here is a bag of almost 5 grams of pure gold nuggets. Look closely and you’ll see just how small some of these are. Those tiny little black spots are gold. I took 2 photos after moving them around a little bit.

 

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The only gold I've ever got is the gold leaf tubes that come with coin lots on eBay.

I think I might pan for gold sometime. My grandparents live in Montana, so maybe next time I visit them I can try it.

 

I panned a little when I was younger on the middle fork of the Feather River Cali.
Only found some dust. My uncles had a claim on their property.

 

What area do they live in?

 

Not exactly sure. I believe its somewhere near Great Falls. But last time I went, I went to see some of the rocky mountains. Beautiful place. I even got a video of some black bears walking along the side of the road to the state park.

 

It is a beautiful area. The are sapphires to the west of the Missouri River around Helena but not if gold is area Great Falls. Southeast of Bozeman there’s gold, around Ennis. Great Falls is on the eastern side of the Rockies but then half of Montana is in the Rockies. Only about 2 hours away from Glacier National Park. If you’ve never been, it’s worth the visit. I saw my first Grizzly Bear there.

 

Tell us more about those black specs being gold.

 

They sure look like black specs but they are gold in hand. I can’t get any better photos with my phone. And gold comes in different colors.

 

I usually just smash them just to be sure.
If they are malleable its GTG.
Could be tarnished silver.
Either way precious metals.

I've found some people who sell gold nuggets dont refine the gold as good as they should, passing a little black sand as gold weight.
Worse is the ones that sell described all natural gold nuggets and they show up with quartz in them.

 

I have bought a few quartz specimens. They don't bother me. If properly cared for they get a premium.

 

Quartz and Gold seem to go well together. In the rock and mineral world they command a premium and they make a nice display.

 

I apologize for the picture quality as I am still earning my spurs as a photographer. Here are two photos of native gold from my mineral collection. Both are from Romania, where gold has been mined for 2 millennia. Both specimens are less than two inches across.

 

Specimens are cool, no problem with a larger piece.
When it gets a the little BB sized fragments that should be all gold.
That's my issue when I'm paying for gold weight.
Quartz rock I can find all day any day walking around in the desert.

 

I live in Eastern North Carolina. Recently, there was a "news" story about a man finding gold pieces in a creek that runs behind his house. Once he made it known what he had found, his neighbors would get on his property to do their own panning. It seems the creek came from a state park that adjoined his property and he can no longer pan.

 

I'm curious about the specific laws involved here. Was the creek itself on his property, or just bordering it? If it floods and damages his property, can he go against the State for compensation, or does the law only address good things that come out of the park onto his property?

 

That sucks. There are a few municipalities in the Denver metro that do not allow you to pan.

 

You know what they say, loose lips
sinks ships, in this case no more gold
should have kept this secret..LOL

 

I lived about 15 miles from the Feather River for most of my life. Never thought to pan there xD

 

Most of the time they were dredging. 15 to 20 foot holes down river from large boulders. I don't think that they ever ot very much gold. That area was worked over pretty well during the gold rush.