Gold vs Pyrite - Telling The Difference in The Field - Gold Mining Equipment
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- Gold vs Pyrite - Telling The Difference in The Field - Gold Mining Equipment
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Just finishing up that decomposing granite I bought at the landscaping store. There is quite a bit of pyrite in it, but there is a little fine gold and small chunky flakes. In this film I am showing how to tell the difference between real gold and fools gold. As you can see in this video, pyrite acts different than gold in a pan.
It also has a different sheen in the sun and it is a lot more brittle than gold. It is important to remember that finding pyrite is not a bad thing. You find gold where you find black sands and iron pyrite and, like Tom Massie said in the most recent Gold Fever episode I watched, pyrite often has some very low quality gold in it (like 40% or less gold).
So, it is okay to hang onto it with your black sands. You can eventually crush it and use heat and/or chemicals to extract it. If you get enough, it might make it worth the effort to extract. I know guys with tubs of iron sands and pyrite they are keeping to process later on.
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I really like your video, it is one of the best I have seen. I am new to all this and I have been trying to learn how to tell if its real gold or pyrite. I have seen several other videos and your is by far the best. THANK YOU ! I really appreciate you taking the time to make these videos.
Dawn Bork Thank YOU and thanks for watching!
this was an awesome video... investing lots of time in my new hobby I learned a lot. I'm just a novice, but I'm finding gold thanks to you!!!
Grandpa way back, when I was 10 years old, showed me using gold flakes and small nuggets of gold mixed in with iron pyrite particles and small pieces of iron pyrite that a quick separation was possible by using a magnet. Iron pyrite is magnetic and gold is not. So a simple toy magnet was always handy to do a quick check of the pan.
Pyrite sparkles in the light, gold sheens in all directions of the light. Good video.
This is one of the most beneficial videos I've seen. Thank you very much!
Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
Awesome video, thanks alot. Newer miner and have found pyrite, noticed it behaved different in the pan as well. Thanks alot!
The best explanation I've seen... Excellent Job. It is a pitty I only find pyrite and mica on my region....
Thanks for the educational video.I have always wondered how to tell the difference between pyrite and gold.
I have seen tons of videos and no one shows like yours tank you for sharing
Very interesting video. Always wondered how to really tell the difference. Thanks for the information.
as long as you use soap in the cleanup, we've had flood gold so fine it clumps and floats in a pan on surface tension.
Wow learnt a lot in ten minutes ! Thanks for the info . Own 200 acres with mineral rights and it’s located In Sudbury Ontario . 10 km from falcon Bridge Mine in Sudbury Ontario . City of The big Nickle . Once I sell my business I’m planning on moving back home and prospecting that land . Sell dirt , crushed rock and hope fully luck out with some gold . Tons of pyrite , creeks just shine with it and mountains . Where there pyrite there’s gold ! Cheers guys very motivating . Keep it up
Very thorough video. Good explanations.
this is a great vid good work yall.
This reminds me of an episode of Little House on the Prairie where Laura and a friend thought they found gold in a creek. They spent their entire summer vacation panning for gold from morning till night, only to be told by the banker at the very end that they had pyrite.
Oh yeah this was sooo me, now I kinda lost the motivation
Appreciate it, thank you for the video! Good luck out there 👍
Thank you my friend. Ive been wrestling pyrite out of the yard creek. I feel a bit foolish, but I had to try.
Great demo ! Thanks...
This really helped me thank you!
Thank you so so much for this video at last someone show the tricks of the trade:-)
Gold Buddy is NICE Smart Design
I learned that from a prospector in Arizona...something I think you kind of realize when you are around gold enough, but I never thought of it really as a prospecting technique.
Nice information video. Thanks for sharing. Happy Prospecting folks. Also, people pay attention to what's going on behind scenes too...DHS (department of homeland security) has purchased nearly 2 BILLION rounds of ammo, Armored Tanks, and Auto Weapons of War--They are refusing to answer as to why when asked. Also has paper targets by LET INC that looked like Armed Americans. They are a Domestic Department--O's citizen army? Many retired high ranking military putting out alerts.Take care.
excellent, and perfect video. this is very valuable information, and very much appreciated, thank you very much!
Thanks, glad I could help! Thanks for watching and thanks for the comment!
nice graphical explanations ~ thanks
Very good information thanks
Good video for those who don't know the difference. Another way to tell, small pyrite will flip and flutter in the pan. One side will look gold like, the other side will be dark. The bigger chunks are a dead giveaway.
very good information, Thanks
The rules are usually pretty well spelled out...some a little less clear than others. But, public lands usually have a rule about prospecting, gem collecting, metal detecting, etc. I have some links at the bottom of our website for many resources. Regardless of how clear or not clear the rules are, the fact is that public lands are for public use and typically there is some level of prospecting you can achieve within a close distance. Stand for your rights!
very informative! Thanks!
very interesting !! thank you
I bought a black pan 3 hours ago at sportsman warehouse I love it
Tnx, appreciate u sharing knowledge. Good luck
Your mats are a great type for trapping fine gold. So good that to really get all the gold out of them you need to let they dry completly the beat them like you would a carpet (which is what they are) over a piece of large cardboard on your garage floor, the pan what comes out. Surprising how much almost micro fine gold they will trap. Happy mining.
Yeah I am sure. I figured we would use it for several years and burn it then pan the ashes. I hear that works well too. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
Excellent knowledge thank you so much
Very helpful, thank you.
Thanks for the video. After watching I'm pretty sure my 13 year old nephew and I found pyrite this weekend rather than gold......bummer. Oh well, we sure had fun! And now we're ready to head back to the river with our new knowledge and look for the real stuff!
Where there’s pyrite there is a likelihood of gold being present too! Try putting a magnet to it iron pyrite will stick to the magnet gold wont
Done
I toured through a working gold mine in Jamestown, CA. The guy taking me through said, "You know where the real gold is here? Down in the gift shop." ;-)
Which one? I frequent Jamestown often
Hi HPP, Thanks for the informative vid, I'm sure people have leant from this. Dennis
I wonder - when gold bearing pyrite rusts does it leave behind pannable gold dust or just microscopic particles.
Thanks for the info. Helped a lot
Glad it helped. Good luck out there.
vary good tips... thanks
nice video handsome man!!!! keep it up!!
thank you very much for this video
Thanks so much for the comment. It just takes practice to learn how to tell the difference from gold and pyrite. Keep it up. Buying paydirt and panning it out over and over again is a great way to get practice.
very informative . thanks
Thanks for sharing this information.
Thank you for watching!
This is my understanding too. I believe I heard Tom Massie say that the right samples can be up to 20-40% gold at one time. Does this sound right?
I'm just starting out and I had this problem because I haven't seen gold yet. Worst comes to worst I'll put the pliers and tweezers to work. Thanks for the video.
It just takes practice. Good luck!
I have a question , ok so .. I have a big land in Mexico , and there’s a place with big Mountain ⛰ you can see all the rocks shining like gold , what can I do or where can I go to get it tested ?
cool video , keep up the good work
The stream beside my house has a lot of mica and I've found thumbnail size pyrite but no gold unfortunately.
Question for you guys, what is the difference between the jobes and tuff stuff deep v groove matting? Nice video from a new comer
Am working on a client's sample. Saw a bunch of sparkly golden colors that float and drift in the pan and change color depending on the light. Fire assay to follow. I do assaying.But so far the sample is showing lots of quartz, black sand and pyrites. Golden colored pyrite can be high in copper with some silver and gold.
Thank you , great video !
Thank you. And thanks for watching.
start at 5:00
Title should be "Ads for gold mining hardware - Followed by gold vs pyrite comparison." Pisses me off when people use YT as a free advertising platform. They could just do a quick mention that the equipment can be found at their website in the description if anyone is interested. When I come across something like this I make sure to never buy from the retailer pulling this stunt.
Richard Helge
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Thank you for this video and information, it's been the most informative video I've seen about this topic on you tube, god bless and good luck in your future gold en devours, p.e.a.c.e 2014.
Thanks for watching Slim!
great vid ! that was really good info ! thanks for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
It only takes a little experience to know the difference. The easiest way, and you mentioned it, is just to shade the material with your hand. The gold will still look like gold, the pyrite and mica will disappear. There's an old adage among prospectors, "If you think it's gold, it's not. If it's gold you'll know it."
Very true sir. Thanks for your comment!
I am a super noob. Did tons of research. I've panned for gold years ago as a kid, not knowing anything.. I thought mica and pyrite were gold but still wasn't sure.. went last week as my first real attempt to locate gold knowing I did NOT find gold previously. At the bottom of my pan( read; frisbee) I got to black sands and literally orange dots smaller than the black sands that wouldn't move and were reflective in all light, almost glowing. I definitely found gold. 1st real try.
but are there specific geographical areas to pan? does it have to be near rivers, foothills or midland to find it.
i live near the coast of north carolina and im having trouble finding out if sea level locations have any gold and if i can just go out in the sounds and pan the sand.
great video thank you
Thank you!!
Test number 3, quick, easy, good enough for me! ;)
That is great. Hope it helps!
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Excellent
Can you take a batch of flour gold and small pickers and place them in a press and squeeze it into a gold sheet, disk, lump ?
I mean a solid form from flour.
Not pure just something you can hold in a mass.
great vid!
Fun video. I was specifically looking for very very thin gold in some video and your video came out your pieces are a little bit bigger than what I was looking for. Not to worry I have my 5 gallon buckets full of paydirt and haven't lost anything. I'm waiting for enough money to buy a blue Bowl separator about 250 bucks
This summer I purchased a 40 acre mining claim from a geological services company in Chester California. I had a choice of many but I bought the one with Queen Lily Campground a u.s. forest service Campground. Search it on maps check out the satellite view.
I was there on Thanksgiving classifying mineralized bedrock to 1/8 of an inch and brought home a few buckets. I didn't dig very deep didn't find any chunks. The bed rack I had just broke its silver in color shiny has gold flecks in it. Found some quartz and brought a large piece home it's about 35 lb.
So I'll be looking for flour gold sometime in March when I get my blue bowl separator and a $3 blender from Goodwill to crush these little Pebbles of bedrock down to 30 70 and 100 mesh
I bought the mining claim because of the campground I live 2000 miles away and can't get there every weekend
Merry Christmas!
Thanks so much! That sounds like one heck of an adventure. I love the blender idea! Let us know when you are ready for a blue bowl we keep plenty in stock...sometimes even used ones. Good luck and happy hunting!
can you cut a gold spec with the tip of a paperclip wire into pieces?
thank you your video was very educational :-))
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Awesome final comment there is hope!
Thank you very much and thanks for watching!
Would iron pyrite shine with lantern light or candle light? Would gold?
thank you for that. cheers
Brilliant !!!
How about trying a high powered hydraulic press similar to one that presses thc under heat. You separate the elements in a pan and then press each for diff. controlled experiments
Chalcopyrite apparently has anywhere from .1 to 3+ grams per tonne according to a little Wikipedia search! It would be worth pulling it out for a large scale copper or iron operation...and fun to try to find as a hobby prospector. That is a lot of material to move and break up for gold alone though. Over time though as it decomposes, mother nature will do the work for you!
Pls how do I get the circulatory machine and how does it work?
Where can a weekend prospector pan around Camden South Carolina?
nice gold makhine
this is very helpful, thanks a lot. I thought I had gold but after watching this, probably not =(
What if it's in little tinny chip Peace's will it still not break?
Is mercury clutching Pirate such as gold
pryite is shiny and when you touch it tends to break or fall apart espic in your pan, also leaves a gold streak I call it if you move it around. You should be able to tell gold . I like to use a high def light source normally it picks up really nice if you don't have a scope. Blue and green pans work best I do use the black ones but tend to be harder to find..
thanks 4 the info
we many pyrates sir we dont know if some gold in there pls answer me pls
I work underground and go by colour. Pyrite is a brassy gold normally a square vein running through the core. Normally in quartz
If the gold is heavier and sinks, then why the need for the larger safety pan underneath? Should n't all the gold be on the bottom of your small pan?
to release the gold from the pyrite is as easy as putting it to heat then dumping it into water ... would it not ??
Hey if I found pyrite gold is that mean there real gold around sir
Let us know the results! Very interesting. Do you have a website for your assaying services, I would be happy to link to it on our website!
Although getting anyone to tell you exactly where to go to find good gold may prove a little more difficult. The GPAA provides a book that helps you find claims you can go prospect for free...but you have to be a member...that is the best place to start for a beginner. The Gold Prospectors Association of America...they have local clubs and outings too you can join in on and get some knowledge.
Great video my friend! I acually met a mine owner last season who was mining pyrite. He has it tested and after the math hes said it was worth mining along with the gold.Once he a big pile of it, they would cook it and get the gold out. He also cooked tons of other sulfides and did quite well at it.
Thank you !
No problem. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the vid
Thanks for watching!
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*wow..awesome vid...thx 4 the lesson....never knew the difference before until this 👍*
Swirl technique isn't very good for finer gold, but like you did the tap technique is the shizzle, lol
are you using jet dry or some kind of soap in your pan? just started watching videos and someone mentioned Jet Dry to help separate the gold.
That's used to break the surface tension of the water, you can use any kind of soap for that I'd imagine