Really enjoyed that video. It was one of the most informative videos pertaining to questions that have been haunting me since I began hunting for minerals. You can imagine how pleased we are to have Those types of rock in our piles. What I enjoyed as well was the thorough examples and explanation of its behaviour was that it was to the point. Thumbs up all around G.R.E.I.!!
Oh my goodness thank you! I've been collecting rocks for almost 4 years now and people always told me I'm silly blah blah they're just rocks and I'm like is they're pretty and you just blew my mind i gave soooo much of all of that!! And then some yipeeeee now I gotta see if you have videos on how to... get it out...
THANK YOU ,! Finally a video that identifies Gold Ore .( ! PROPERLY !) You guys rock. I have a feeling I will be learning a lot from your work.Thanx again from Butte Montana/ The Richest Hill in Earth ✌️
One thing id like to know is how to tell the difference between the gold and pyrite in the quartz and iron ore without using special tools and chemicals
@@Manatees_Rock it depends. sulfides tend to hide gold pretty well. almost invisible to the naked eye until you roast it. extracting it will be a different problem all by itself
thanks for showing the different ores containing gold. I'm on a new site that nobody's ever mined other than test pits. thanks again for showing the ore. you'll get better photos if you take them at Twilight.
I went to an area close to gold basin and checked black metamorphic rocks (I think they're metamorphic). Found a big vein looking outcrop. But not sure if it carries gold. My metal detector won't sound on quartz vein but right next to the the vein it will sound when swinging detector passing the quartz.
I passed up a lot of gold as a kid lol. One time I gave a piece to my middle school math teacher and she said was blown away. I said "what, it's just a stupid rock!" And she said. "That's good ore, you're rich!"
Only rich if you can get it out of the ground and processed... otherwise its just pretty rocks! Thats the biggest impediment to mining today. Its one thing to find it, a totally different thing to turn that into cash.
Cracked me up and learned something. 👍 6 mins in. THAT rock is all I really see here in Oregon. Off a claimed site anyways. Recently found an approximately 30ibs rock too heavy to carry that was covered in pyrite and rust, clay and hard rock like that. Just off a trail in the right environment for gold. Gold bug kept reading it like 2 different metals, one which was a gold sound. Broke off pieces. Took home tested. .18 IN JUST MAYBE 6 ibs of crushed material. Silver, Gold flake throughout along with alot of pyrite, specs of solid copper. Hiked back up 2 days later to get the rest.....GONE. Someone left it, came back to get it or stumbled on it as I did. Made me sick. Been scouring an area of Mt. Hood National Forest since December trying to figure out where they got it from or where it came from. Where it was just didn't have what was showing in that one piece. Possible, but not exactly where it was. No trace
I just watched this video with both cell and wifi off up to 4.3 mins but did not show in my history. We Are sitting on a lot of iron though 😂 Great videos! Very helpful. Thank you!
Your advice was very good and very right . It helped a lot . I believe yous and used your advice. My picks are being checked now it's 9:36 pm , Feb 4, 2022
ty so much.. I feel like crying.. you just clarified alot of my life long suspitions.. also my significant other has made me throw alot of my rocks away or he has just thrown them away because he said that gold always is just hold and it's undeniable.. but I kept trying to tell him that it's hiding in the ugly stuff, the black stuff, also I believe that pyrite is gold, just the mineral that it grows in causes it to take on another form of gold. also everything u said about quarts and pyrite and gold run together I have experienced just that ... but he calls me crazy.. I'm so thankful for your educational and eye opening video. ty so much. now if u will excuse me I've got to go get my rocks before he throws them out ...
I think your video is awesome! It was very helpful and easy to understand and the best part is I have several of those heavy ugly rocks that are a lot like your examples!! Thank You so much.I guess now I will go to your website to find out how I go about extracting it from the rest of the minerals.
I'm in canda but I just found a old mine from 1940s the amount of pyrite we found is wild and what your saying I'm seeing so much of. How do u tell the difference between gold n pyrite?!? It was a silver mine ....
Awesome video super interesting but makes me claw my eyes cause iv moved on from darker ore in the field to looking for more of the shinier ores ='( and now I am going to have to go back and take a look at some of the older darker deposits I have found. Excellent video would like to see a 2nd video where maybe you do more of a slower close up of the different ores and go alittle more indepth about them and the surrounding host rock/environment they where found in.
Hi! Thanks for the video! Is there some place I can send photos to? It seems like the ore I have found has a sulphur smell, is that normal? My sample has a lot of square pirite crystals but also has gold in it but not tested. I think the host rock is DG.
Hi, We don't do assessments. But if you have rocks you think have value, you should send them in for an assay. Ray Grimmer at assayfast.com is a great resource.
Were can I get refinery for my gold ore ,I from san fernando valley los angeles it because I dont have claim I got high grade ore would you help me out please
Refineries will only run ore in batches of several tons, and its not cheap. You will need to quantify in most cases, the source of your gold. if you dont have the rights to the claim it came from, you could end up in big trouble. Best of luck.
I live in Fort Worth Texas. I have recently discovered a bunch of what I believe is iron or it's yellow there's also a bunch of different kinds of sandstones however some of them have been hardened and they look a lot like some of the first samples you showed. Would it be possible for me to email you some pictures and perhaps gain some insight into what I'm actually looking at?
Very informative. No one else that i have watched while attempting to educate the viewers has been as concise or descriptive as you. I feel more confident to go out and prospect for gold here in the great state of New York where prospecting is allowed but keeping the gold is Not. Something to do w " The Kings Law " Such BS. Sorry ! So thank you for the education.
Thank you for the information. I just started metal detecting an area on our property that now seems to be what was a river at some point. I find tiny pieces of rock (ONLY on a less discrimination setting) with apparent minerals in them. At sizes from 1/4 inch to 1/2 scattered everywhere. I have never tried to find minerals but I am interested now in the search. With such small sizes and no larger ones, at this point, I don't know if the search will provide much for the effort. I live in northwest Ga and know of gold mining in the neighboring Blue Ridge region. Do you have any pointers/input in my situation? Thank you both again.
This is an excellent video. I have found tons of ugly rock including iron stained and mineralized quartz along with what appears to be small spots of common opal. This spot is not far from a spot which people have found small amounts of gold and there is also an opal mine within a couple of miles. Your video has been more helpful then all the others that I have found. Thank you for making it. There is also some very iron stained shale under the quartz: does that mean anything?
I got into panning about a year ago, gotten samples from all over from cave creek to Casa Grande.. Haven't found a spec of gold...Until yesterday when i smashed an ugly rock from the old mine i went to and boom, a few specs of micro-fine! (Ya i know, pathetic, but it gave me hope!)
I have so many rocks that people say are ugly that looks just like what you showed me. So just crush it down and pan it huh? What if its wire gold? Will it pan the same.
Oh yeah..thanks so much for the info. You give me hope! Seen tons of stuff about people telling me its fools gold. Ive collected rocks for years...not for gold but it seems I have gotten lucky in choosing ones with gold in them. Im just nervouse about crushing and panning.
Lots of ways, the most simple if you have free gold is to crush the rock to a fine powder and then run it over a table. If its sulphide, you will need a flotation system to extract after crushing.
Just had a few pics of some rocks that I would like to know what I have. I've been collecting rocks from out west for the 10 years that I drove truck. Where would I send the pics to to be viewed?
Pics wont get you a good assessment. You need an assay. Ray Grimmer labs (assayfast.com) or similar. Crush it, and send it off! Thats how we know what is in the rocks!
To pull the gold from pyrites you will need to crush to a very fine powder, then separate, this is best done with flotation, or cyanide. Short answer, you dont want to be trying to crush and pan gold from pyrite. Your recovery will be less than stellar.
A friend of mine has a lot of samples of gold ore he is collected throughout the years and he has no place to get rid of it he is it hard up for cash at the moment and really needs to sell some of the stuff but nobody around us will buy it can you give us any advice on where to take it we live in fort Mill South Carolina
Do you know of anywhere we could sell gold ore? We have been collecting for years and are finally ready to part with some - not our favorites of course 😂.
I was walking after raining in the NC Mountains and noticed a lot of sparkling as the sun came out,flakes everywhere. Notice serveral rocks when I got back on the trail, so I collected a few wash them . They have such a beautiful sparkles like glitter everywhere. It's 1 that's very nice bigger pieces of what seem to be gold and white rock and my son say rust maybe. Is it possible it could be gold
Thank you for the straight talk on gold rocks.
Really enjoyed that video. It was one of the most informative videos pertaining to questions that have been haunting me since I began hunting for minerals. You can imagine how pleased we are to have Those types of rock in our piles. What I enjoyed as well was the thorough examples and explanation of its behaviour was that it was to the point. Thumbs up all around G.R.E.I.!!
Extremely helpful. That "UGLY!" at 5:36 will forever haunt me at night though
😂😂
Oh my goodness thank you! I've been collecting rocks for almost 4 years now and people always told me I'm silly blah blah they're just rocks and I'm like is they're pretty and you just blew my mind i gave soooo much of all of that!! And then some yipeeeee now I gotta see if you have videos on how to... get it out...
See things at brighter sights.God bless
Thank you, you are the first people to answer that question for me
THANK YOU ,! Finally a video that identifies Gold Ore .( ! PROPERLY !) You guys rock. I have a feeling I will be learning a lot from your work.Thanx again from Butte Montana/ The Richest Hill in Earth ✌️
Awesome! Thank you!
One thing id like to know is how to tell the difference between the gold and pyrite in the quartz and iron ore without using special tools and chemicals
In school we were told if it flakes it's fake if it holds it's gold. Though I never found much gold in northern California as a kid at the river.
If you look at it under a microscope and it looks like blocks, then it’s pyrite.
Gold stays yellow in the shade , Micah and pyrite turns dark and black in shade...
@@Manatees_Rock it depends. sulfides tend to hide gold pretty well. almost invisible to the naked eye until you roast it. extracting it will be a different problem all by itself
How do you get the gold out of that rock?
thanks for showing the different ores containing gold. I'm on a new site that nobody's ever mined other than test pits. thanks again for showing the ore. you'll get better photos if you take them at Twilight.
By far the very best video for identify rock with gold
Thanks!!
I went to an area close to gold basin and checked black metamorphic rocks (I think they're metamorphic). Found a big vein looking outcrop. But not sure if it carries gold. My metal detector won't sound on quartz vein but right next to the the vein it will sound when swinging detector passing the quartz.
Great video very informative made me realize that some of these rocks I've been hanging onto are worth hanging onto thank you
Amazing identification of metals and gold in various gold ore samples. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing..happy to see the wonder of this world and its usefulness..God bless
That video just showed me what ive been dyint to know thanks
Awesome!
One , if not the best information i have come across . Very well explained . Many thanks
Thank you for your support!
I passed up a lot of gold as a kid lol. One time I gave a piece to my middle school math teacher and she said was blown away. I said "what, it's just a stupid rock!" And she said. "That's good ore, you're rich!"
Only rich if you can get it out of the ground and processed... otherwise its just pretty rocks! Thats the biggest impediment to mining today. Its one thing to find it, a totally different thing to turn that into cash.
Thanks for this! Now ready to visit the untapped places in the Philippines. :)
Cracked me up and learned something. 👍 6 mins in. THAT rock is all I really see here in Oregon. Off a claimed site anyways. Recently found an approximately 30ibs rock too heavy to carry that was covered in pyrite and rust, clay and hard rock like that. Just off a trail in the right environment for gold. Gold bug kept reading it like 2 different metals, one which was a gold sound. Broke off pieces. Took home tested. .18 IN JUST MAYBE 6 ibs of crushed material. Silver, Gold flake throughout along with alot of pyrite, specs of solid copper. Hiked back up 2 days later to get the rest.....GONE. Someone left it, came back to get it or stumbled on it as I did. Made me sick. Been scouring an area of Mt. Hood National Forest since December trying to figure out where they got it from or where it came from. Where it was just didn't have what was showing in that one piece. Possible, but not exactly where it was. No trace
I never get tired of watching this video.
All the History in that ........Thanks for the share
I just watched this video with both cell and wifi off up to 4.3 mins but did not show in my history. We Are sitting on a lot of iron though 😂 Great videos! Very helpful. Thank you!
hi may i ask kind sir, what equipments do you use for mining underground?
Your advice was very good and very right . It helped a lot . I believe yous and used your advice. My picks are being checked now it's 9:36 pm , Feb 4, 2022
Happy to help!
ty so much.. I feel like crying.. you just clarified alot of my life long suspitions.. also my significant other has made me throw alot of my rocks away or he has just thrown them away because he said that gold always is just hold and it's undeniable.. but I kept trying to tell him that it's hiding in the ugly stuff, the black stuff, also I believe that pyrite is gold, just the mineral that it grows in causes it to take on another form of gold. also everything u said about quarts and pyrite and gold run together I have experienced just that ... but he calls me crazy.. I'm so thankful for your educational and eye opening video. ty so much. now if u will excuse me I've got to go get my rocks before he throws them out ...
I think your video is awesome! It was very helpful and easy to understand and the best part is I have several of those heavy ugly rocks that are a lot like your examples!! Thank You so much.I guess now I will go to your website to find out how I go about extracting it from the rest of the minerals.
Tnx for lesson.... North Caucasus...
thanks for the education
very intersting an i enjoyed . geology is more than meets the eye ...
Very well done and informative video guys. Looking forward to using this as a guide on my next prospecting adventure. Maybe I'll find a beer.
I'm in canda but I just found a old mine from 1940s the amount of pyrite we found is wild and what your saying I'm seeing so much of. How do u tell the difference between gold n pyrite?!? It was a silver mine ....
Some real helpful stuff , great video dude 👌👍🤙💥⛏
Super Awesome Video!! Thanks!! Subscribed!!
Scared the crap outta me at 5:39 and 6:02
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Awesome video super interesting but makes me claw my eyes cause iv moved on from darker ore in the field to looking for more of the shinier ores ='( and now I am going to have to go back and take a look at some of the older darker deposits I have found. Excellent video would like to see a 2nd video where maybe you do more of a slower close up of the different ores and go alittle more indepth about them and the surrounding host rock/environment they where found in.
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll keep that in mind the next time we go out and film!
Sweet video helps a lot
Thanks .
Wow we are rich together with that kind of information
Great lesson
Hi! Thanks for the video! Is there some place I can send photos to? It seems like the ore I have found has a sulphur smell, is that normal? My sample has a lot of square pirite crystals but also has gold in it but not tested. I think the host rock is DG.
Hi, We don't do assessments. But if you have rocks you think have value, you should send them in for an assay. Ray Grimmer at assayfast.com is a great resource.
Thank you for this valuable information.
Hey dude
Thank you for your time and shareing the facts
Were can I get refinery for my gold ore ,I from san fernando valley los angeles it because I dont have claim I got high grade ore would you help me out please
Refineries will only run ore in batches of several tons, and its not cheap. You will need to quantify in most cases, the source of your gold. if you dont have the rights to the claim it came from, you could end up in big trouble. Best of luck.
Thanks very enjoyable but picture quality was a little sad. Im using a MacBook Pro so don't think its my gear, still good.
Thank you, can’t wait to see what I have, I’m probably struggling for nothing 😂
Super Informative. All meat no veggies.
I live in Fort Worth Texas. I have recently discovered a bunch of what I believe is iron or it's yellow there's also a bunch of different kinds of sandstones however some of them have been hardened and they look a lot like some of the first samples you showed. Would it be possible for me to email you some pictures and perhaps gain some insight into what I'm actually looking at?
We aren't geologists by any means. We look for precious metals and define those trends. Maybe hit up a local college geology department?
Very informative and to the point. I wish I would have taken more interest as a younger person. I guess it’s never to late
Very informative. No one else that i have watched while attempting to educate the viewers has been as concise or descriptive as you. I feel more confident to go out and prospect for gold here in the great state of New York where prospecting is allowed but keeping the gold is Not. Something to do w " The Kings Law " Such BS. Sorry ! So thank you for the education.
Very helpful to me. Educate More on how to identify stones containing gold.
The piece at 2:43 - how can you tell if it’s gold bearing vs just a big piece of magnetite or something ferrous? Trying to learn :)
I found a little piece of quartz with some golden stuff in a mine in Mexico, It looks almost identical to the one at 3:44 just smaller, nice,
Great video
Thank you
Excellent stuff🙂
That answers my Minecraft question. Thank you 😊
Video was helpful! Thank you.
very interesting, I wonder if large amounts of gold containing ore is discarded in tailings .
Thank you for the information. I just started metal detecting an area on our property that now seems to be what was a river at some point. I find tiny pieces of rock (ONLY on a less discrimination setting) with apparent minerals in them. At sizes from 1/4 inch to 1/2 scattered everywhere. I have never tried to find minerals but I am interested now in the search. With such small sizes and no larger ones, at this point, I don't know if the search will provide much for the effort. I live in northwest Ga and know of gold mining in the neighboring Blue Ridge region. Do you have any pointers/input in my situation? Thank you both again.
Faye Yother What metal detector do you have? I can offer advice, but I need to know that.
Excellent video and thank you for sharing
Those ugly rocks,looks beautiful in eyes now :)
Love it great info best I seen or heard yet thanks
Thank you so much 😊
Im a caver and Explorer, thanks for the info.😁👌🇺🇸
Extremely Informative Video!! Thank you!
This is an excellent video. I have found tons of ugly rock including iron stained and mineralized quartz along with what appears to be small spots of common opal. This spot is not far from a spot which people have found small amounts of gold and there is also an opal mine within a couple of miles. Your video has been more helpful then all the others that I have found. Thank you for making it. There is also some very iron stained shale under the quartz: does that mean anything?
Very helpful .
I got into panning about a year ago, gotten samples from all over from cave creek to Casa Grande.. Haven't found a spec of gold...Until yesterday when i smashed an ugly rock from the old mine i went to and boom, a few specs of micro-fine! (Ya i know, pathetic, but it gave me hope!)
greetings, then you say that where is pyrite can contain gold? Or do I have to dig more to find the gold? I found a pyrite beta
Crush up the pyrites and then get a good gravity read for your shaker. The pyrite will be slightly lighter than the gold.
I found line of black with yellow color in rock (greenish color rock)..so what is it boss?
I have so many rocks that people say are ugly that looks just like what you showed me. So just crush it down and pan it huh? What if its wire gold? Will it pan the same.
Oh yeah..thanks so much for the info. You give me hope! Seen tons of stuff about people telling me its fools gold. Ive collected rocks for years...not for gold but it seems I have gotten lucky in choosing ones with gold in them. Im just nervouse about crushing and panning.
This is an amazing video thank you guys!
Great educational video !!! You all are genuinely blessed for all your hard work, time & talent! :) :) :) Thank you
Thank you
How do you get the gold out of the rocks?
Lots of ways, the most simple if you have free gold is to crush the rock to a fine powder and then run it over a table. If its sulphide, you will need a flotation system to extract after crushing.
@@goldrushmines Thanks! I will have to learn more about that.
Thanks for this good info. And education.
Ron
saw this a long time ago - finally can comment to say thanks
Any good videos to watch to identify gold ore in the upper peninsula of michigan?
I have so many that look like those especially the pyrite and quartz
What about Hematite? Fine grain with rusty bumps in it 30% black grains or more?
Thank you this is a huge help
Just had a few pics of some rocks that I would like to know what I have. I've been collecting rocks from out west for the 10 years that I drove truck. Where would I send the pics to to be viewed?
Pics wont get you a good assessment. You need an assay. Ray Grimmer labs (assayfast.com) or similar. Crush it, and send it off! Thats how we know what is in the rocks!
great video
Thanks!
@@goldrushmines im looking for a expert for some advice/ questions. could this be you, my email thisguygoesgreen@gmail
I love your video. Thank you so much❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
Can you pan gold from pyrite INFESTED rock,will it separate in the pan, or is it the same density
To pull the gold from pyrites you will need to crush to a very fine powder, then separate, this is best done with flotation, or cyanide. Short answer, you dont want to be trying to crush and pan gold from pyrite. Your recovery will be less than stellar.
A friend of mine has a lot of samples of gold ore he is collected throughout the years and he has no place to get rid of it he is it hard up for cash at the moment and really needs to sell some of the stuff but nobody around us will buy it can you give us any advice on where to take it we live in fort Mill South Carolina
I've been finding heavy black rocks, what could they be?
Could be iron, tungsten, gold... send them in for an assay!
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Awesome video! Thanks for sharing! I loved it.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks, I found this video very informative.
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This has helped me so much ..
I love this guys info, can you give me a tour of your mine? 🙏🙏🙏
Hi Julie- We have mines all over the western states, but we dont give tours. Sorry!
one of the best explanations i've seen. thanks!
Beautiful video
nice job guys
nice and quick explanation ! thx for sharring
What does gold ore from the Great lakes region look like? Particularly lake Michigan area
Not sure on that one, never dug up any gold from that area. Lots of copper though!
I've got a 22 pound quartz with gold flakes. Should I split it?
All depends. Are you going to crush it and wash it, or just see more flakes? Do you want to sell it or just look at it. Lots of variables there!
Super helpful.. thanks for the rundown on the ugly rocks..lol..
Do you know of anywhere we could sell gold ore? We have been collecting for years and are finally ready to part with some - not our favorites of course 😂.
Rock shows, ebay, etc... Quartzsite has a great rock show every year.
I was walking after raining in the NC Mountains and noticed a lot of sparkling as the sun came out,flakes everywhere. Notice serveral rocks when I got back on the trail, so I collected a few wash them . They have such a beautiful sparkles like glitter everywhere. It's 1 that's very nice bigger pieces of what seem to be gold and white rock and my son say rust maybe. Is it possible it could be gold
Always possible. You can crush it and pan it, or send samples in for assay!
great vid! thankyou
You owe me 5 pitchers of beer lmao
Arkansas is rich in both quartz and pyrites...but no gold...but we do have an the only alluvial diamond deposit in America
I found a little gold in arkansas
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