Processing some quartz

I've been busy crushing quartz rock 32kg in fact and have finished the total processing of it now the end result is 33.38g of gold which is just over 1 gram per Kg or rock









cheers dave

Great work Dave and Veronica!

Now you need to go get some more  high grade quartz

yes, if I could bring a tonne of them rocks back at that grade would be over a kilo of the good stuff

Nice work Dave. Looks like you have got the right equipment for the job. There was a bloke in Kal who would crush for you small scale is he still going?
I crow barred some very rich quartz out of the ground Northeast of here and got best part of two ounces out of the dolly. There is more there but to follow the lead would take some equipment that would have me breaking the rules. I have kept a chunk of quartz with visible gold to show newbies and those interested the difference between the real thing and all the other shiny bits in quartz. I will try and put a pic up of the piece when I figure out how.
Cheers gr.

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groundrush wrote:There was a bloke in Kal who would crush for you small scale is he still going?

I don't really know which one you mean, but I think finders keepers will run a bit of rock through a mill an a small scale for you.

I would rather do it at home it gives me something to do, and yes gradually added some things to the equipment to speed it up and make it easier/faster

The first little dolly pot and panning dish was slow going


cheers dave

I ended up just chucking mine in a 44 drum along with all the sticks and just roasted away for the night, it made a massive difference , way easier to crush.
Problem is I stuffed up and didn't know which ore came from where, not that there was any values worth investigation in that.

1&halfgram4three wrote:I ended up just chucking mine in a 44 drum along with all the sticks and just roasted away for the night, it made a massive difference , way easier to crush.
Problem is I stuffed up and didn't know which ore came from where, not that there was any values worth investigation in that.

that's a good idea, roast the quarts to help soften it, I know running 32kg through my impact chain mill wore the chain down and put alot of ground up metal filings in the powered up material that I had to run through the gold cube, but a magnet attached to a long bolt and slid in a plastic tube cylinder picked up the filings and then just a matter of lifting the magnet and drop the filings into another pan and check for gold that was tangled

and that's a 5/8" HT bolt fitted into the chain links


cheers dave

Nice bit of alluvial gold groundrush, have you had it soak in acid. Was it a lone nugget or part of a patch.

I like the red staining on this on this one, so it's been in the cleaner and nothing else. It came from an area of old alluvial workings at Arltunga. Lucky for me I arrived one morning to find a fair size tree blown over roots and all in a recent storm. The first one was 18g then a 5g and that was it in the area the tree had stood, a week or so later following the downward trend of ground from the first two and after hauling the fallen tree aside a deep pocket produced the heart.