Real Gold Rock Pictures

One of the ways to find raw gold begins with panning for it in creeks or rivers fed by eroded gold from mine or natural deposits in rock formations above the water sources.

Real gold rock pictures.

Once you have seen a few pictures of real gold it is pretty easy to distinguish from the other stuff. Pyrite mica and a variety of other minerals are most commonly confused with actual gold. Gold and silver are obtained from a variety of ores. In fact actual pieces of gold ore doesn t usually look shiny.

The copper penny is in the photo to serve as a scale. To extract the gold the ore is. Gold can look many different ways in nature but it is important to know the difference between gold and the other minerals. These rocks are almost never real gold.

The ore is often brown iron stained rock or massive white quartz and usually contains only minute traces of gold. In this index you ll find pictures of minerals like those you ll most likely encounter in your expeditions. The color of pure gold is bright golden yellow but the greater the silver content the whiter its color is. A copper penny and a tiny gold nugget on a black streak plate with a small streak made by the nugget.

If the quartz sticks to the magnet then it contains iron pyrite or fool s gold. The tiny nugget weighs 0 0035 troy ounce and at a gold price of 1200 ozt the nugget if it were pure gold would have a gold value of 4 20. There are lots of gold colored rocks out there that could be a variety of different minerals. All of the pictures on this page are real genuine natural gold nuggets.

They can vary quite a bit not only in shape and texture but also in purity and brightness. To identify gold inside of a piece of quartz hold a magnet against the rock. While each piece can look quite a bit different it s pretty easy to know what real gold looks. Gold nuggets are all somewhat different.

If you re interested in rock collecting you know that rocks you find in the real world rarely look like the polished specimens you see you rock shops or museums. You can also try to scratch a piece of glass or unglazed ceramic with the gold portion of the rock. Check out some of the pictures throughout our website of the various gold nuggets and gold specimens. Placer gold roughly 75 to 95 percent real gold comes in a variety of shapes and sizes from small flakes to large bumpy nuggets.