3 use a sledgehammer to break the rock into smaller pieces.
Gold flakes in quartz rock.
Hard rock mining also known as lode mining is obviously the best method for finding gold specimens since you are mining the true source of the gold by following veins of high grade ore into the mountain.
Dry and place your genuine gold nuggets and any gold dust you find and extract from quartz rocks into small glass vials for storage and for subsequent gold assaying metals analysis refining display or sale.
When gold is still encased in quartz rock it is called a gold specimen.
Finding gold in quartz rock.
Pan break up and re pan finer and finer fractions.
Normally even good rich gold ore has no gold metal which is visible to the naked eye.
Employ standard placer gold panning methods to extract small gold nuggets and gold dust from the pulverized rock.
You can extract gold from quartz rock that contains veins of gold.
However you ll need to crush the quartz to access the gold.
This chunk of vein quartz from mariposa is typical of gold quartz material from the mother lode district of california.
These are a real treat for gold prospectors and collectors as well and are often valued at a premium due to their beauty and rarity.
Yes gold can be found in quartz.
The photo at left shows small particles of metallic gold in quartz taken from the mountains of canada.