I have pyrite that sets off my metal detector and some that dont, i crushed it and put it in hcl and nitric acid solution, and most of it went into a golden orange soultion, stannous chloride test showed gold, i used sodium metabisulfite to percipitate the gold and retested my solution, and orange and green stain meaning platinum group metals, out of 5 lbs of pyrite i got 4 ozs of gold and just under an oz of platinum polladium mixed metals, left me with a blue solution i put into a makeshift electrolytic cell and pure silver crystal is growing!!!!! I love it, geology and chemistry= alchemy
Brilliant videos. Thanks for putting these together. It's a great introduction that leaves one hungry to continue learning more. Love the pytitized ammonite. The one I have is one of my favourite non-fluorescing mineral.
Thanks you answered a lot of questions for me. Found a copper silver pyrite vein the best I could describe it was a peacock malachite vein that blends in to iron cinnabar and mercury and a gold color. I dissolved some of it in a acid, it left a silver leaf on quartz
THANK YOU OIT OF ALL OF THE MINERAL AND GEMS CHANNELS, THIS IS TBE FIRST ONE THAT I FELT THAT I ACTUALLY LEARNED SOMETHING VALUABLE WHEN I AM OUT IN THE FIELDS , NOT TASTING ANYTHING GROSS :)
Hi! I have found what I believe to be a big weathered arsenopyrite nodule, I have keep it in a wooden box for some months now I checked and the rock is full of white powdery crystals, I think they are arsenolite, am I right? IF it is how dangerous that stuff is? getting paranoid thinking I need to do a heavy metal test to check arsenic levels... PS also when I open the box I noticed a strange metallic smell.
@cvshorley is it true that under certain known processes, which i dont want to say because it's dangerous, you can extract small bits of gold from pyrite? Or are these small buttons of "gold" just pyrite left over?
Hi Jeff, gold and pyrite can occur together and pyrite will be much more common. I’ve seen gold threads growing from a pyritic vein in the Edgar mine. The method you hinted at will float pyrite and sink gold. You need to have enough Au to make that worthwhile.
@@CVshorey thank you sir! I have learned SO much from you in two months it's incredible. I'm so grateful for the knowledge you share. One day i intend on sending you something I've found or made, (going to try obsidian 😁) or made from something found from the education you've given me. Add me if you like and we can exchange info one day and I'll send you something from the precambrian canadian shield...i've found some really gniess rocks 😝 Amazonite, moonstones, 50lb marble thats all calcite crystals, an augen gniess with something big in the middle that shows schiller lines... I really love the feldspars, even some k-spar. What's your favourite? 😁 thank you again!
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David Myers not at all. I only mention the most common varieties. Mindat.org is a good source to look up minerals in detail. I’m just starting to play with the RUFF mineral website, but it looks interesting.
Eric Mc pyrite appears with or without gold, so no guarantee your rock has gold, and even if it does, it may not be worth trying to extract. There are gold ore locations where the gold is too low in concentration to make it economically worthwhile to mine and process.
Your river had a pH of 6.2?!! You should see the Rio Tinto in Spain and the Rio Odiel, I measured a pH of just 2 there. We had an exploration office nearby and were warned not to wash the cars with the local water.
