Real Gold Rock Pictures

If the quartz sticks to the magnet then it contains iron pyrite or fool s gold.

Real gold rock pictures.

To identify gold inside of a piece of quartz hold a magnet against the rock. Check out some of the pictures throughout our website of the various gold nuggets and gold specimens. Much of the gold mined is actually from gold ore rather then actual gold specimens. The color of pure gold is bright golden yellow but the greater the silver content the whiter its color is.

Once you have seen a few pictures of real gold it is pretty easy to distinguish from the other stuff. Most people think of nuggets and such but the truth is that very little comes from nuggets nearly all newly mined gold comes from ores mined from the natural hard rocks that contain gold in tiny even microscopic particles. They can vary quite a bit not only in shape and texture but also in purity and brightness. While each piece can look quite a bit different it s pretty easy to know what real gold looks.

To extract the gold the ore is. A copper penny and a tiny gold nugget on a black streak plate with a small streak made by the nugget. 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. The copper penny is in the photo to serve as a scale.

These rocks are almost never real gold. Gold can look many different ways in nature but it is important to know the difference between gold and the other minerals. Pyrite mica and a variety of other minerals are most commonly confused with actual gold. There are lots of gold colored rocks out there that could be a variety of different minerals.

Gold and silver are obtained from a variety of ores. 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. All of the pictures on this page are real genuine natural gold nuggets.

In this index you ll find pictures of minerals like those you ll most likely encounter in your expeditions. Real gold will not scratch these substances. Placer gold roughly 75 to 95 percent real gold comes in a variety of shapes and sizes from small flakes to large bumpy nuggets. The ore is often brown iron stained rock or massive white quartz and usually contains only minute traces of gold.