Last summer I found an old river channel, digging down a couple of feet came across a layer of sandstone of which I brought a few pails full with me to the Island. Bored this afternoon decided to grab an handful to play with.
Breaking up the sandstone then panning some out the sample looks promising with little wee gold flakes, I'll be sending a sample out for an assay if this assay comes back with promising results I will return to my summer haunt to work this area.
I left my centrifuge at a friends place, all it need to be operational is a V-belt and a new battery for the gasoline engine.
From the sandstone sample added some soap then made suds, the beautiful colours floating on top of the bubbles are precious metals but only an assay will reveal their species.
On the bottom photo the bits reflecting camera flash are also precious metals, precious metals do not oxide so they retain their brilliance which enables them to reflect light from the bright camera flash.
Wish me luck fellow scrappers as living on a pension sucks.
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