Thread: Weighing gold anyone know what they are doing?

Got a little bit of gold I’ve found it’s not much but I’m kind of interested to know how much it is. I can get it from the pan to a little vial but have no idea where to go from here. It’s a mixture of really fine stuff to some pickers. So if anyone around Christchurch wouldn’t mind babysitting me through the weighing be much appreciated cheers

If you reload you probably have the perfect set of scales.

If it is clean, ie no rubbish or iron sands etc, my experiene is that is is worth around 90% of the gold price when you remove the other impurities, silver copper. Gold I collected from a claim top of the SI was 94.3% pure, 4% silver and then others.

Originally Posted by LBD

If it is clean, ie no rubbish or iron sands etc, my experiene is that is is worth around 90% of the gold price when you remove the other impurities, silver copper. Gold I collected from a claim top of the SI was 94.3% pure, 4% silver and then others.

I’ll never sell it plan is if I find enough to get a ring made for the wife. It’s going to take a while but if I dig enough holes you never know

Originally Posted by Mr300WSM

I’ll never sell it plan is if I find enough to get a ring made for the wife. It’s going to take a while but if I dig enough holes you never know

Great idea, mine & wifeys wedding rings were made from black sand gold we got ourselves from down on the West Coast, MIL has a wee claim down there on the beach.

Reloading scales are an easy, accurate means of weighing gold. Do it on a big white dinner plate in case you spill some, its a bastard trying to track it down on a wooden coloured table top! Theres 15.43 grains in a gram, 480 grains in a troy ounce, which is slightly more than your normal baking ounce. The gold price on various websites is nearly always in troy ounces. Store it in a small glass bottle rather than plastic cos it tends to stick inside a plastic container. And then keep it safe in your gunsafe cos if you have a house fire, it melts at a far greater temperature than your normal fire and can be recovered with a metal detector afterwards.

Reloading scales are perfect.
I can show you how to get it perfectly clean without wasting money of flash gold wheels.

Most of the gimmicky gold gear is to catch gold miners and not gold

So here's a funny gold story.

Another forum member and I had put a bit of material through my high banker between hunts on the Westcoast.
We had a small potties of super concentrats in the truck.

One night there was a retired couple share the cottage with us who were on a road trip looking for gold.
They had every gadget there was.
He pulled out a gold wheel to clean a tablespoon of concentrates and got a few colours in his pottle.

His wife ( who clearly wasn't hooked on gold prospecting ) asked me how I cleaned my gold.

We were half pissed from memory and I was enjoying seeing all this guys gear.

I had a huge sheet of white paper I carry rolled up inside my Fishing rod tube.
Laid it out on the table.
Pour the dry gold and some iron and garnets in a white gentlely curved Asian style bowl.
And gently blow is small puffs and you can see the iron going over the edge but the gold goes back down inside.
Move it around and get just the right amount of blow that no gold goes over the top.
But the white paper shows if you are blowing to hard.

Anyway I was just being a show off really that you didn't need a $1000 gold wheel and a bowl and white paper did a good job anyway.

I'm pretty sure he got a fair bit of shit from his wife on the rest of that trip.

The lesson in this is gimmicks won't get you gold.
Some really basic gear and a lot of hard work will though

It's a great pass time when you hunt early and late.
Fills I some time and is a good social activity

Where's tussock when you need him