Real Gold Rock Pictures

One of the ways to find raw gold begins with panning for it in creeks or rivers fed by eroded gold from mine or natural deposits in rock formations above the water sources.

Real gold rock pictures.

To identify gold inside of a piece of quartz hold a magnet against the rock. Gold and silver are obtained from a variety of ores. All of the pictures on this page are real genuine natural gold nuggets. Once you have seen a few pictures of real gold it is pretty easy to distinguish from the other stuff.

The ore is often brown iron stained rock or massive white quartz and usually contains only minute traces of gold. You can also try to scratch a piece of glass or unglazed ceramic with the gold portion of the rock. Real gold will not scratch these substances. In fact actual pieces of gold ore doesn t usually look shiny.

While each piece can look quite a bit different it s pretty easy to know what real gold looks. 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. Gold nuggets are all somewhat different. In this index you ll find pictures of minerals like those you ll most likely encounter in your expeditions.

Check out some of the pictures throughout our website of the various gold nuggets and gold specimens. The copper penny is in the photo to serve as a scale. These rocks are almost never real gold. Pyrite mica and a variety of other minerals are most commonly confused with actual gold.

The color of pure gold is bright golden yellow but the greater the silver content the whiter its color is. They can vary quite a bit not only in shape and texture but also in purity and brightness. If the quartz sticks to the magnet then it contains iron pyrite or fool s gold. To extract the gold the ore is.

Much of the gold mined is actually from gold ore rather then actual gold specimens. 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. Placer gold roughly 75 to 95 percent real gold comes in a variety of shapes and sizes from small flakes to large bumpy nuggets. A copper penny and a tiny gold nugget on a black streak plate with a small streak made by the nugget.