It Looks Like Gold - Brass Recycling

Here is one of my latest articles. It's free to read. https://hubpages.com/money/A-Few-Odd-Metal-Objects-to-Recycle-for-Cash

The Difficulty With Gold

Ever wonder why gold is so hard to find? Good read here.
https://hobbylark.com/metal-detecting/Find-Gold-Anywhere-And-Why-Most-Will-Not

Photo by Robert Thiemann on Unsplash

Review of Two Spiral Wheels

https://hobbylark.com/metal-detecting/Spiral-Wheel-Gold-Panning-Machines-Automated-Gold-Recovery

Separating the Fines Of Gold

Try reading my latest article on the Blue Bowl Concentrator. This device is judged by many as the best separator of fine gold. Fine gold concentrate panning is arduous and monotonous. But a Blue Bowl will recover gold as fine as powder and is much easier on the back. Learn the advantages of the Blue Bowl: how to run it and why it works the way it does.

https://hobbylark.com/metal-detecting/Fine-Gold-Recovery-With-A-Blue-Bowl-Concentrator

1828 Georgia Event Event Lead to What Is Called The "Georgia Gold Rush"

Just came across an article on Georgia gold mining. It goes over the history of the Gold Belt in Georgia and dabbles in its history dating back to the 1820's. It's a good one you shouldn't miss.
https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/north-georgia-gold-rush/

Yellow Brass is Golden Treasure

FYI finished another article on metal recycling. One man's trash is another man's gold.
https://hubpages.com/money/An-Old-Timers-Frugal-Experience-With-Metal-Recycling

Miller Tables

FYI, my latest article about the Miller Table. https://hobbylark.com/metal-detecting/The-Miller-Table-Refining-Fine-Placer-Gold

Teel Centrifugal Pump

TEEL
Centrifugal Pump
Model LP 884 BE
Suction and Discharge
Dayton Electric MFG. CO.
Chicago 60648 USA

Liquid Dispersion and the Nugget Bucket

How does the GoldRush Nugget Bucket work, you ask? Here is my latest article that explores the bucket in some detail.
https://hubpages.com/games-hobbies/Nugget-Bucket-Concept-is-Golden

 

Gold's Distant Cousin - Pyrite

On a recent trip to the desert prospecting, I stumbled upon a glint in the sand. I was heading to an area when I caught a sharp flash in my left eye. Bending over for inspection, I found a small quartz pebble with what I first thought was gold.
As you have probably done in the past after the initial excitement, I discovered it only to be pyrite. I still think it is a pretty material, so I usually save it all anyway. Iron sulfide has made many a man a fool! There is a tiny vein of it diagonally and three distinct spots. Anyway, from Wikipedia -

Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue give it a superficial resemblance to gold, hence the well-known nickname of fool's gold. The color has also led to the nicknames brass, brazzle, and Brazil, primarily used to refer to pyrite found in coal.The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS₂ (iron(II) disulfide). Pyrite is considered the most common of the sulfide materials.

The name pyrite is derived from the Greek πυρίτης (pyritēs), "of fire" or "in fire",in turn from πύρ (pyr), "fire". In ancient Roman times, this name was applied to several types of stone that would create sparks when struck against steel; Pliny the Elder described one of them as being brassy, almost certainly a reference to what we now call pyrite.

By Georgious Agricola's time, c. 1550, the term had become a generic term for all of the sulfide minerals

Pyrite is usually found associated with other sulfides or oxides in quartz veins, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic, as well as in coal beds and as a replacement mineral in fossils, but has also been identified in the sclerites of scaly-foot gastropods. Despite being nicknamed fool's gold, pyrite is sometimes found in association with small quantities of gold. Gold and arsenic occur as a coupled substitution in the pyrite structure. In the Carlin-type gold deposits, arsenian pyrite contains up to 0.37% gold by weight.