Natural Green Jade With Gold

[Steve Herschbach]

having not had any of this tested i can't tell for certain what the metal mix is,

Hate to rain on this but it is almost certainly not gold. More likely pyrite inclusions. Really great stuff though, thanks for posting.

[Quick]

Cool looking stuff. I have never seen gold in jade before but I have seen it in serpentine.

[Quick]

I must add like Steve I highly doubt it is gold. Might be a sulfide or telluride though. What ever it is it is cool looking stuff.

[1515Art]

i'll try and find more about this jade, first I've seen it was yesterday afternoon and I don't even know what the rough stone sells for.

the jade is high quality and desirable material I'm sure, occasionally language and cultural factors confuse things a bit so it well could be some form of sulfide or something they call gold.

 

 

That is some top notch material. I would love to make some jewelry with it. If you could ever lead me to a source, I would be indebted. Thanks for sharing.

I have another friend visiting later this month and i will ask him to bring some if he has access to any, if i can get some i will send you a little piece.

[1515Art]

Steve, i wanted to ask you with regard to chrysoprase and other chalcedony, like quartz is it ever an indicator for locating an area likely to produce gold?

[beatup]

cool looking material

[Steve Herschbach]

Steve, i wanted to ask you with regard to chrysoprase and other chalcedony, like quartz is it ever an indicator for locating an area likely to produce gold?

 

Chris Ralph could no doubt answer in more detail but the short answer is something he said to me recently. The most abundant minerals in the earth's crust are the silicates and so quartz minerals in all their forms are virtually everywhere. Chrysoprase and other chalcedony are just massive or cryptocrystalline forms of silica. Not surprising then that where you find gold you tend to find quartz type minerals but unfortunately the reverse is not true. Very similar to the situation with magnetite, the most common black sand mineral. Since it is found almost everywhere you of course find it associated with gold, but there are countless locations with magnetite black sands where there is absolutely no gold.

[Tortuga]

Like it's been said many times before you find gold, where you find gold. Everything else is pretty subjective

[jasong]

Some cryptocrystalline silcates are occasionally associated with gold when they are mineralized in banded iron formations from my experience. I've (very rarely) found nuggets with dark red jasper inclusions and found layers or pods of it or chert in situ in abandoned gold mines.

 

I've seen chalcedony in layers in areas with gold bearing quartz veins and pockets but I've never found it directly included into (or vice versa) gold itself and it generally looks like it came later to me.

 

But like Steve says, it's everywhere. Associations might be concluded in very specific areas, but to use it as an indicator anywhere would probably test a person's patience. But if you find BIF and jasper or chert together you may want to give the area a closer look.