Gold Plated Rock

[Gravelwasher]

  Had a great time out with a good friend and great prospector yesterday.

1st target was a pc of bird shot with Minelab Gpx 6k and stock mono coil.

 2nd target was a 2.3 gram jelly bean nugget;))  Then came the onslaught of fencing and wire plus more bird shot.

 Second pc of gold was in a clod of hard pack mud and rock. The 1st glint of gold was a pc of slate rock that did not signal over the coil but had visible gold, in the scoop was also a small nugget that rang out over the coil. I think the 2 pcs were smashed together for a very long time and the gold imprinted onto the rock.

What do you all think of this, any ideas, ever seen this before?

 

[beatup]

interesting find

[Valens Legacy]

Very nice find, it must have been as thin as flour gold or a rubbing.

When panning I have found some of the flour gold won't give a signal unless there is a concentration of it in the pan.

Gold is gold so keep it.

Good luck on your next outing.

[klunker]

 OK. since nobody else will explain your strange gold specimen, I guess I'll have to do it.

It appears to me to be gold formed hydro thermally in a cryogenic non conformity of porphyry in a dot matrics and deposited sometime in the late Precambrian or early Truman administration and  commonly known as a rarity yet quite frequently found with Minelab GPX6000 detectors set at 12 degrees before top dead center. 

 I hope you enjoyed finding it as much as I enjoy making a fool of myself.