Little OT, but need some assistance with raw gold ore

eyoung429

Have a gallon bucket full from tailings, I live in Colorado and would like to have the contents assesed and get the most for the amount. Would like to have references.

Thanks!

GoldenEyeNumismatics

unless they're true bonanza tailings that's not going to be enough ore to be worth anything.

eyoung429

Most of it is easily seen with the naked eye...no flakes in the bucket

adamlaneus

Mine tailings? One gallon of tailings? Unless you have a plan to get many more tons where that came from, and can refine it economically, it's hard to imagine this is worth the effort. That's tailings; not high grade ore! Do you see metal?

Still, pretty rocks are pretty. Put them in your garden. When relatives come over, point to the gold!

AUandAG

Why not do it yourself? Plenty of ways to separate the gold from the rock if they are not pickers.
Crush the ore and pan or sluice the fines. Make a cheap sluice out of black 4 inch sewer drain. The
plastic kind with the ribs in it. Spoon your fines into the sluice with a little water running down. Set
the sluice at about a 45 degree angle. Run it all into a bucket (in case you need to start over or
redo).
Crushing the ore is the hard part. Rock tumbler with a couple of big solid rocks for banging against.
You can made one out of a metal 1 gal or 5 gal paint bucket with a good lid. Just build a little spinner
for tumbling the can.
Have fun as I doubt there's much to recover. Miners of old we pretty good at recovery. I've seen some
tailings that might be worth reworking but I'm talking thousands of tons of rock. At 62 I probably will
leave that to someone else!
bob

claychaser

Sounds like crushing and assaying it would be a great project for your YN to do for a science project!

And to save Dad the work.....

eyoung429

already removed most of the non-gold ore......started with a 50gal drum

PerryHall

For max return, sell individual pieces on eBay as old west gold ore paper weights/door stops.

JazzmanJAB

You could contact a local dental ceramic (dentures)office and ask them where they purchase their bullion, and try to sell it to them.