Yes gold can be found in quartz.
Gold flakes in quartz rock.
Dry and place your genuine gold nuggets and any gold dust you find and extract from quartz rocks into small glass vials for storage and for subsequent gold assaying metals analysis refining display or sale.
You can extract gold from quartz rock that contains veins of gold.
Pan break up and re pan finer and finer fractions.
When gold is still encased in quartz rock it is called a gold specimen.
In some cases you may be able to see small masses of gold within quartz but much of it is invisible to the naked eye.
In most gold ore the gold is present in tiny specs either within minerals like pyrite or spread out free among the quartz.
It nestles in the veins lines or cracks in quartz and will appear as small particles or scales.
Hard rock mining also known as lode mining is obviously the best method for finding gold specimens since you are mining the true source of the gold by following veins of high grade ore into the mountain.
The photo at left shows small particles of metallic gold in quartz taken from the mountains of canada.
However you ll need to crush the quartz to access the gold.
Normally even good rich gold ore has no gold metal which is visible to the naked eye.
This chunk of vein quartz from mariposa is typical of gold quartz material from the mother lode district of california.
3 use a sledgehammer to break the rock into smaller pieces.