Real Gold Rock Pictures

Gold can look many different ways in nature but it is important to know the difference between gold and the other minerals.

Real gold rock pictures.

There are lots of gold colored rocks out there that could be a variety of different minerals. To extract the gold the ore is. One of the ways to find raw gold begins with panning for it in creeks or rivers fed by eroded gold from mine or natural deposits in rock formations above the water sources. Pyrite mica and a variety of other minerals are most commonly confused with actual gold.

Much of the gold mined is actually from gold ore rather then actual gold specimens. These rocks are almost never real gold. If the quartz sticks to the magnet then it contains iron pyrite or fool s gold. Once you have seen a few pictures of real gold it is pretty easy to distinguish from the other stuff.

Most people think of nuggets and such but the truth is that very little comes from nuggets nearly all newly mined gold comes from ores mined from the natural hard rocks that contain gold in tiny even microscopic particles. All of the pictures on this page are real genuine natural gold nuggets. The ore is often brown iron stained rock or massive white quartz and usually contains only minute traces of gold. To identify gold inside of a piece of quartz hold a magnet against the rock.

Gold nuggets are all somewhat different. If you re interested in rock collecting you know that rocks you find in the real world rarely look like the polished specimens you see you rock shops or museums. While each piece can look quite a bit different it s pretty easy to know what real gold looks. In fact actual pieces of gold ore doesn t usually look shiny.

A copper penny and a tiny gold nugget on a black streak plate with a small streak made by the nugget. Check out some of the pictures throughout our website of the various gold nuggets and gold specimens. The tiny nugget weighs 0 0035 troy ounce and at a gold price of 1200 ozt the nugget if it were pure gold would have a gold value of 4 20. They can vary quite a bit not only in shape and texture but also in purity and brightness.

The color of pure gold is bright golden yellow but the greater the silver content the whiter its color is. Gold and silver are obtained from a variety of ores. Placer gold roughly 75 to 95 percent real gold comes in a variety of shapes and sizes from small flakes to large bumpy nuggets. The copper penny is in the photo to serve as a scale.