Description
Finding Gold in Quartz. One way that gold prospectors look for gold is too try and locate its source, the place where to gold forms in the earth.
Gold in quartz veins occurs as particles and scales scattered through the quartz, often filling cracks and openings in the vein material. The gold can be such small particles as to be invisible to the naked eye, or as larger aggregates of easy to see blobs, leaves and crystals in cavities in the quartz. The gold fills cracks and spaces in the quartz as the ascending gold-bearing solutions infiltrate the existing quartz vein, filling in the last remaining openings.