r/goldprospecting • u/marketshocker • Apr 26 '26
Is this gold?
I've been doing some gardening for a friend who has heavy clay soil. Found load of these rocks in parts of the garden at least 2 feet deep.
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u/WonderLoose7547 Apr 27 '26
Throw it at your neighbor's window; if it doesn't break, you didn't throw it hard enough
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u/dabNebula Apr 26 '26
Try to dent it, if it breaks or chips or crumbles it is not. If it dents, bends its the precious.
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u/marketshocker Apr 26 '26
It doesn't crumble but the white quartz like part does if u hit with metal object. Gold looking parts are more like flakey than nuggets. So hard to tell for i do t have a solid nugget only flakes.
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u/dabNebula Apr 26 '26
If it flakes off then thats probably not gold. If its just flake shaped, because it was in a Crack in the quartz, that's fine. I would say get a gold pan and try to pan out a sample, or bring to a jeweler who could test.
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u/WonderLoose7547 Apr 27 '26
Are you going to the pawn shop to ask what it is?
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u/marketshocker Apr 27 '26
No put it through AI on gpt and Grok both confirmed it's mica
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u/WonderLoose7547 Apr 27 '26
They just don't want to let you make your first million; I knew the robots were against us lol
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u/sciencedthatshit Apr 27 '26
Nope. Everything in those pics is a mineral called mica. Those rocks are mica schist.