what kind of rock is gold usually found in?

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What geographical formations should i be aware of while hiking? Where would i most likely find gold and why?

Answer 1

Gold is found mostly in volcanic rocks, but also be hosted in sedimentary or metamorphic rocks.
It occurs mostly in quartz veins that cut the host rock, and the host rock is usually altered to kaolinite (a type of clay), sericite (a white mica), and quartz.

So hints for a simple prospecting in hills or mountains while hiking, look for volcanic rocks, that are cut by quartz veins, that have altered the rock (change the mineralogy and hence the color). If it is red and yellowish or orange brown, it is a good sign, if it contains intense green color (copper oxides) and red color (hematite) is an excellent sign.
If it just a plain white quartz vein, that it may or may not have gold.
If you find pyrite (fools gold) it can be a good sign, since in many cases it may contain gold (but not always).

If you want to pan for gold, then you have go to a river bed and try your luck.

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what kind of rock is gold usually found in?
What geographical formations should i be aware of while hiking? Where would i most likely find gold and why?

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Where Gold Is Found

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Kind Of Rock

Answer 5

I think its with Quartz a lot.

Maybe do a bit of goldpanning and read about where gold is.

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Answer 6

quartz.....when looking for gold find a creek or small river and hike up it until you find a sandbar where the river turns....go to the sandbar and pan there.....without creeks and rivers there are no basic rules on what kind or rock gold is often found in.....just it is often found with quartz

Answer 7

Hard rock

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iron pyrites is usually refered to as "fools gold" and has a lustre like mica

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Answer 10

quartz normally