Some aren't worth saving,
Crush E'm



This started as a large specimen I found in Lost Basin, AZ.
 It screamed when I got the coil over it. A large shallow
 nugget, they're still out there!



It was always kind of ugly and not a lot of gold showing. Here I
cut off half of the quartz on Linda's rock saw.



I decided to sacrifice it to do a specific gravity test on a real nugget.
Here I weighed the specimen and it came to 25.1 pennyweight.



Next I got the displaced water weight of 8.3 pennyweight suspended
from a string not touching anywhere.

Then using my formula for specific gravity

Weight of gold   is equal to     ( dry weight   x  1.16 )  minus  ( wet weight  x  3.07 )

dry weight 25.1  x  1.16  =  29.116  pennyweight

wet weight   8.3  x  3.07  =  25.481 pennyweight

29.116  minus 25.481  equals  3.635 pennyweight of gold in specimen

So let's find out for sure.




I got out my mortar and pedestal and crushed it to smithereens.



This is what it looks like all crushed up, notice the two large
nuggets that emerged.



Next I panned it out in water and here's the gold.



Last thing to do is weigh it real time and see how much gold I got.
There's a little quartz dust in the mix but it still weighed in at
3.9 pennyweight not far off I'd say from the
calculated 3.65 pennyweight.

It works!



Back to Bill and Linda's