They can usually be done successfully by inexperienced people.
Difference between rocks with gold in them.
Compare these to most of the shiny gold rocks on ebay and you will see the obvious differences between them.
Use the same process to identify the rocks and crystals using the internet.
Also search for rock crystal or rock and crystal identification websites.
Find the one that looks most like the crystal in your rock.
In fact the piece with gold colored particles inside may even be lighter than your other piece of quartz if the gold is not real.
In geology pictures of rocks can be used to help you best determine which of the three major types a particular rock belongs to.
Carefully examine the rock s crystals and compare them to the pictures in the book.
However wise people obtain a couple small pieces of pyrite and a couple small pieces of gold and use them to gain valuable experience.
A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic element or compound having an orderly internal structure and characteristic chemical composition crystal form and physical properties.
Igneous sedimentary or metamorphic.
All pieces of gold are valuable.
Common minerals include quartz feldspar mica amphibole olivine and calcite a rock is an aggregate of one or more minerals or a body of undifferentiated mineral matter.
By comparing your rock sample with photographic examples you can identify key characteristics such as how the rock was formed what minerals and other materials it contains and where the rock may have come from.
There is still plenty of real gold out.
Here are a few simple tests that almost anyone can use to tell the difference between pyrite and gold.
The character of the rock which the vein traverses is often variable for the gold bearing veins appear in either igneous or sedimentary rocks sometimes at the contact zone between igneous and sedimentary rocks little influenced by the character of the rock which the vein traverses save in the case of replacement.