Natural Crystal Gold - Discover the Incredible Beauty of Rare and Fantastic forms of Gold!
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Few people know that gold forms beautiful crystals and that these natural crystal forms of gold are the most valuable gold specimens. Crystal gold specimens can be worth from 2 to 50 times the bullion value of the gold in it. In this video, I talk all about gold formed in crystal shapes and all the different types of crystalline gold. These crystals are all natural and form in the ground under the right geologic conditions.
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Good to see you again. Great stuff
Hey, thanks! More to come!
Thanks for all your posts! I enjoy watching and your delivery is fun & engaging but also to the point. Brilliant work!
I appreciate that! Glad you like them!
Gorgeous shapes and amazing comments...great informations-THANK YOU
Glad you like them!
Thank you for another good video. I love seeing all the specimens and hearing there history. I have a small collection.
Glad you enjoyed it
I enjoyed this. Thanks for giving information about such beauty.
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Fascinating! I hadn’t heard of crystalline gold before. Thank you 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
The crystalline gold that came out of the Diltz mine in Midpines was far and away the most amazing I've ever seen.
The Diltz and the Colorado and several others in that district were big producers of beautiful gold.
Thanks for sharing this.
I am lucky enough to have found a crystalline gold myself that I found in Victoria and was lucky enough to have video on a live video..
Have a wonderful weekend.
Cheers Famo59 👍🍻⛏🤓🇦🇺
That is great! I have found some pretty crystal gold pieces myself.
@@ChrisRalph awesome
Wow. This is just amazing. Thank you so much for posting this. I did not know gold could be even more beautiful!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ChrisRalph I’m hoping you can go to Alaska again for prospecting - I’m hoping to go as well (once I get into better shape). I was very sorry to read about the accident and I hope you are fully recovered now. Best regards.
One of these days but nothing in particular is planned.
I enjoyed this episode of Crystalline gold is the most beautiful and valuable form of gold - I explain all about crystal gold.
I have read your book and can say it has a wealth of information and probably more information than many readers would expect.
Thanks for the kind words.
There’s a lot of new logging roads and road work where I live in Montana and it’s going right through the mountains I live by there’s a lot of quartz’s along the road I’m going metal detecting and hopefully I’ll find gold I learnt alot from your videos and I’m going to try out your secrets thank you 😊 buddy
Best of luck to you in your efforts.
@@ChrisRalph how do I know if I have gold crystals I have numerous crystals with gold on them
@@Camera_man12355watch his video again or get his book. Crystalline gold has a distinctive shape among the vugs and drippy hackley habit.😊
Ty sir. I’m currently in Quartzite Arizona and am searching. Thanks for your energies. I appreciate you! WalkINBeauty
Best of luck!
I love crystalline and crystallized gold!
Of course you do!!! See you at the Pomona show in July.
We got into a large vug at a mine i was involved with in Southern Nevada. Had some be-Au-tiful crystalline gold in it. Of course you are right about the price difference. Excellent video.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I would love to make my way there some day.ilove rock hounding and it sounds amazing!!
@@ChrisRalph I really truly did!thank you!
A wonderful vid of things I had no idea about.
Nature has such beauty we aren’t aware of. Thanks. * New Sub btw
Thanks and welcome
The specimen that’s yours is very cool and a great find congrats I would spend at least a couple weeks looking at it with a loop after I found it lol great information thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks! Will do!
Loopy too here!
i never knew about crystalline gold it must be rush finding a piece wow beautiful!!!!
Few people know about it.
Fascinating chris! Like a horse trader, you well know the product!
Glad you liked it!
Hi Chris thanks for the update information gold crystals formations
No problem 👍 Glad it was helpful.
Enjoyed and learned something new about gold.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I live in upper peninsula with copper crystals.this was a great learning experience. as I still l love to see,and learn about crystals. your a very pleasant teacher.i hope to be make my way to some gold country someday.thank you for sharing.:)
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm hoping to start my own channel and get busy finding my way to gold country!maybe you have tips for me when I get out that way.😎
Great Video !!!!!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
i was unaware the basic crystal shape for gold was octahedron (four sided pyramid to pyramid) thanks chris, you taught me something new. i will have to take a better look at some of my fine gold to see if there are any particles with crystalline shapes.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Wow, your friend definitely got his money's worth for that HF he used on that specimen
It’s so beautiful to see inside of quartz.
It is truly beautiful stuff.....
Thank you for this valuable information. Thanks💰
Glad it was helpful!
Can you explain the method of electrodeposition of cyanide solution.
like round mountain nevada gold clusters, rye patch as well, the crystal shapes have well defined flats and corners
Yep.
"ONYA MATE"VERY VERY INTERESTING.I never heard about this b4.lookin forward To your next uploads.⛏️
Much appreciated
thank you for the nice video and i found a veni crystal with gold around it and inside the crystal
Good job!
8:26 looks like the rolls royce symbol on the bonnet. Beautiful pieces of gold. THANKS great stuff.🥂👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it.
Awsome video, I had not seen this info explained with images , that really helped ,quick question why aren't there videos about other profitable ore out there with lots of picture examples with the prices of so many various metals climbing to potential profitable situations if one was more aware of the simple things , i just dont see the videos out there , ok cool thanks again for the great video
Glad it was helpful!
I strongly recommend the book. It is well worth it.
Thanks for the kind words....
Good info. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice presentation, my father and I mined in the Colorado Mining District for crystalline gold for many years.
Very cool!
You must have found some if you did it for years.
Grate information thank you
Glad it was helpful!
You can really see the difference in the gold from were it came from . California and Nevada gold is really bright and pure , here in Oregon on my claim that is more or less in the cascades , the gold is not as bright and a lot of it has been alloyed with silver . I have found some electrum as well witch is gold and silver alloyed together . The last rams horn that you showed you could see that it probably has some silver mixed in with it . I also noticed that the gold from Arizona is kinda darker that some places . Very cool stuff , wish I would have taking geology and made a career out of it !
Glad you enjoyed the video.
This is awesome . I love seeing how the crystals are unique yet obviously all made of the same shape. That last piece is fricken amazing.
Is your friends name Dave? Cause Dave shows a "cleaning" process with a continuity tester and some other stuff . When he is done ,there is the crystal gold structure and some matrix to have it stand up.
Is there wire pyrite? Cause I have this dolostone with lots of tiny pyrite crystals . On the edges of the pyrite clusters ,there are a few wires the size of 2 day chin stubble.
Yes, my friend's name is Dave, and I think you are looking at his videos of cleaning.
@@ChrisRalph yeah, I have seen a couple.
Very nice and Blessings finding some more. I'm at the bottom of the Appalachian Mtns. It's mostly ore from what I've heard. But some of the most beautiful vegetation grows in metamorphic rock...
OK.
Wow amazing
Glad to know that you enjoyed the video.
Lovely ❣
Thanks 🤗
I've had the pleasure of finding a few crystalline gold specimens and nuggets. NorthWest Bank in Helena Montana used to have a gold display years ago that had some fantastic wire gold specimens and wire 'nests' from Alder gulch and Last Chance gulch. Had to edit. The one from Alder gulch was that ramshorn gold. Looked like someone squeezed it out of a toothpaste tube.
The crystal gold specimens are indeed really beautiful.
The Golden Bear is my favorite. My uncle sketched the bear used in Mark Twain's "Roughing It". When asked if he was jealous that Mark Twain wrote a better account of going west he said, "No but I am upset that he made more on my sketch than I did!". He was a postal carrier, a wild west mailman.
That's a great story.
thanks for the video quick question though will pyrite send us signal off to the middle detector
sometimes.
Exquisite Specimens !
They really are pretty nice.
@@ChrisRalph Yes, wonders of the natural world "
Hay. Just a possible idea. But how about a video or series of videos about what's it like at the various popular clubs ( gold prospecting clubs ) what they are like, if members are happy, the cost to join.
I did do a video on clubs 2 years ago. I did not try to survey everyone or post costs to join (because these change over time). Take a look: ua-cam.com/video/LU_FgdkFeTA/v-deo.html
cool thanks
No problem!
I enjoyed your video on crystalline gold. I have specimens from the leadville, CO district, as well as a particularly nice telluride from the Cripple creek area. Would you be interested in pictures ? I would appreciate your opinions.
Thank you
Steve S.
Thanks for sharing! I get many requests every day to evaluate photos, do training, advise, etc. I have too many other commitments, projects and obligations of my own. So, sorry I do not offer any photo evaluation service.
Very nice video sir. Can crystaline gold be found around the world where "normal" nuggets are found, or is it in certain areas/contrys ?
It can be, but it is not always found in all places.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you for your reply, and thanks again for an interesting video. Subscribed.
thanks ❤️
You're welcome 😊
Got ur book , migrated to the USA 1998 and I’ll tell something I’m not working for the money they want to pay people here 300 pesos daily it comes to 20 dollars , conclusion I’m in La Sierra Madre in uruapan and by the coast in Michoacán and thanks to you found silver and gold in quartz in on relatives property chinos were mining for iron And you know all the minerals that comes in those types of minerals deposits , glad I found u god bless u buddy.
Thanks, congratulations on your success.
Can we make gold crystals ourselves?? Gonna have to look into it! That would be awesome.
It is theoretically possible. Easy to grow tiny ones, much more difficult to grow large ones.
Alchemy
watching this could Definitely get gold fever.
Yep - that is the point!
Hello my respect to your priceless knowledge on prospecting. I have acquired some very nice specimens like the ones you have on this video however i need to clean the gunk that its covered with. How would you recommed i don't that without altering the form of looking like coral reef
Not knowing what the specimens are or what the gunk on them actually is, I would have no idea what to use. Start with dish soap and water.
@@ChrisRalph it came from a geothermal deposit . If there was a way to send you a specimen i would gladly do so at my expense . I have tried soap and water after having soaked then in vinegar also. And it diminished the grayish chalky gunk. I even tried tumbling them in a solution of salt and vinegar with steel beads as a tumbling medium but it did not leave them crystalline . They are interesting specimen and very heavy. So if you would be interested in a piece so you are able to pick it apart i can send it to you? Because i know photos wont due no justice.
Sorry, I get so many of these requests that I can't offer private consulting, advise, training, or other personal service.
thank for sharing i saw a couple of those pieces id love to have found cause id never be able to afford them or really even find them hear in Hawaii do you know if their is gold in hawaiis volcanism ladscape across the islands cause ive got some time aloha .
Sorry, no gold in the volcanic rocks of Hawaii. Only jewelry on the beaches.
Good video Chris. I’ve found several pieces of crystaline gold over the years. We hit one spot that had leaf gold with trangle crystal forms on them and another spot a few miles away that was all wire gold. One of my pieces had a small quarts crystal in it that has a piece of gold in the crystal.
That is awesome!
that must of been a rush did even know the stuff existed lol
can you do about the method: growing crystal from solution please
Here is my video on growing crystals: ua-cam.com/video/yONY4PfN56g/v-deo.html
Chris what are your thoughts on gold in slate?
Gold - quartz veins occur in slate sometimes. Is that what you meant?
My mom had one like this as a necklace. I had no idea it was natural.
Natural and beautiful.
I've found quarts that partial translucent and dark,and real heavy
OK. Quartz is not gold.
Help me out burned wood with rocks from creek for potash it had gold aluminum foil looking
4 or 7?
This is a interesting video. Thank you..my main question is just too tuff to write. Something about how would you find them in mines while mining with all the rocks around it. I guess it comes down to just being double lucky . 1st finding the gold in the first place and 2nd some how stumbling on the cristal gold.
A lot is found with metal detectors. The stuff from underground is just lucky finds, often guided with metal detectors.
copper crystals have dirt that kind of protects the crystals beneath the dirt.its kind of funny the way they grow and can have quarts and other minerals around the copper crystals.very cool 😎
Is there a way I can send you a picture to see if I have anything valuable or not? And I find your videos very informative.
I get so many request like this - I simply do not have the time, so I do not offer a photo evaluation service.
Ok thanks
Chris I love your videos I found in Nevada area a black like tar and there were in my opinion had fool's gold and real gold attached to this Black Rock do you have a clue of what I'm talkin about I have asked several people and got no response please respond thank you
I would to send you a pic of a couple of different specimens that I found in the same area that are quite different but I'm sure has gold in it
I wish you the best of luck in your prospecting efforts but I get many requests for help, training, evaluations, mineral ID. etc. every day. There simply is not enough time as I have many projects and commitments of my own. This is why I do not offer a service to consult and do all the things I am asked to do every day.
If it was mentioned in the video, I missed it -- some nice wire gold has come out of Washington, also, at Liberty.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Chris, Are there alloys like Silver or Copper in crystal Gold or does it grow crystal in just 24k grade?
There is no such thing as natural 24K gold. All natural gold has impurities, including crystal gold. Much crystalline gold is 85% to 90% pure.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you, that's good to know.
Ok, I'm ready, need to make a road trip!
You should!
@@ChrisRalph I'm gonna have a busy summer, I've been building acoustic guitars and have to deliver one in Seattle next month, then I have a real estate matter to settle in Mexico, then I'm planning a southwest trip ending in Nevada.
Does gold get dull,wen silver and platium is growing around d the golg?
Most gold is dull.
Muito ouro show
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have some really high grade gold ore specimens I've found over the years and I really want to get them dipped in cyanide to get these specimens to the highend grade show pieces that I know than can be. My question is there any company or persons, I can take it to get this done, or anyone you highly recommend for this type of service Cyanide is something that is too scary for me to even have in my possession. I live on east cost in northern Virginia but definitely can travel. Also a separate question do you have a company or persons you recommend to do fire assay on gold ore. I've encountered so many frauds online and locally to me its ridiculous. Anyways just want to say thank you for all the awesome and informative videos you've made,
I know of no one who offers a service like that. You might talk with Dave Varabioff of Gold Bay (use Google to find his contact info). He does the specimens he sells, but I have no idea if he might do such a thing as a service. For all my own assays, I use ALS Minerals. They are at 4977 Energy Way. Reno NV 89502.
Thanks Chris for the responses.
Hi CHRIS , MY fellow GOLD FEVER FRIEND :) … Ty for another great video & info .. I would LOVE TO SHOW YOU THESE rock conglomerates I have found near by my place .. crushed form rocks & some retain fossils .. near by railroads in the mid NY area - . And it’s brought in feom a distance location as said R.R. Worker .. it’s so very similar to your GOLD ORE FROM S. Africa you show in your yT video of gold ore . Pls reply if ever you have the time or chance I’d love to get your input sir . Ok ty and stay smart ..
The conglomerate rock is a very common type of rock found in many thousands of places all over the world. Only one in a million have gold in them - almost all are barren of gold. I wish you the best of luck in your efforts but I get many requests for help, training, evaluations, mineral ID. etc. every day. There simply is not enough time as I have many projects and commitments of my own. This is why I do not offer a service to consult and do all the things I am asked to do every day.
Breccia can have up to 50% gold as well as scarn. But breccia looks like conglomerate but it's breccia which is an indicator mineral. Au Crystals can be within other rocks that cool and crystalize more slowly. I found one! Not done cleaning it yet... And learning how to clean it!
If you had a piece that you thought might be this what would you do to find out if it is ?
First make sure its really gold.
is there any way that I can send you pictures of my stones and let me know what if you believe they're crystalline gold
I wish you the best of luck in your efforts but I get many requests for help, training, evaluations, mineral ID. etc. every day. There simply is not enough time as I have many projects and commitments of my own. This is why I do not offer a service to consult and do all the things I am asked to do every day.
Chris
Beautiful 22 gramer came out of north west Arizona last week where I go. He's on a different claim where they're coming from though, and he will shoot.
Just a nice nugget or was it crystalline?
QUESTION!! WOULD GOLD CRYSTAL BE DELICATE, AND FRAGILE, AND BRITTLE? UNLIKE A NUGGET? AND WHAT ABOUT PURPLE COLOR IN A CRYSTAL?
Yes, a crystal gold specimen can be fragile. No, crystalline gold is not purple, and not all things which are fragile are gold.
@@ChrisRalph well it's the same color as 24 karat gold jewelry, and iridescent purple in a few spots. Can pyrite crystals be the same color as gold? THANKS BTW!! Love you channel!!
Generally speaking, pyrite has a greenish cast that gold does not. That said, gold with unusually large amounts of silver can take on a greenish cast. So while normally gold and pyrite are not exactly the same color, in some cases gold can be the same color as pyrite. That is why color is not a good test. Much better is to give the suspected gold sample a good hard whack with a hammer. Pyrite is brittle and will shatter, while gold is malleable and will flatten down.
Is gold always shinny?what if the stone is half pointed like a pyramid
No, Most gold is dull.
watched this video so many times lol
Its beautiful and valuable.
Maybe in the next video you can show me how to grow some gold?
Be already did that.... Hydrothermal vent, hot mineral solution, gold is combined with sulfur in that solution, it finds metallic or oxide of iron in the ground and the iron and sulfur try to swap places . The sulfur interacts with the iron , leaves a layer of sulfer and gold and the hot solution then removes the sulfur back from that iron ,leaving a deposit of gold and iron and whatever else dropped out of that solution while the sulfer and iron were playing and dropping the gold . This is SUPER basic ...but I'm no professional , I'm just a nerd who likes to search for precious metals, gems and minerals.
@@coreymerrill3257 okay cool I'll look for it and try to grow me some gold!!! 🌱🌱🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙🪙💰
Of course you need gold to grow crystals of gold.
@@coreymerrill3257 if there was an infographic I might understand this it sounds so cool
How about lincoln cal.
There is gold at Lincoln California.
Excuse me sir can I get you to look a a sample???? Its definitely different....
I wish you the best of luck in your prospecting efforts but I get many requests for help, training, evaluations, mineral ID. etc. every day. There simply is not enough time as I have many projects and commitments of my own. This is why I do not offer a service to consult and do all the things I am asked to do every day.
Very interesting. So gold is a crystal?
Yes, it is! Not what you would expect, is it.
nice news
Glad to know that you enjoyed the video.
Can all elements form crystal structures?
Yes, under the right conditions. Gasses have to be cooled until they become solids. Crystals of water are why snowflakes are 6 sided hexagons.
@@ChrisRalph I'm having a hard time comprehending how molecular stacking can create the same patterns on each side of the crystal structure. How is it that snowflakes are symmetrical or diamonds are even octahedrons?
Atoms and molecules have a preferred, and most efficient way of stacking. How they stack in the tiny scale atomic world is expressed in the large scale world as the crystals you see.
How much did that massive nugget weigh?
Not sure which one you are referring to......
@@ChrisRalph The one at 3:52
what is there not to love about gold ay?
Its really pretty and eye-catching stuff!
I found a triangular nugget
OK.
The Corinthian
Not really sure what you mean.
Same way you'd do a silver cell I'd imagine
sort of but not exactly the same.
@@ChrisRalph I don't think I've ever seen that but have seen videos on the silver cell. That's the only way I could think of growing any. Unless you take a gold in solution and maybeit evaporate kinda like making rock candy lol. I'm an auto tech not a chemist haha
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Glad you enjoyed it.
@@ChrisRalph yes sir a lot
diamond crystals are icosahedral, not octahedral.
Diamonds (and gold) crystalize in the isometric (cubic) crystal system. The most common form of diamond crystal is the octahedron.
You take me go look for a gold ok.
Sorry, no.
Money metal
Yes, it is.
i wand gold nuggets like chicken nuggets! not crap that looks like christmas trees lol
4 of 10
@@ChrisRalph on a serious note, i wonder if the gold you show had any influence on the building of the great pyramids of the world? especially if you buy into the version of history of humans being made as a slave by the Annunaki to mine gold for them? perhaps it was the alien race of Annunaki who actually built the pyramids🤔
Sign me up.
not really sure what you mean.
It did not become alluvial , crystalline gold.
Your meaning is unclear.
Images are photographs not pictures. Blame our education system from the mid 1950s onward.
Remember that everything in that video is a photograph of something or a video of something. Even the drawing of the gold crystals is a picture of the pages of a book. The definition of "Image" is: An image is an artifact that depicts visual perception, such as a photograph or other two-dimensional picture. - note the use of both of the words "photograph" and "picture" in the definition of "image".
there's loads of this crap down the south of my country, UK, in cornwall i threw shit loads of it into the sea a few years back
If you threw away loads of gold, you are not very bright. Luckily it was likely pyrite that you could not tell the difference.
@@ChrisRalph no it was definitely gold sticking out the quartz like snow ❄️ i would’ve kept the pyrite lol 😂
@@ChrisRalph there wasn’t enough there to make a grill for a budgie could show you where there is more but would take ages to collect all that, i like finding nuggets personally
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glad you enjoyed it.
The New Jerusalem Celestial City is made with Translucent Gold. Could the crystalize Gold be what they use. Asking for those that believe the bible!
Its transparent, not translucent, and that is not normal gold like we think of gold, so I have no idea of its crystal properties.
The person at 15:40 should have taken a better picture. The beauty of the gold is ruined by those crusty hands. Someone needs to photoshop that out.
If you had something like that in your hands, you would not want to let go.
Can’t anyone with certain skills make a fake crystalline gold?
its extremely difficult to grow large crystals. The earth takes thousands of years to do the natural ones.
was gonna go ,didnt sleep good next weekend 15. club outing. by barstow. see what happens. takes a lot of practice with the gold monster. have a good day
Best of luck to you.
@@ChrisRalph 👍👍👍
Any luck?
@@christopherfritz.bigsaving saw others get some gold. dome times good some. time just a good time