Separating gold/sand - Tips 'n' Tricks - Old Forum Archive - how do i recover gold fromfine milled quartz rock
gold is difficult to extract…I have very black naturally occurring concentrated beach sand and it looks as if there is micron gold dust but I'm not sure. I don't have the equipment to go any further than panning. This gold is flowing out of the pan with the heavies even after adding soap ( dawn). My magnet is picking up too much of the dust along with the magnetics.Answer (1 of 2): Black sand is often mostly magnetite. Get a good magnet and you can pull the magnetite out easily. Put a piece of paper over your magnet,
