Interior The master suite offers a desk for keeping up with work email and a comfortable sofa for enjoying the mountain views. Interior Main level bathroom with walk-in shower.
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Interior Bedroom with full bed and mountain views.
Interior Washer/Dryer and ironing board/iron. Interior Full bathroom attached to queen suite with tub/shower. Interior Charming decor gives this historic property a chic and modern feel. Interior Queen suite with queen bed, flatscreen TV, and attached bathroom. Interior Galley style kitchen for when you don't want to walk the block and a half to the downtown restaurant scene.
Interior Plenty of storage space in the french door refrigerator. Interior Stainless steel appliances and a gas range make this an excellent kitchen for the chef in the group. Interior Plenty of seating to enjoy a family meal. Interior Entry way to this historic home. Interior A gas fireplace keeps the home warm in the winter months and provides a great mountain atmosphere. Interior Mountain views of Breckenridge Ski Resort from the living area. Interior Comfortable couch is the perfect place to watch your favorite shows. However, slight pressure with a pin can break the flake of mica, but a tiny flake of gold will bend around the pin.Exterior Interior Living area with chic modern furniture. After chasing the tiny, highly lustrous flake, they think that it might be gold.
This most often occurs when an inexperienced person is panning for gold and sees a bright flash in their gold pan. Many people are surprised that flakes of biotite or phlogopite mica can fool people into thinking that they are gold. It is easy to separate pyrite and pyrrhotite because pyrrhotite is magnetic, is much softer, and if you can see crystals they will be a very different shape. It has a high specific gravity, often has a brassy color, and a distinctly metallic luster. Pyrrhotite is an iron sulfide mineral with a chemical composition of Fe (x-1)S. Chalcopyrite also has a greenish black streak. It has a lower hardness than pyrite (3.5 to 4) and a lower specific gravity than pyrite (4.1 to 4.3), but the same tests can separate chalcopyrite from gold. Chalcopyrite (a copper iron sulfide) has very similar properties to pyrite. Other Minerals Can Fool You!Ĭhalcopyrite and small pieces of biotite or phlogopite mica can fool you. This photograph is by Scott Horvath of the United States Geological Survey. The gold-colored mineral in this rock is chalcopyrite, and a person could determine that it is not gold by poking the gold-colored material with a pin and observing if it dents or breaks. Be careful if you think that you might have a valuable gold specimen.Ĭhalcopyrite in Dolomite and Quartz: Gold-colored minerals can be tested even if they are embedded in a rock. So, we have separated the tests into "destructive tests" and "non-destructive tests". That premium value can be ruined by some of the tests explained below. However, any piece of gold with a nice crystal habit will have a premium value - often worth several times the value of its contained gold. However, wise people obtain a couple small pieces of pyrite and a couple small pieces of gold and use them to gain valuable experience.ĬAUTION: All pieces of gold are valuable. They can usually be done successfully by inexperienced people. Here are a few simple tests that almost anyone can use to tell the difference between pyrite and gold. This photo was taken by Carlin Green of the United States Geological Survey. Destructive tests should not be done on specimens of gold that display a crystalline habit or specimens of no trivial size that have an attractive appearance. The value of this specimen to collectors of crystalline gold would be many times the value of its contained gold. This specimen is visually appealing and displays the crystalline habit of gold. Crystalline Gold: A specimen of native gold from Pontes e Lacerda, Mato Grosso, Brazil, approximately 3.5 centimeters tall.
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