>>637014Like the other anon said, quartz and gold occur together. What I know about silver/gold ore in quartz I learned from Mark Twain's book 'Roughing it' which he actually gives a pretty good description of the silver trade and process in.
Basically there's a good chance you could find gold or silver in the veins of quartz there, and if there's a river that you already found gold in you should look up the method 'fanning' in order to figure out if there's a trickle of gold coming out the mountains.
Some of the crystals are cut that way, they're called raw facet quality or gem quality before cut and are usually measured in karats. The others are generally terminated, termination occurs in a perfect environment underground, like I said before. It's a pretty neat thing that we can't really recreate aside from some minor shit in labs that turn out looking faceted. Natural termination is some crazy shit.
>>638037That means to the guy with 50 tourmaline on him worth several grand altogether they're probably worth less than 50 each, to 'the right person' who's never been to a real gem show or paid attention to stones, who mightve just been paid and laid and dosed on molly or whatever kids are taking-he might drop $200 dollars on the rubellite because it spoke to him.
Picture is some terminated peridot with rutile or whatever inclusion that is.
