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Gold/Mining/Energy : A New Age In Gold Refining -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael J. Wendell who wrote (590)	2/7/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: JACK R. SMITH JR.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 672

Mike, I really do not know how to ask this question, but I will try. I passed by an area today here in the North part of Arkansas where a gravel company is excavating. I noticed some dark deposits which seemed to be on the outer surface of other rocks and dug out a few samples. It appeared in the cut-face of the deposit as a darker surface. When I observed the rocks, they all seemed to be coated on the outside by this dark (very black) deposit. It is flaky and very heavy in the hand. The general deposit looks like iron or aluminum in that it is generaly red or pink, but has lots of lighter and darker intrusions. I took a piece of the dark stuff and placed it on a block of wood and hit it with my torch and it popped and fractured and then formed a ball of glass like structure which looked metallic on the outside, but felt light to the touch. Have you any idea what I am dealing with here, and if you do not, how can I find out. I am intrigued by it and have no idea how to approach it. Jack