Could someone show me a picture of a gold vein?

Question

I'm kind of interested in how they look. Please point out the vein from the rest of the rock.

Answer 1

Here's some I found:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53784964@N0...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23573205@N0...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_mining

This is interesting:

http://www.nma.org/technology/gold_produ...

Answer 2

http://www.minerals.net/mineral/elements...

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/Home/Sc...

Answer 3

http://rotapan.com/rmine.htm

http://rockhoundblog.com/wp-content/uplo...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53784964@N0...

http://geology.com/minerals/gold.shtmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/thirnbeck/2...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertlz/16...

Gold occuring in quartz veins can look like gold or be grey because of silver content.

The veins I have seen were very narrow stripes of quartz in the surrounding rock and had little gold in them in the area of Lake City, Colorado. Most were worked some during a gold rush but few were ever very profitable in that area to my knowledge and were abondoned.  

Answer 4

Yes, I can.

http://www.carsonstravels.us/Colorado%20...

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/...

http://www.mineralatlas.com/mineral%20ph...

If you want to see more pictures go to here:

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&nd...