My misses has in the passed got talking about gold prospecting with one of her clients the next time she see him he pull this ripper out blood nice hey
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Ooh…That’s a purdy piece! Very nice specimen.
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Wow that is a cracker//I knew they were found in similar areas but I didn’t know Jade could be a direct host rock for gold… very cool!
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Same here Mal i was wondering how rare it was apparently my missus asked if it was for sale but because it was gifted or u cant sale greenstone it was a no go
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It is a stunning piece but it doesn’t look like greenstone. What’s the purple colour? And the white looks like quartz.
JW 
The missus says there is no purple and the purple in the photo is the flash but hey who know still look like pudding yummy
Looks even less like greenstone in that pic. 
JW
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Its not greenstone. Not even close sadly
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Oh well im not a expert just telling the story my missus got told 
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Its still a cracker of a rock specimen
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Cinnabar crossed my mind too seeing that last pic. Plenty of it in the Coromandel. Not that I found any. I wouldn’t have thought native gold would be with cinnabar though. Being the ore of mercury. Apparently if you heat cinnabar over fire in a shovel beads of mercury will sweat out of it.
JW
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Was that due to the mercury, or unrelated?
JW
There was cinnabar at Waitahuna Heights at Waipori.probably by far the richest cinnabar in NZ. I have seen cinnabar from several locations but the Waipori cinnabar was by far the most soectacular.
The mine was owned by the Nobels Explosive Company of Glasgow at one stage l think.
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No surprises…there is mercury in nevis gold too!
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Is it actually in the gold or is the gold just coated with spilt/lost mercury from gold recovery methods? A lot of mercury coated gold can be found down stream from old stamper setups in hard rock gold areas up in them thar hills.
JW
Im not an expert by any stretch but i always understood nevis and nokomai gold had mercury within it. That was supported by a paper by Youngston i recall too
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Wow thats a nice one