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hit it with a hammer: if it shatters its fools gold, if it flattens it is probably gold.

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Q: How can you test a rock for gold to make sure it isn't fools gold?
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What is fools gold rock made of?

Fools gold is known as iron pyrite


What is pyrite rock?

Its another name for fools gold


What rock is mostly out of iron?

fools gold (Iron pyrite)


How can I tell that fool's gold is apart of metallic yellow?

Fools gold will float. Gold will break if you hit it against a rock.


How did a miner tell the difference between real gold and fools gold in the great horn spoon?

They would smash it with a rock.


Types of rock?

geode, pirite (fools gold), obsidion, quartz


What is an example of fools gold?

There isn't much for examples of fools gold in everyday items that you have in your house. About the only thing i can think of besides looking at a piece of fools gold in pictures on the internet or at a local rock shop or museum would be to crumple some tinfoil up and color it a dark gold. Where you see the small, almost square patterns in the tinfoil is a bit like fools gold. Iron Pyrite, this minerals metalic luster and pale brass-yellow hue have earned it the the nickname "fools gold" because of its resemblance to gold.


Is it true if there is fools gold real gold is near?

Pyrite (fools gold) is usually found in Quartz veins, Sedimentary rock, and Metamorphic rock,as well as in coal beds. I once found a vein of pyrite in slate.


How do you clean fools gold off of rocks?

I'm a bit more puzzled about how you get fools' gold ontorocks. Fools' gold is a type of rock... iron (II) sulfide, or iron pyrite. It's hard, brittle, and not something that could easily get smeared onto some other rock.If you somehow did manage it, it's relatively easily oxidized to the sulfate, which is soluble in water.


How can you make gold?

pee on a rock


Can fools gold be found in granite?

Fool's gold is the mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite. Pyrite is sometimes called Fools Gold because of its similarity in color and shape to Gold. The last thing you want is to be considered a fool the next time you go gold-panning. Pyrite is the most common of the sulfide minerals which is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2. Sometimes real gold is embedded in pyrite formations but this mineral is usually found associated with other sulfides or oxides in quartz veins, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock, as well as in coal beds and as a replacement mineral in fossils.


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