What mineral is this?

[Wolflover224]

A few days ago, I was hiking by a creek when I stumbled across a quartz vein. When I examined it, I saw that it contained some yellow-gold colored rocks surrounding the actual quartz crystals. I've heard that gold can be found in quartz, so I was wondering if it was gold, pyrite, or some other type of mineral.


This is what I found.

Does anyone know what type of mineral the gold colored flecks are?

[Jango_Fett]

You'll have to break some of it off and test to see if it's pyrite or not.
My guess is that it may be pyrite of something else, but there's a chance it's something resembling gold.

There are a few things you can do to see what it is, just gotta look 'em up.

[WolfQueen]

you can always try the streak test. it's when you scrape the mineral onto a flat surface used to test streaks. if it's possible, you can get a reasonable amount of the golden part from the quartz and test the streak. if it's black it's pyrite. if it's a golden yellow it's gold.

if you can't do something like what is said above then you can attempt to scrape the unknown golden mineral. pyrite is a sulfur compound, and if it's scratched or crushed it gives out a horrible smell.

[Crowed]

It's quartz that sure but the yellow look's like a yellow oxyde or suffer,  it's not gold or pyrite because it's on the surface of the quartz.