The mineral "rutile" is titanium dioxide, which can have a "gold" color. Other elements within rutile include iron, tantalum, and niobium.
Actual gold strands trapped within quartz crystals do exist, and are sometimes sold as jewelry or extracted as nuggets.
Gold, hematite, calcite, and quartz are all mineral elements.
Gold is commonly extracted from a type of rock called quartz. Gold is often found in quartz veins that run through the rock, and the gold can be separated by crushing the quartz and then using chemicals to extract the gold.
A strip or vein of quartz containing gold is called a "reef."
Aqua regia will dissolve gold. It will not dissolve quartz rock.
A hammer. You would break it off and flatten out the gold which is malleable from the fragile quartz.
Throw it away as it was not gold.
Gold was sometimes found in quartz, a white rock that often contains mineral veins.
Quartz crystal.
they were called gold-quartz
Found mostly in quartz. To extract it grind up the quartz the stick it on a plate. Put the plate in water the gently shake it so that the pieces of quartz fall off the all that's left is gold.
You could separate gold from other metals by gravity, by melting, or by chemical means.
In quartz and it is separated by crushing the ore.