Separating gold from quartz
If you crush mica you will get a white powder. It might be colored by iron so it would look like a yellow powder, but washing it in an acid (HCl, oxalic acid, citric acid...) will remove the iron and only leave the white powder. Crushing gold is really hard since as anachronism pointed out, gold is malleable and will only deform and smear.
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