The belt is called Gold-Pyrite. That is not a joke. It is a clue.
On this ground, gold and pyrite often sit in the same old rock. Quartz veins. Hard yellow cubes next to the metal you came for. Near the surface the gold can sit free. Deeper, you see more pyrite.
People laugh at fools gold. Then they walk past the rock that told the story.
In the pan, the two do not act the same. Gold is heavy and soft. A flake smears. Pyrite is lighter and hard. A cube stays a cube. Brass yellow. Sharp edges. That is how you tell them apart with your eyes and a pin.
The name on the map is doing work. Dig into the geology layer. Turn on the mines. Ask where people cut that kind of rock. Then trace the water that ran off it.
You are not hunting glitter. You are reading a system. Pyrite says the rock had sulfur and heat. On the Gold-Pyrite Belt, that system also carried gold.
Sit with the map first. Let the name teach you. Then go confirm what the ground already said.
Open the map. Dig into the layers. Let the rock pick the story.