Experienced nugget hunter help please

[Nano]

Please can you tell me what silver coloured metals form nuggets naturally. Chunky nuggets,not just slithers of native metal. Ounce plus nuggets.
Having trouble finding out this info. Only finding silver,palladium/platinum online as silver coloured chunky nuggets. Are there any other silver coloured metals that form chunky nugs?

Thankyou for your time. Very much

 

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[et1955]

If you look up " Malleable Metals " your question will answered, good luck

 

[Nano]

If you look up " Malleable Metals " your question will answered, good luck

Cheers man. What I was looking for.An "open sesame" type phrase.Thanks

 

[Clay Diggins]

Babbitt metal.

Open sesame.

 

[beekbuster]

i found a silver colored "nugget". about the size of the end of my thumb, couldnt tell you what it was, put it in my pocket while out md'ing and never saw it again. it looked water worn, inspected it for signs of being melted by lightning or fire, didnt notice anything obvious. it eats me cuz it could have been a $1500 piece of metal. ill never know. i hope you find your answer

 

[Goldwasher]

Pictures are helpful

 

[Bejay]

Please can you tell me what silver coloured metals form nuggets naturally. Chunky nuggets,not just slithers of native metal. Ounce plus nuggets.
Having trouble finding out this info. Only finding silver,palladium/platinum online as silver coloured chunky nuggets. Are there any other silver coloured metals that form chunky nugs?

Thankyou for your time. Very much

To rightfully answer your question it would be nice to know how you are finding them. For example, dredging I often find nuggets of Galena. The location of your find has merit to further determine the common minerals of the local; or even man made substances. Malleable Metals are just some of the metallics one finds in the form of nuggets. I find platinum nuggets..... but not 1 oz size. I have even found Pyrite (FeS2) nuggets on occasion dredging. But Galena is my guess.

Bejay

 

[Reed Lukens]

Or mercury covered gold...

 

[bug]

Magnetite can also sound pretty sweet on a metal detector. Nice chuncky octaheron crystal shapes in its crystalline form

 

[bc5391]

I've found plenty of lead

 

[arizau]

Please can you tell me what silver coloured metals form nuggets naturally. Chunky nuggets,not just slithers of native metal. Ounce plus nuggets.
Having trouble finding out this info. Only finding silver,palladium/platinum online as silver coloured chunky nuggets. Are there any other silver coloured metals that form chunky nugs?

Thankyou for your time. Very much

If you are in Southern Oregon or just south in California (this area of the U.S. is most noted but other volcanic areas are possibilities) then Awaruite/Josephinite are possibilities. Check and see if they are highly magnetic and, if so, then check out the two links shown below plus do some more google searches of the two minerals.

http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_25/25-166-415.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaruite

If these two leads do not match what you have but they are highly magnetic then it is a possibility they are metallic meteorite fragments that have been been tumbled/rounded and polished by stream action(?).

Good luck.

PS: Edit your profile (left side) so forum members at least know what state you are in and maybe give you more informed answers up front.

 

[ecmjamsit]

I have some roasted sylvanite and the blebs are silver. If it was roasted more the blebs will turn gold colored. The tellurium burns off at 700 F.

 

[TAKODA]

Please can you tell me what silver coloured metals form nuggets naturally. Chunky nuggets,not just slithers of native metal. Ounce plus nuggets.
Having trouble finding out this info. Only finding silver,palladium/platinum online as silver coloured chunky nuggets. Are there any other silver coloured metals that form chunky nugs?

Thankyou for your time. Very much

Might they look similar to this ? This one is over an ounce . Finding a lot of it ?