25lbs each and looks real old..
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Ingots of brass or bronze.... Any idea how old found a bunch of them along River bank
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25lbs each and looks real old..
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*** YAWN ***
Update ?
Update ?
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I would like to think that's what happened.
Hope he's out there somewhere reading this while lounging in his hot tub after a hard day waxing the Porsche.
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Well where ever BVI. Is i hope he is doing well and is ok.
even finding some cobs is awesome!
even finding some cobs is awesome!
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He started a thread the other day.
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Did the yard tell you what the brass was? Lots of different % of copper/zinc/tin variations.
Just saw this old renewed thread and I could see it was a foundry brass ingot with the porous looking surface.
Just saw this old renewed thread and I could see it was a foundry brass ingot with the porous looking surface.
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You sure your trust the tester ?
Sheesh man... you are putting ALOT of faith in someone ELSE testing anything like that. IMO
Sheesh man... you are putting ALOT of faith in someone ELSE testing anything like that. IMO
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Test "spots... ? Please elaborate if you can.
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Ok I'm just going to say this about the scrap industry. After owning a yard and buying millions of dollars worth of non-ferrous metals I got a pretty good idea of how it all works.
The thing about yards is most run on this old thing called "I'll screw you-because you'll probably screw me" What does that mean? Well some peddler screwed the yard so the yard screwed over some other peddler to break even. This goes on and on-and it stopped at my gate when I opened.
You bring in this ingot, I'll tell you that it's brass and will pay you $X amount per pound. I will get it tested and that will determine the set price, and this will be done with a spectrograph analyzer.
It will tell you every % of what metals are in the ingot-nothing more-nothing less.
I made my living doing high alloys, and other rare metals. I had a customer base that trusted the finding of these tests.
The reason is that you own this metal till the payment and the sales invoice is done.
I wouldn't stake my reputation on one sale regardless of how many tons of these ingots you had.
Another thing, most yards hate buying ingots of anything, why? Well it is an end use for the manufacturing of a product, not scrap.
So the red flags go way up when somebody comes in with an ingot and claiming there may be more where it came from.
Ingots aren't just dumped as garbage, there's a history to them and believe it or not an ingot has what you could call a DNA.
What the Specro reads will tell exactly what metal it's made from-thus the purpose-and it's not a long time line of history for something like this so there a record someplace.
The thing about yards is most run on this old thing called "I'll screw you-because you'll probably screw me" What does that mean? Well some peddler screwed the yard so the yard screwed over some other peddler to break even. This goes on and on-and it stopped at my gate when I opened.
You bring in this ingot, I'll tell you that it's brass and will pay you $X amount per pound. I will get it tested and that will determine the set price, and this will be done with a spectrograph analyzer.
It will tell you every % of what metals are in the ingot-nothing more-nothing less.
I made my living doing high alloys, and other rare metals. I had a customer base that trusted the finding of these tests.
The reason is that you own this metal till the payment and the sales invoice is done.
I wouldn't stake my reputation on one sale regardless of how many tons of these ingots you had.
Another thing, most yards hate buying ingots of anything, why? Well it is an end use for the manufacturing of a product, not scrap.
So the red flags go way up when somebody comes in with an ingot and claiming there may be more where it came from.
Ingots aren't just dumped as garbage, there's a history to them and believe it or not an ingot has what you could call a DNA.
What the Specro reads will tell exactly what metal it's made from-thus the purpose-and it's not a long time line of history for something like this so there a record someplace.
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Ok after reading this thread I officially have blue balls. I've never in 15 years of metal detecting not been able to find a site that I've been to. ��
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I know where it is but water levels of the river determine if I can reach it or not.it was a severe drought and exposed parts of the river usually inaccessible.i do expect to return again when river is low again,come august hopefully
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Interesting finds, hope you can sell them and make a small fortune! 
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I honestly find this thread rediculous.... you find metal ingots and wait 2 years to get them tested and never go back to try to get the rest?
Fine, the water levels need to be low. I would call into work when the levels are low and get the rest regardless, especially during a 2 year period
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Then you waited 2 years to cut into it to reveal a brass/gold color? Come on.... you are eithier really rich and dont care, full of crap or a complete fool.
Fine, the water levels need to be low. I would call into work when the levels are low and get the rest regardless, especially during a 2 year period
?Then you waited 2 years to cut into it to reveal a brass/gold color? Come on.... you are eithier really rich and dont care, full of crap or a complete fool.
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