OLD COPPER CULTURE POINT

[walker2]

Hi I think this is the correct place for this find. I found this about a month ago and sent in some nice pics to a expert in copper culture. Got his reply back and thought I would share it with you.

 

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[mamabear]

Wow! nice find!

 

[greengold]

Killer find!

 

[stefen]

 

[flintdigger]

Really a nice find we find no metal associated with the camps here all stone.

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice find....also there is an entire forum on T-net for copper culture.

 

[theviking]

Very cool. I had no idea copper artifacts could be so old.[ 5,700 bc] I would say welcome to t-net, but I see you have been around for while.

 

[NC field hunter]

My family owns land on an old copper mine. I've been told that the natives founded copper by using white flint with green copper tarnish to build camp fire rings. The heat, I suppose would extract the metal from the quartz, and they would find this hard material on their next trip to that area. ( nomadic natives) several have been found on our farm, but I have never found one. I don't know just how true this is, it sounds good, but if a camp fire would burn hot enough to extract copper from quartz, I'd be a millionaire!

 

[walker2]

My family owns land on an old copper mine. I've been told that the natives founded copper by using white flint with green copper tarnish to build camp fire rings. The heat, I suppose would extract the metal from the quartz, and they would find this hard material on their next trip to that area. ( nomadic natives) several have been found on our farm, but I have never found one. I don't know just how true this is, it sounds good, but if a camp fire would burn hot enough to extract copper from quartz, I'd be a millionaire!

In WI they would build fires around the rocks that held copper .Then when it got very hot they would pour water on the rocks to crack them. After that they would pound on the rocks with rock hammers and get the raw copper out of them.

 

[GatorBoy]

That would work

 

[NC field hunter]

Well, you boys are in business with me! We're opening the mine back up! I bet honestly, It would be worth the time extracting the copper from that milky quartz on the farm. Most of the stones are totally green. Mounds and mounds where they blasted out the shafts. 2500 feet holes and tunnels that cover over 200 acres of land.

 

[kkbroker]

Too cool...can't even put into words how envious I am of your find. Congrats

 

[Bumpstick]

Great find!!! if only I could stumble across something ancient.
I would love to hunt with you in the after the ice melts.
Again that is fantastic.