It could be some encrusted aluminum, it would give a silver color and it would be light and it wouldn't be magnetic either. An acid test is probably needed to confirm what it is.
I have always thought that a pipeline could be built along all interstates to take excess storm water(flooding and tidal surges) and pump it to the Nevada desert into underground aquifers that would clean up the water and then pump it to needed areas at a cost. Most interstates have a large...
That is a beautiful piece of scrimshaw, a friend of mines Father owned a scrimshaw shop in my hometown that was my first introduction to the art style and he did a lot on bone and horns so I supplied him with a lot I found while hunting and hiking.
I keep scrap of all kinds, even bullet casings those have to be separate from other brass as they pay different prices for shells and they also need to check to make sure all the primers have been fired off, it wouldn't be good to start melting brass and have a bunch of shells exploding.
My Mom whooped my butt if I did something wrong and I learned right from wrong and she was a single parent and the whole town kept an eye out on all of us kids that were growing up in town. Also I trained my bird dog with a training device some would think Barbaric but it was a simulated bird...
Those samples look a lot better because they have other minerals mixed in the matrix, the other quartz the white, was pretty much just pure milk quartz. When you are looking for gold it travels where Iron and copper woud be also, so some color in your quartz is always a good thing. With all your...