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Hi you all i normally don't my finds but to me this is significant so I wanted to share.
My conclusion is that I found a crystalline gold nugget that has a coating of iron oxide, and a natural copper nugget.
I posted the story in the "What Is It" room.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/forum.php
At first when this came out of the ground I thought it was a gold ring that was melted in a extremely hot house or building fire.
It came out of the ground like you see in the first set of pictures. Then when I got home scrubbed it with a toothbrush, ammonia, and dish washing liquid. I am very familiar with gold characteristics and knew right off that it was gold. It was heavy like gold and I saw the glint of gold in spots and assumed that it became contaminated in the fire.
I never find much brass in this area but every now and then I do, mostly iron, aluminum, cooper and lead. It was down inside a bed of charcoal. I also this copper nugget that was within 6' of the gold nugget. came from the site burn.
This site has a rich gold history and tons of gold ore was loaded and shipped through here. Is it possible that it fell from a wagon or pack animal because I wouldn't expect to find both so close to each other.
The first set of pictures is how i came out of the ground. The second set of pictures is how it looked after cleaning it with baking soda, ammonia, dish washing liquid, and a 40 second scrubbing with a medium toothbrush (yep I counted that out).
Then in the second set of pictures I t scrubbed it with the toothbrush and Brasso Brass cleaner and that had no effect, no tarnish transfer to the white cotton cloth that I used either (it isn't brass but I knew that).
The third set of pictures show the gold nugget after I soaked it in ketchup for about 30 minutes. Then I vigorously scrubbed it for about a minute with a hog bristle brush.
After all these years this is be my first detected gold nugget and it came in its crystalline form with a coating of iron oxide. The gold is actually soft enough bend with the fingernail on my pinkie finger where I have the pointer.
The last set of pictures is of the copper nugget:
My conclusion is that I found a crystalline gold nugget that has a coating of iron oxide, and a natural copper nugget.
I posted the story in the "What Is It" room.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/forum.php
At first when this came out of the ground I thought it was a gold ring that was melted in a extremely hot house or building fire.
It came out of the ground like you see in the first set of pictures. Then when I got home scrubbed it with a toothbrush, ammonia, and dish washing liquid. I am very familiar with gold characteristics and knew right off that it was gold. It was heavy like gold and I saw the glint of gold in spots and assumed that it became contaminated in the fire.
I never find much brass in this area but every now and then I do, mostly iron, aluminum, cooper and lead. It was down inside a bed of charcoal. I also this copper nugget that was within 6' of the gold nugget. came from the site burn.
This site has a rich gold history and tons of gold ore was loaded and shipped through here. Is it possible that it fell from a wagon or pack animal because I wouldn't expect to find both so close to each other.
The first set of pictures is how i came out of the ground. The second set of pictures is how it looked after cleaning it with baking soda, ammonia, dish washing liquid, and a 40 second scrubbing with a medium toothbrush (yep I counted that out).
Then in the second set of pictures I t scrubbed it with the toothbrush and Brasso Brass cleaner and that had no effect, no tarnish transfer to the white cotton cloth that I used either (it isn't brass but I knew that).
The third set of pictures show the gold nugget after I soaked it in ketchup for about 30 minutes. Then I vigorously scrubbed it for about a minute with a hog bristle brush.
After all these years this is be my first detected gold nugget and it came in its crystalline form with a coating of iron oxide. The gold is actually soft enough bend with the fingernail on my pinkie finger where I have the pointer.
The last set of pictures is of the copper nugget:
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