Any body know anything about lead or similar metel?

[allison86]

Well at first i thought this was a musket ball but I was wrong I found this with my new garrett at pro my bounty hunter never dected this type of metel before I assumed it's lead because it's a little heavier then the rocks I am wondering what is it

 

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[allison86]

 

[mick56]

Can't really tell by looking at it. Try to cut it with a knife. If it is soft, and very shiny where you cut it, it's lead. If it's hard, it's something else. See if a magnet sticks to it.

 

[allison86]

Here's what it looks like after I cut it

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

If a magnet sticks it won't be lead.

 

[allison86]

Did the magnet test and it's not sticking

 

[austin]

Well, if it was easy to cut it is lead, if hard to make that cut, it is another metal or more likely a piece of a meteorite or a small one...

 

[jan nielsen]

Looks like lead to me, where you cut it.

 

[allison86]

The part where it's Shiney a little

 

[SorenCoins]

I study inorganic chemistry, metallurgy, etc., and that appears to be lead, however maybe mixed with a lot of antimony (a metalloid added to bullets for strength) or maybe even iron due to corrosion. lead oxidizes grey not brown so it is probably a bullet or some small lead object