Copper nuggets: Natural or Slag ? And my usual Maine junk !

[MaineRelic]

Went back to the Dam / Mill coastal stream that I hunted last weekend ! I think my most interesting find today was the copper nuggets ! They were spread out on the stream bank below the high tide mark ! There was not a single concentration of the copper nuggets they were spread out individually in about a 40 foot radius ! Individual targets being on average 6 feet apart ! They ring like a big copper though so you have to dig them ! I am curious if the copper nuggets are in a naturally accuring state or are pieces of slag copper from a smelting operation What do you think My usual 1 coin a day find today was an Edward the VII 1905 Canadian copper ! and a few other pieces of junk I fell in love with in the field !! The Ladies sash/ fashion buckle piece I found today matched up with the piece I found on this site last year ! Nature was not as kind to this piece of the buckle as the piece I found last year but it was nice to find it !! I also found the lead tag and some other Maine junk / relics makes no difference to me I love everything I dig !! OH I forgot to mention that all the keys were in one hole with the remnants of the chain that held them together !! Someone had a bad day when they lost them !! MaineRelic

 

[civil war hunter]

Re: Copper nuggets: Natural or Slag ! And my usual Maine junk !

Would they us copper welding on ships for somethin?

 

[Iron Patch]

I like that seal! GTR? I tend to not care for most 19th/20th century lead seals, but if that's what I suspect it is (Grand Trunk Railroad) I think it's a good find!

The Grand Trunk Railway (reporting mark GT) was a railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec; however, corporate headquarters were in London, England. The Grand Trunk and its subsidiaries, along with the Canadian Government Railways, was a primary precursor of today's Canadian National Railways.

The GTR had three important subsidiaries during its lifetime:

* Central Vermont Railway which operated in Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
* Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which operated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
* Grand Trunk Western Railroad which operated in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois.

A fourth subsidiary was the never-completed Southern New England Railway, chartered in 1910, which would have run from a connection with the Central Vermont at Palmer, Massachusetts to the deep-water, all-weather port of Providence, Rhode Island. A new line to Providence would have allowed for more extensive port facilities than were possible for the Central Vermont at New London, Connecticut. Construction began in 1910 and continued in fits and starts for more than 20 years until finally abandoned in the early 1930s because of the Great Depression. The loss of the SNER's strongest proponent, Grand Trunk Railway president, Charles Melville Hays on the Titanic in 1912 may have been the major reason that this new route to the sea was never completed. Another important factor was the unrelenting opposition of the New Haven Railroad which fiercely protected its virtual monopoly control of rail traffic in Southern New England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway

 

[HCW]

Nice stuff. What's the date on that canafian coin?

 

[Deepdiger60]

Good finds in a old field here i been finding the same thing about 5 copper nuggets there is also huge bolders the size of buses they say where dragged down from up north by the last ice age which formed the north shore of Long Island copper is not a natural find for this area , your nuggets look natural to me if they was slag they would be more rounded and smooth Dd60

 

[MaineRelic]

I like that seal! GTR? I tend to not care for most 19th/20th century lead seals, but if that's what I suspect it is (Grand Trunk Railroad) I think it's a good find!

The Grand Trunk Railway (reporting mark GT) was a railway system which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The railway was operated from headquarters in Montreal, Quebec; however, corporate headquarters were in London, England. The Grand Trunk and its subsidiaries, along with the Canadian Government Railways, was a primary precursor of today's Canadian National Railways.

The GTR had three important subsidiaries during its lifetime:

* Central Vermont Railway which operated in Quebec, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
* Grand Trunk Pacific Railway which operated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia.
* Grand Trunk Western Railroad which operated in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois.

A fourth subsidiary was the never-completed Southern New England Railway, chartered in 1910, which would have run from a connection with the Central Vermont at Palmer, Massachusetts to the deep-water, all-weather port of Providence, Rhode Island. A new line to Providence would have allowed for more extensive port facilities than were possible for the Central Vermont at New London, Connecticut. Construction began in 1910 and continued in fits and starts for more than 20 years until finally abandoned in the early 1930s because of the Great Depression. The loss of the SNER's strongest proponent, Grand Trunk Railway president, Charles Melville Hays on the Titanic in 1912 may have been the major reason that this new route to the sea was never completed. Another important factor was the unrelenting opposition of the New Haven Railroad which fiercely protected its virtual monopoly control of rail traffic in Southern New England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Railway

Thanks for the info IronPatch, looking at the GTR route map it shows a rail through bangor .

 

[sscindercoop]

Nice

 

[hammered]

Hi MaineRelic, I have found lumps of copper in the fields over here, some of them have white metal in the mix, but the ones I find are green not shiny like yours . When I posted one of the lumps on here a while back someone on here, I can't remember who, suggested it might be "float copper". I like the Edward 7th, any day you get an old identifiable coin is a good day.

hammered

 

[bigealive]

neat stuff you got there!!! Happy Hunting, Todd

 

[MaineRelic]

Hi MaineRelic, I have found lumps of copper in the fields over here, some of them have white metal in the mix, but the ones I find are green not shiny like yours . When I posted one of the lumps on here a while back someone on here, I can't remember who, suggested it might be "float copper". I like the Edward 7th, any day you get an old identifiable coin is a good day.

hammered

They were deposited in a gravel stream bank so I believe the abrasive action of the gravel , water, Ice flows ect ..scoured them shiny ! MaineRelic

 

[Kanyontreasures]

possibly melted pennys a possible forest fire i dono just a guass!