Found in boiler at paper mill

[smitty4687]

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[DeepseekerADS]

Must have been a coal fired boiler! So then, gold found in coal deposits?

 

[Skunked68w]

Did the gold come from the coal or did someone loose a piece of jewelry while feeding or maintaining the boiler? Because I bet a gold chain that went through a furnace would look about like that

 

[No gold in NY]

Must have been a coal fired boiler! So then, gold found in coal deposits?

If so, it must have gone in as one chunk. Don't seem it would accumulate over time.

 

[smitty4687]

My buddy brought it to me I'll ask. Was at a papermill in alabama

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[winners58]

have it checked with an XRF scanner if its 10k, 14k you'll know if it was once jewelry

 

[smitty4687]

OK thanks

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[smitty4687]

OK ty.

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[Clay Diggins]

Recovery boilers used in paper plants have a max temperature of 1,300 degrees Fahrenheit in the black liquor burn chamber. Gold begins melting above 1,900 degrees Farenheit so it's very unlikely to be gold. Brazing rod is the likely source as it begins melting above 850 degrees Fahrenheit.

Try a streak test on a piece of unglazed ceramic like the bottom of your toilet lid. Anything but a true gold colored streak is not gold.

Heavy Pans

 

[Goldwasher]

I had a friend we lived in Portland Or. He worked at a place called Bullseye glass. They made art glass raw materials. Colored rod, broken "frack" etc.

The colors come from minerals. If I remember correctly gold is green , blue silver. Been a while I'm not googling it.

So they had a few broken crucibles ...I don't know the trade name for the two or so tonnish looking stoneware ceramic whatever pot they melted glass in.

Well one ore two of them were split and theres a glass layer and another older more absorbed metamorphic layer.

And all these mini gold intrusions. Little veins. I would stop and look every time I walked down to visit my buddy and watch them blow big glass bubbles and break them. Cool fricken job.

I asked about it and thats how I found out the colored glass info. Once I knew it was gold for sure I stared even longer. I wanted a chunk "piece of ore" from it pretty bad lol.

Total thread jack but made me think of that.

Streak test it is.

If it is gold then may the legend grow

 

[chlsbrns]

The 1050c (1922f) temperature generated by the boiler is enough to melt gold and other heavy metals that are found in wood. If you do not have a gold acid test kit take it to a pawn shop of jeweler to have it tested.

 

[smitty4687]

Hey took it by a shop yesterday they tested it and said it was 10k . Must have been some jewelry thank you for the help. sorry could get other specifications on it I was at the fire station and didn't have a scale.

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[Goldwasher]

cool

 

[Tpmetal]

I had a friend we lived in Portland Or. He worked at a place called Bullseye glass. They made art glass raw materials. Colored rod, broken "frack" etc.

The colors come from minerals. If I remember correctly gold is green , blue silver. Been a while I'm not googling it.

So they had a few broken crucibles ...I don't know the trade name for the two or so tonnish looking stoneware ceramic whatever pot they melted glass in.

Well one ore two of them were split and theres a glass layer and another older more absorbed metamorphic layer.

And all these mini gold intrusions. Little veins. I would stop and look every time I walked down to visit my buddy and watch them blow big glass bubbles and break them. Cool fricken job.

I asked about it and thats how I found out the colored glass info. Once I knew it was gold for sure I stared even longer. I wanted a chunk "piece of ore" from it pretty bad lol.

Total thread jack but made me think of that.

Streak test it is.

If it is gold then may the legend grow

I work in the glass community and have heard about this type of stuff as well. Always thought it was pretty neat, almost like instant geological formations.

 

[N-Lionberger]

Gold makes a pink color in glass. Green come from chromium.