Is this Silver or just a Rock?

[CountryLiving]

Found this with my metal detector on my ranch. Is this Silver or just a Rock? My metal detector beeped on the Silver range and when I got back to the house I noticed a Silver color and it's heavy too for it's size. I took a grinder and shaved the edge so to try to break open the rock but no success. I just want to know if this is Silver. Thanks!

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

Upgraded Night Vision Monocular Digital Infrared Monocular Telescope for 100% Darkness with 8X Zoom - Grab it through Amazon!

[Red James Cash]

try scratching it with your finger nail,if so its lead.

 

[Crispin]

There are a couple of scientific things you can do to test it.
1. Try to melt it with a soldering iron. If it melts...lead or lead based alloy.
2. Break a piece of it off or depending on the size, get a frying pan, then take a piece of Aluminium foil, crinkle it a little, and lay it in the bottom of the pan. Put two scoops of baking soda in. Then place object on the aluminum. Heat to just below a boil. The baking soda will bubble up through the pan. If bubbles form the the object itself then you have a noble metal which is most likely silver. We can run more tests if that is positive.

 

[mick56]

Fire nugget?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Slag; Fire Nugget; Leaveright; Melted aluminum -

 

[CountryLiving]

Could be a fire nugget bc it was found by our old water well and I have also found an ammunition box lock from the Cowboy days.

 

[kenstein]

Welcome to TreasureNet. No expert here, but I think it's lead. It's found quite often around older homesites. Check a fishing weight and see if it gives a similar signal.

 

[bigfoot1]

even lead,if its large enough will sound off as a high tone,aluminum too.babit was often used on ranches and homesteads as was an awful lot of lead.quick trip to jeweler or pawn shop,they will test it.

good luck and welcome

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Silver requires a higher heat to melt than lead, silvers melting point is 1763 degrees Fahrenheit where lead melts at 621.5 Fahrenheit a blow torch from the hardware store will melt it if its lead but not if it's silver

 

[CountryLiving]

Is this ammunition box lock rare? Once again I found it by an old water well on our ranch. Most these items were all found by our water well. I think there use to be a trading post on the corner a very long time ago. There is a lot of history I am finding out.

 

[CountryLiving]

Anyone know anything about the lock? Found it about 18 inches deep too. Nothing else around it except for 2 horse shoe nails that were about 8 inches deep. The nails is how I found the lock. Beeped as iron.

 

[Crispin]

You should start a new thread about the lock. Welcome to TNET. Best to use a thread to identify one thing only; otherwise, people are going to think you are still talking about the blob and probably not be as interested. My recommendation: new thread and new title.