Connor McCloud
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- Aug 25, 2021
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I posted this a Mindat and they deleted me within about 10 minutes for no specified reason. I have an idea why but its not appropriate to elaborate here.
So this little collection represents 2 months of work for me this last june-july. Its all alluvial drops and there is actually a fair bit of competition where I go but lets just say I am not about to slack off when the getting is good.
I have a link to youtube where I posted a few videos and I can drop a few pics here.
Now the platinum nuggets do bubble in peroxide, the large grey one was originally a solid 3 pound piece. I broke it which is why you can see the interior of it which is ok in my book since I am aware there are larger specimens out there that would be a little more risky to break into pieces from a collectors standpoint.
The shinier more metallic luster piece is about 1 pound or so. Then I got a few smaller ones, they exhibit the black skid mark of carbon on all pieces and are non-magnetic except for a tiny little pin head surface inclusion of iron where it was forced out as an impurity on one of the broke large grey chunks but it is like 99.9999 no iron basically cause I used neodymium small magnet as well as a 1800 pound double sided magnet.
When we were kids we found some chunks but we didnt know what they were and lost them moving so many times over the years.
As far as the diamonds go sure most of them won't being going for millions but I like them good enough.
Thats it for now.
So this little collection represents 2 months of work for me this last june-july. Its all alluvial drops and there is actually a fair bit of competition where I go but lets just say I am not about to slack off when the getting is good.
I have a link to youtube where I posted a few videos and I can drop a few pics here.
Now the platinum nuggets do bubble in peroxide, the large grey one was originally a solid 3 pound piece. I broke it which is why you can see the interior of it which is ok in my book since I am aware there are larger specimens out there that would be a little more risky to break into pieces from a collectors standpoint.
The shinier more metallic luster piece is about 1 pound or so. Then I got a few smaller ones, they exhibit the black skid mark of carbon on all pieces and are non-magnetic except for a tiny little pin head surface inclusion of iron where it was forced out as an impurity on one of the broke large grey chunks but it is like 99.9999 no iron basically cause I used neodymium small magnet as well as a 1800 pound double sided magnet.
When we were kids we found some chunks but we didnt know what they were and lost them moving so many times over the years.
As far as the diamonds go sure most of them won't being going for millions but I like them good enough.
Thats it for now.
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