what kind of nugget is this?

[spaghettigold]

Had this in my gravity sluice .Eny ideas what it is?
Oh ,and hello again to all,its been some time.

 

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[IMAUDIGGER]

Any additional information?
Weight..malleability...hardness...streak color...
Specific gravity would be helpful.

Where was it found?

 

[Goldwasher]

looks like it may be silver?

 

[spaghettigold]

weight i will determine tomorrow.Got my scale still in my car as i just came back from a trip to a new creek sunday evening and had no time yet to straighten up things.It,s slightly heavy but not heavy like gold or lead .
Malleability ..i,m afraid to break it,i think its,s pretty hard.Streak,against what should i rub it?
location is south europe(sorry,the anti-small scale mining/eco mafia is reading).Gold there (in the creek)is chunky,mineralized veins all over(i took samples) Magnetite balls in the creek alluvials bigger then my hand.

 

[spaghettigold]

looks like it may be silver?

yeah ,i was guessing too,looked up silver,lead and nickel nuggets but can,t really tell.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Budweiser.

 

[spaghettigold]

ok,i think i found a unglazed cup,but not porcelain.On this cup its streaks grey.

 

[spaghettigold]

Budweiser.

hmm. If you mean the location,it,s not.

 

[Toecutter]

pics are blurry but it looks like it has gold mixed in....

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I think someone meant it's a piece of melted aluminum can from a fire...trash.
That's likely the answer, but without more info...do you have balance beam scale?

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

pics are blurry but it looks like it has gold mixed in....

Seriously??! I have to use reading glasses...in the dark, 1/2 hour after sunset, everything yellow colored looks like gold. Till you actually get some light and clarity on it..then you figure out it's just a speck of light colored clay..which is the case 99% of the time.

 

[Kray Gelder]

hmm. If you mean the location,it,s not.

I was suggesting a melted beverage can. After closer inspection, I guess not. Are you sluicing desert sand?

 

[et1955]

What is the mining history of your area, what minerals are found there, that knowledge should help you in your I.D. of the specimen you found, if you share the location where you found the specimen we could help you.

 

[Toecutter]

Seriously??! I have to use reading glasses...in the dark, 1/2 hour after sunset, everything yellow colored looks like gold. Till you actually get some light and clarity on it..then you figure out it's just a speck of light colored clay..which is the case 99% of the time.

yes seriously I see yellow mixed in, of course the pics are blurry and of course my first thought was camp fire aluminum but after looking at the pics closer I gave the answer to what I seen, I have near perfect vision...

 

[spaghettigold]

I was suggesting a melted beverage can. After closer inspection, I guess not. Are you sluicing desert sand?

Now i get it.Would also be plausible because people there like to go down to the river and have a campfire with beer going on.It would not be a budweiser though

 

[spaghettigold]

What is the mining history of your area, what minerals are found there, that knowledge should help you in your I.D. of the specimen you found, if you share the location where you found the specimen we could help you.

Historic Copper mining,galena,silver ,syenite and gold mostly as a byproduct.There,s also uranium and thorium in the surrounding area but was not mined up until today.Also geological reports indicate rich tourmalin ore deposits.

Here some of the magnetite i found while...aspiring

and samples i took from 3 different locations /veins vein 1:

vein 2:

Vein3:

I wanted to discuss the samples in my gravity thread and /or hardrock forum but maybe it helps you get a idea of the mineralisations here.
And shure it would be interesting to hear thoughts and speculations about the ores as well.
There,s much visible chalcopyrite in vein 3 and some in vein 1,some malachite,much less bornite and things i don,t know yet predominantly in vein 1 ive learned.
I got to know another prospector who,s also a mineral collector and he said he,s got a connection to somebody who can run a test on my samples. He will cut a fine slice of the ore and then watch it under a microscope to determine if there is gold.If there is a fire assay would follow..?
Enyway that will take some time as he,s busy right now .
Thanks

 

[spaghettigold]

ok,here some pics i took with a newer phone



i tryed a specific gravity test with a scale ,a cup of water etc. It gives me varying results of 4.7 to 5.5

 

[spaghettigold]

well i doublechecked the spec.grav.test with a piece of magnetite and with a goldpicker and the results show my testsetup is flawed.For my picker it gives me s.g of 10 for ex.
So the 4.7 to 5.5 won,t be correct either.

(some gold pics maybe keeps them t-netters on the ball)

By the way,i saw Clay Diggins gave a like to Krays;"its a budweiser" ..and as we all know that Mr.Diggins real-life job is to work at google ,camouflaged as a search engine for mining related questions,thats a pretty bad sign.

Clay,can you confirm?

 

[Underburden]

I see fire damage, whether it's from a Budweiser can or some other metal object. This item I am holding is what happens to lead wheel weights after going into a bonfire and then being gilded with with 23K gold leaf. Some times things aren't always as they appear.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

That fake piece would not fool me. Doesn't look like anything I've seen.