Almost threw it away. Save your slag!

[Lakemonster]

I was cleaning off my dresser this evening and and found a piece of slag I probably found a few months ago.... but for some reason...probably the weight... made me keep it. I picked it up tonight and headed for the trash.... but then thought better of it.

Roland58 kindly gave me some Neodymium magnets a few weeks back so I checked it. Negative. Then I remembered I had recently purchased an acid test kit while back....

I grabbed a file and cleaned a surface... dropped a drop on it.... an waited a few minutes.... sure enough..according to color its 90% silver like coins.

While I found this months ago... I only found out an hour ago that I almost threw nearly $40 in silver away.

 

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[jewelerguy]

sweet

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Very nice save!
If only that piece was a bit longer at the bottom, I'd say it looked like the great state of Texas!

Dave

 

[AGBlex]

funny lookin silver bar you got there!

 

[chukers]

I was cleaning off my dresser this evening and and found a piece of slag I probably found a few months ago.... but for some reason...probably the weight... made me keep it. I picked it up tonight and headed for the trash.... but then thought better of it.

Roland58 kindly gave me some Neodymium magnets a few weeks back so I checked it. Negative. Then I remembered I had recently purchased an acid test kit while back....

I grabbed a file and cleaned a surface... dropped a drop on it.... an waited a few minutes.... sure enough..according to color its 90% silver like coins.

While I found this months ago... I only found out an hour ago that I almost threw nearly $40 in silver away.

Thanks for reminding me I have a few pounds of the stuff in several pieces... and they weight 80 to 200 grams but I am pretty sure the 200g one is lead the other are much harder.


Chukers

 

[TheRockDoc]

Wow, that is pretty awesome... Congrats. Might I ask, where you found that? If you remember.. i dont mean what park either, I mean like as a metal detector, where could someone go about finding a piece of raw silver like that? i know if I want to find gold, I go to the rocky mts. and do the streams and rivers, but I have only heard of one other person finding raw silver like that.....

 

[chukers]

Wow, that is pretty awesome... Congrats. Might I ask, where you found that? If you remember.. i dont mean what park either, I mean like as a metal detector, where could someone go about finding a piece of raw silver like that? i know if I want to find gold, I go to the rocky mts. and do the streams and rivers, but I have only heard of one other person finding raw silver like that.....

Its not raw silver... most likely its melted silver from a house fire... that is where I find most of mine.


Chukers

 

[TheRockDoc]

Interesting, good to know....

 

[mjc_lakedweller]

You must be kidding me! About a moth ago I searched an old location that had burned down in the 1920s and kept digging up alot of slag. However, some pieces were differnt & heavier, it made me wonder if it wwas melted silver. I just recently threw it all away. What acid test did you use and where can I purchase?

 

[nsdq]

Wow, that is pretty awesome... Congrats. Might I ask, where you found that? If you remember.. i dont mean what park either, I mean like as a metal detector, where could someone go about finding a piece of raw silver like that? i know if I want to find gold, I go to the rocky mts. and do the streams and rivers, but I have only heard of one other person finding raw silver like that.....

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i have posted onthis site with the 2 chunks of slag i found, one is 95 % silver with 1% trace 4% copper, other one 99.8 % pure silver

 

[steelheadwill]

Nice recovery!
test kit makes things a lot easier to ID,
Lakedweller, You can get one on Epay for under $15

 

[Lakemonster]

RockDoc.

Chukers got it... most likely a house fire. I found this on my own property. I have found several pieces of the stuff.

... I got my test kit on ebay as well...they have them on Amazon too.

 

[MRBeyer]

Man, that makes me want to check a whole bunch of similar looking items I mD'ed for near where I camp at. Its not aluminum cans, I was thinking it might be zinc as there is alot of zinc mines in that area. I have a good dozen or so of them. Find them all over the place there. Yes, there are some silver mines in the area. Would be wild if it was silver.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

That is awesome! Great post

 

[Valley Ranger]

Very interesting. I know I've become much more cautious about just throwing away the mystery objects. I almost threw away a 2000 year old Indian artifact recently! When in doubt, check it out!!

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Syrena Hunter]

Great job! Thanks for the post. I'll have to get me one of the test kits myself. HH

 

[Lanny in AB]

Sweet recovery!

All the best,

Lanny