Anyone know what this might be?

[goldnuggetmama]

I was working in my garden and found this i have no idea what it is would love some input please and thank you?
I live in gold ,platinum & silver bearing country in No-Cal..
I appreciate everyone who reads and comments on this 🫶🏻

 

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[robertk]

Looks like some metal object that was melted in a fire.

 

[WoodsDigger]

I was working in my garden and found this i have no idea what it is would love some input please and thank you?
I live in gold ,platinum & silver bearing country in No-Cal..
I appreciate everyone who reads and comments on this 🫶🏻

Melted aluminum.

 

[goldnuggetmama]

Looks like some metal object that was melted in a fire.

You might be right i will have to research if there was a fire back in the day.
Thank you kind sir for responding

 

[WoodsDigger]

You might be right i will have to research if there was a fire back in the day.
Thank you kind sir for responding

I think if you gouge it and it's shiny it's aluminum. Lead may haveva similar result but aluminum will be noticeably lightweight in your hand for the bulk /mass of the object. Keep going !!

 

[AU Seeker]

How much does it weight, that will be a telling bit of info.

I also think it's either aluminum or possibly Babbitt, a bearing material that was used in the old days to pour/make engine bearings on many types of vehicles and machinery in the field.

 

[Chilli]

I was working in my garden and found this i have no idea what it is would love some input please and thank you?
I live in gold ,platinum & silver bearing country in No-Cal..
I appreciate everyone who reads and comments on this 🫶🏻

Hi. Im guessing it was found near you other find? Looks like similar metal.

 

[Gare]

Lead will gouge a lot easier and also a lot heavier

 

[villagenut]

Looks like one fine fire nugget as others has suggested

 

[Relicmania]

I was working in my garden and found this i have no idea what it is would love some input please and thank you?
I live in gold ,platinum & silver bearing country in No-Cal..
I appreciate everyone who reads and comments on this 🫶🏻

I dig stuff up from my yard that looks very similar to what you have (too much of it, and spread out over too much area, to have been from a simple fire IMHO). I asked a metallurgist to test several samples and they said definitely aluminum after looking at it under an electron microscope. In my case, I wonder if it's from fill dirt brought in at some point. My vote is that what you have found is likely aluminum.

 

[goldnuggetmama]

Looks like some metal object that was melted in a fire.

You might be right i will have to research if there was a fire back in the day.
Thank you kind sir for responding

Hi. Im guessing it was found near you other find? Looks like similar metal.

hi actually it was about 20 miles away from where i live /gardening.
The one i found hiking was up on a old Chinese mining camp from the 1800’s gold mining era

 

[goldnuggetmama]

How much does it weight, that will be a telling bit of info.

I also think it's either aluminum or possibly Babbitt, a bearing material that was used in the old days to pour/make engine bearings on many types of vehicles and machinery in the field.

Hi i just weighed it and it weighed in at 95g’s but as others suggested it just might be a glob or aluminum unfortunately.😝
I was hoping for something better lol
But i bought property on the river in the beautiful forest and well with the lightning notoriously starting fires who knows maybe there was a fire on or around my property centuries ago because when i go hiking i always am digging and i find weird globs of melted glass in strange random places looks maybe like a bad forest fire took place hundreds of years ago because trees are Huge now and and looks like never seen a fire

 

[robertk]

maybe there was a fire on or around my property centuries ago

If it was centuries ago, I doubt you'd be finding aluminum. Iron, maybe, or maybe tin or pewter or something, but not I don't associate aluminum with old sites at all.

 

[Chilli]

You might be right i will have to research if there was a fire back in the day.
Thank you kind sir for responding

hi actually it was about 20 miles away from where i live /gardening.
The one i found hiking was up on a old Chinese mining camp from the 1800’s gold mining era

Ahh ok.
What does it read on your detector at numbers wise?

 

[WoodsDigger]

You might be right i will have to research if there was a fire back in the day.
Thank you kind sir for responding

I dig stuff up from my yard that looks very similar to what you have (too much of it, and spread out over too much area, to have been from a simple fire IMHO). I asked a metallurgist to test several samples and they said definitely aluminum after looking at it under an electron microscope. In my case, I wonder if it's from fill dirt brought in at some point. My vote is that what you have found is likely aluminum.

You will find it and find it and find it get ready !