✅ SOLVED Found this doing yard work. I believe it is natural platinum. But?????

[IAMKNOW1]

I was doing some yard work about a year ago and found what looked like a fossil to me and having always loved different rocks & minerals I brought it in the house. Doing some more yard work I began to notice there was A LOT of rocks in this yard. I can dig down 3 feet or so and have river rocks start filling my hole back up with little to no dirt. I started looking at some of these and I could see gold & pyrite, silver, gray to dark gray to metals in a lot of them. Now I am landscaping and breaking rocks. I picked up the old fossil & noticed gold & silver color in it so I decided to break it open and this is what I found. The nugget weighs 97.7 gr's & I tried your torch test. 20 minutes later & the tip of the nugget wasnt even red yet. I let it cool down & it looked like it had never seen a torch. I have a couple magnets that will really pinch your fingers & it just barely stuck to it. The complete piece weighs 1.74lbs. I washed it off after breaking it out of it's casing and glued it back together for the pictures. I have never seen anything like it in 50 years and was hoping someone on here could just verify what I think I have found. Thank you very much in advance, I can't wait to read your answers. T.

 

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[pointshunter]

So did u ever get this checked? I'm still waiting to find out what u have

 

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[Breezie]

My leftover popcorn kernels have spouted. Breezie

 

[ohiowhiteguy]

hey breezie. let them grow..i'm now more interested in what type of corn you are eating...and growing...keep us posted
owg

 

[Joshr29]

Comon Man, let us know what it is already.

 

[Breezie]

hey breezie. let them grow..i'm now more interested in what type of corn you are eating...and growing...keep us posted
owg

 

[ohiowhiteguy]

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that's sweet breezie.lol..keep growing...ha ha
owg.

 

[pointshunter]

Comon Man, let us know what it is already.

Yeah come on
we dying to know

 

[bufaloeletric]

this density test, is that the same as specific gravity. the way i do specific gravity is ... weigh the metal. place a cup of water that the metal will fit into onto the scale and weigh. now hang the object from a string into the cup and under the water without it touching the sides. record that weight. subtract the weight of the empty cup of water from the weight of the object contained cup of water. divide that number into the original weight of the object. that should be your specific density. if something ive instructed is backwards ima little dyslexic sometimes. also, i notice that "shell" seems to have a definite geometric shape to it. i think a it would be a good idea to try and identify the rock that surrounded the object if you have exhausted all possibilities of identifying the object. dont donate that ten thousand to the department, they will use it to lobby against amateur archaelogists and miners like myself. even if what you have isnt a precious metal, its still darn interesting.

 

[calisdad]

Platinum it is!

 

[Broken knee]

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Breezie with 200 lbs of that and Jim tom's help you'll have a party in a week? Stay thirsty Missy!!! HH
BK

 

[Farwalker]

May I be so bold as to say, Please stop trying to melt your find. Take very close up photos and "FIND" online a place such as Socorro School of Mines, in Socorro New Mexico. E-Mail the photos to SOMEONE. Putting into context all you have said. Possibly you are on top of an ancient alluvial river-bed/shelf or reef. The nugget appears to have characteristics of some sort of Royal metal. If I am right? you have a remarkable discovery. (BY the way it takes @ least Map-Gas for Royal Metal melts. Good Luck Amigo

 

[diggummup]

hey breezie. let them grow..i'm now more interested in what type of corn you are eating...and growing...keep us posted
owg

Silver Queen sweet corn. The best only, for breezie.

 

[Breezie]

Growing.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

This is almost as exciting as watching grass grow in my backyard.

 

[Fishermanjuice]

I'll give $50 plus shipping and I will get it tested so that I know the answer!

 

[flyadive]

Probably too embarrassed to tell us it's Aluminum and Tin or better yet Nickel !

 

[Fishermanjuice]

I would still pay $50 to have it and know the answer. Curiosity at its best.

 

[recondigger]

So what the heck is it

 

[arnofarrell]

Sell it on ebay!!!

 

[flyadive]

$51.00