✅ 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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[yaxthri]

Why is this thread still active?...

I just waisted (again) some minutes of my life...

 

[Sdthunter760]

how heavy is it? i found some old melted aluminum around some rocks at the beach, but it was really light. good luck on figuring out what it is!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Why is this thread still active?...

..

We are all anxiously watching Beezies popcorn grow.

 

[CoinFetcher]

yeeeeah. I live, work and play in Seattle.

He should bring it to our metal detectors club, cascase treasue club. The exprerts there have ALL the gear and knowledge to test almost anything.

Neat story.

Popcorn sprouts got eaten by crows.

 

[Breezie]

yeeeeah. I live, work and play in Seattle.

He should bring it to our metal detectors club, cascase treasue club. The exprerts there have ALL the gear and knowledge to test almost anything.

Neat story.

Popcorn sprouts got eaten by crows?

Nope, the popcorn sprouts are growing just fine because I got a platinum scarecrow! Breezie

 

[boris]

Nope, the popcorn sprouts are growing just fine because I got a platinum scarecrow! Breezie
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Need a time machine for rather obvious reasons, as I almost popped a colonel! HH Boris "Whom melted the Palladium?" Have metal detector, will travel: wire palladium! Will work for food.Grandma was the reale treasure!

 

[Breezie]

Boris!

 

[wvwildman]

find out what that mystery metal is?

 

[Bryanhashemi]

obviously it was nothing. probably to ashamed to reply. he couldve just lied and said it was platinum!!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Boris you is krazy,,,, Lets step into the time machine.


Early Attempts to Melt Platinum

The first to melt impure platinum may have been Henrik Theophil Scheffer (1710–1759) who in 1751 melted platinum with copper, and later arsenic, in a furnace (4). Franz Achard (1753–1821) similarly melted the metal with arsenic (5). In both cases alloys of platinum, rather than pure platinum, are likely to have been melted. In 1775 Pierre Macquer (1718–1784) and Antoine Baumé (1724–1804) unsuccessfully attempted to melt platinum in a porcelain crucible over a wood fire. Macquer and others (later including Lavoisier) then tried with burning glasses: a 56 cm diameter concave mirror which focused the sun's rays quickly melted iron but platinum gave only silvery-white glistening particles – the product probably contained impurities of carbon which lowered its melting point (1). In 1774 a magnificent 1.2 m diameter burning glass filled with alcohol was mounted on a carriage and installed in the Jardin de l'Infante, Paris, France: it melted many materials, but not platinum (1, 6). An illustration of this device is shown in Figure 1 (3).
Fig. 1

Forget the propane torch from Walmart, IAMKNOW1. Have you tried directing the sun's rays?

The large burning glass built for the Académie Royale des Sciences and used in an early attempt to melt platinum (3)

 

[yaxthri]

Now that was informative...

 

[calisdad]

Boris you is krazy,,,, Lets step into the time machine.


Early Attempts to Melt Platinum

The first to melt impure platinum may have been Henrik Theophil Scheffer (1710–1759) who in 1751 melted platinum with copper, and later arsenic, in a furnace (4). Franz Achard (1753–1821) similarly melted the metal with arsenic (5). In both cases alloys of platinum, rather than pure platinum, are likely to have been melted. In 1775 Pierre Macquer (1718–1784) and Antoine Baumé (1724–1804) unsuccessfully attempted to melt platinum in a porcelain crucible over a wood fire. Macquer and others (later including Lavoisier) then tried with burning glasses: a 56 cm diameter concave mirror which focused the sun's rays quickly melted iron but platinum gave only silvery-white glistening particles – the product probably contained impurities of carbon which lowered its melting point (1). In 1774 a magnificent 1.2 m diameter burning glass filled with alcohol was mounted on a carriage and installed in the Jardin de l'Infante, Paris, France: it melted many materials, but not platinum (1, 6). An illustration of this device is shown in Figure 1 (3).
Fig. 1

Forget the propane torch from Walmart, IAMKNOW1. Have you tried directing the sun's rays?

The large burning glass built for the Académie Royale des Sciences and used in an early attempt to melt platinum (3)


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I believe The Earl of Sandwich used this device to melt sharp cheddar over his hamburger. Might even pop Breezies corn.

 

[Breezie]

Progress Report:

 

[DocBeav]

Went from Platinum to Popcorn..........and still no answer.....guess the corn is the real winner here!

 

[Nirros]

Lol....at least the corn without a doubt real!

 

[boris]

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. View attachment 742357View attachment 742358View attachment 742359View attachment 742360I 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.

Looks like a nickel, and should turn dark blue when acid is used on it like "German silver"? If it's way heavy how could it be aluminum? Is there a date on it? Native American is very clear on obverse, Is there a bison in back with Curly Howard riding?

 

[ohiowhiteguy]

i decided to chun my own butter..so breezie...can you send me some of that popcorn your growing? i'll send you some butter..
owg.

 

[Breezie]

Moving along.

 

[OldNBroken]

Man, I really wanted to hear what it was.

Oh well, can I at least have some of your popcorn Breezie?