Gold Bar, or scrap junk..

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Anyhow, you have ruled out gold, silver, copper, lead, aluminum, and iron. That leaves you something naturally occurring or an alloy...either way, pretty neat.

Titanium is much lighter and tungsten is much heavier...it is not either one of those.
 

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A suggestion only...

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The paisley pillow make viewing extremely hard.
 

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We did a water displacement test, and used an equation.. and based on it being black but turning green in bleach, and it also being magnetic... its a silver-nickle alloy... not nickle silver... silver with nickle in it
 

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it ISNT titanium... see pics... its density is 9.35 g/ccm... which makes it... thulium... the rarest metal on earth, worth 50$ per gram and i have 75grams of it..

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itzyoboyandrew said:
it ISNT titanium... see pics... its density is 9.35 g/ccm... which makes it... thulium... the rarest metal on earth, worth 50$ per gram and i have 75grams of it..
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Can you cut it with a knife? Thulium has a Mohs hardness between 2 and 3, so it very soft.

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the orignial bar (possible sivler-iron alloy) im getting it tested today with an acid test... hopeing for the best!
 

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Magnetic silver is worthless as is 40% silver alloys, usless as I've mentioned "you have 100's of pounds of it". The reason that it isn't worth it is that the chemicals and or gasses and time cost too much to extract the silver from the iron or other gange materials, verses the cost of silver. The same predicament occurs with extracting gold and platinum, if there's too much gange material it is cost prohibited to extract it.
 

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Ant said:
Magnetic silver is worthless as is 40% silver alloys, usless as I've mentioned "you have 100's of pounds of it". The reason that it isn't worth it is that the chemicals and or gasses and time cost too much to extract the silver from the iron or other gange materials, verses the cost of silver. The same predicament occurs with extracting gold and platinum, if there's too much gange material it is cost prohibited to extract it.
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Yes i know, but i want to (for sure) know that it doesnt have more then 50% silver... not arguing your reasoning, just want to be sure.. im the type of person that i make sure 100% that im right... or wrong..
 

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itzyoboyandrew said:
Yes i know, but i want to (for sure) know that it doesnt have more then 50% silver... not arguing your reasoning, just want to be sure.. im the type of person that i make sure 100% that im right... or wrong..
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keep pursuing until you get an answer or you are satisfied that you no longer need/want one. If I had that piece of "whatever" in my hands I would have already dumped nitric acid all over it.
 

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Crispin said:
keep pursuing until you get an answer or you are satisfied that you no longer need/want one. If I had that piece of "whatever" in my hands I would have already dumped nitric acid all over it.
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I would of to, but don't have any.. Ordered a acid test kit tho..

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This is not for the OP, this is for members following this thread. In order to conduct a quantitative assay the metal has to be refined. Nitric acid by itself will not provide you with a quantitative assay, nitric acid can be used with other chemicals to create Aqua Regia, this will dissolve gold and induct the it into solution, then another chemical (uric acid for gold) is used to precipitate the precious metal back into a solid. Then you would know the percentage of precious metal but nou until it is cuppled.

This is why small to medium sized mining operations use companies to perform these quantitative assays. They use a method to extract silver from xray film and the buffer solution used to devolop xray film. This is not easy and cost alot, not worth the trouble fooling with junk metals.
 

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