I think its gold or silver anyone wanna guess?

[Moek28]

Found this on the floor at a lake looks like a meteorite but not sure

 

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[GoDeep]

Limestone and iron or maybe just limestone with some rusty looking lake bottom crud on it.

 

[galenrog]

What evidence do you have that it is gold, silver, or meteorite?

Visually, I would agree with GoDeep. Probably limestone with lake crud.

Time for more coffee.

 

[Moek28]

Evidence

 

[Mud Hut]

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Evidence

Evidence of what?

 

[Moek28]

Of gold why dont you zoom in and look.

 

[Moek28]

Its not a rock at all its completely metallic

 

[Mud Hut]

Of gold why dont you zoom in and look.

I did .. that's why I asked. You said, "I think its gold or silver" and the photo doesn't look like either.

 

[ticndig]

iron ore .

 

[RTR]

Evidence of what?

Scrape some off and pan it .

 

[Moek28]

Its not magnetic

 

[GoDeep]

Let it dry, don't wet it and and take it to a well lit area and don't use flash and take multiple high resolution photos.

What we have is dark, grainy pictures with flash reflection off the wet.

 

[Duckshot]

Let it dry, don't keep wetting it when taking pictures and making the light reflect off it and take it to a well lit area and don't use flash.

Yep.

Gold and silver both have high luster while most minerals do not. The water and flash photography make a thing look shinier than it really is. Shine a bright light on a suspected peice of gold or clean silver, then shade the light and if it loses its color it probably ain't a gold or silver.

Also, try to chisel or crush a bit off. If it's metal it will flatten and not flake. But if it does flake then crush it all up and pan it out- you might find something, might not.

 

[JVA5th]

Perhaps a bunch of melted metal? Looks to crusty to be gold or silver. Looks like possibly brass melted with some iron stuff. Really hard to say though from the pictures.

 

[Gold Maven]

if it is humongous, a weight to volume test can be quite accurate.

To measure volume, submerge it in graduated container of water, calculate the volume from the difference in the water level.

weigh it, look up a weight per volume chart, and there you go. GL.

 

[Duckshot]

if it is humongous, a weight to volume test can be quite accurate.

To measure volume, submerge it in graduated container of water, calculate the volume from the difference in the water level.

weigh it, look up a weight per volume chart, and there you go. GL.

Yep, good idea.

One of the identifying characteristics of material is its density, which is normally expressed in grams per a cubic centimeter or g/cc.

Chances are though that your material might never fit into your graduated cylinder's mouth. If so, I'd take a pitcher with a spout and set it in a pie pan. Carefully fill the pitcher until a drop or few spill out of the pitcher's spout and into the pan. Wipe up any extra water in the pan with paper towel. Then just slowly dunk your peice in the pitcher. (I like to use tongs or tweezers instead of my fat stupid fingers)

Then measure the water that spilled into the pan with your graduated cylinder. That will be the volume of your peice(how much space it takes up) then you need the mass of the peice in grams, use a scale. Density is mass/volume. For instance, pure gold has a density around 19.3g/cc, which means that a cubic centimeter or cc of gold weighs 19.3 grams.

Try it out. No matter what the unknown piece is, it's density is relevant.

 

[Georgivs]

Could it be slag from someone brazing?

 

[GoDeep]

Could it be slag from someone brazing?

It sure could be, one thing it isn't, gold,

 

[3cylbill]

Go have it tested , there no way to tell what it is from a photo ....