Native Silver? found in Florida

[Always_Seek_The_Treasure]

Found on private treasure coast beach property about 50-75 yards from the surf. I also found a boat load of Native American pottery, and petrified pieces of wood that appeared to have been worked. I focused my search around where I thought the waterline may have been long ago. You can't see in the pictures posted l, but the item seems to have different colored stones lodged into it. Any thoughts on what it actually is? It does not react to a magnet, and melts ice on contact. It's light weight.

 

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[Bruce R]

Beer can someone threw into their beach party campfire?

 

[Always_Seek_The_Treasure]

Light weight, but not that light. It's definitely not aluminum. I cleaned of about an eight inch worth of white crud, and black/green crud. There wasn't any sign of a fire either.

 

[Bruce R]

Campfire below the high tide line? A jeweler can test it. There's a lot of alum. alloys, some heavier than others.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

It looks like melted cans from bon fire....

 

[Bruce R]

If it walks like a duck.......

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Found on private treasure coast beach property about 50-75 yards from the surf. I also found a boat load of Native American pottery, and petrified pieces of wood that appeared to have been worked. I focused my search around where I thought the waterline may have been long ago. You can't see in the pictures posted l, but the item seems to have different colored stones lodged into it. Any thoughts on what it actually is? It does not react to a magnet, and melts ice on contact. It's light weight. View attachment 1310733View attachment 1310734View attachment 1310735View attachment 1310736

You searched where you thought the waterline was? Wow. How deep did you dig?

There are a lot of people on TN that have been searching the Treasure Coast for years and there is a very good site to get helpful hints http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/ Where ever the old waterline is, believe me, unless recently lost, dense silver and gold is under many feet of sand especially in the dunes. Add beach restoration on top of that. But the sands are always shifting. Pottery will move with the waves. So my point is thats its very hard to find old heavy metals unless we have a storm.. Preferably a hurricane to strip the beach sand. I guess its not impossible but highly unlikely to find old heavy metal in deep beach sands. I maybe could give you more information if I knew your area.

Your find is most likely a fire nugget. You would be surprised how heavy melted aluminum will feel in your hand. If yours is very light, it could even be a melted foil pack. We all have buckets of fire nuggets. We even have a Fire Nugget Club here at TN. Im not sure what exactly they do. I guess they get
together, show off their finds and refute silver testing methods.

In the slim possibility that its melted silver, you should have it tested. But please have it tested by someone knowlegable on silver testing.

I would love to see pictures of the petrified wood. I found a piece myself rolling in the surf at Rio Mar.. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/95456-petrified-wood-underwater.html

 

[Always_Seek_The_Treasure]

You searched where you thought the waterline was? Wow. How deep did you dig?

There are a lot of people on TN that have been searching the Treasure Coast for years and there is a very good site to get helpful hints http://treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com/ Where ever the old waterline is, believe me, unless recently lost, dense silver and gold is under many feet of sand especially in the dunes. Add beach restoration on top of that. But the sands are always shifting. Pottery will move with the waves. So my point is thats its very hard to find old heavy metals unless we have a storm.. Preferably a hurricane to strip the beach sand. I guess its not impossible but highly unlikely to find old heavy metal in deep beach sands. I maybe could give you more information if I knew your area.

Your find is most likely a fire nugget. You would be surprised how heavy melted aluminum will feel in your hand. If yours is very light, it could even be a melted foil pack. We all have buckets of fire nuggets. We even have a Fire Nugget Club here at TN. Im not sure what exactly they do. I guess they get
together, show off their finds and refute silver testing methods.

In the slim possibility that its melted silver, you should have it tested. But please have it tested by someone knowlegable on silver testing.

I would love to see pictures of the petrified wood. I found a piece myself rolling in the surf at Rio Mar.. http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/95456-petrified-wood-underwater.html

Thanks BigC. That is all very helpful information. Fire has a funny way of making trash look like treasure. Might test it for the hell of it. Out of curiosity what creates the red, yellow, and green stones or crystals? From now on I will be posting on TNET before I search the web. I found several other objects to clean and share. Fingers crossed.

 

[Always_Seek_The_Treasure]

It looks like melted cans from bon fire....

Hahaha trash mirage strikes again.

 

[Always_Seek_The_Treasure]

If it walks like a duck.......

Quacks like a melted can of nothing

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Hahaha trash mirage strikes again.

We been finding these for decades.........

 

[Always_Seek_The_Treasure]

We been finding these for decades.........

That's exactly why I appreciate this forum.