Ordered some gold/silver test kit

[oz_il]

Sooner or later I have to figure out which of my marked stuff is the real deal

The stuff i find on the surface is suspect. If I dig something up that has been in the ground for a few years it is much easier to tell if it is gold or fake.
Alas, most of my stuff is surface tot lot and let's just say a rose by any other name may not be a rose, or should I say 14K :P

 

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[Brett]

Can you link us to the kits? I've been interested in those. Sometimes you find those blobs of melted lead that look too shiny to be lead... maybe aluminum... but hey maybe silver!

 

[oz_il]

Can you link us to the kits? I've been interested in those. Sometimes you find those blobs of melted lead that look too shiny to be lead... maybe aluminum... but hey maybe silver!

There's a lot of places that sell these kits. Some include platinum, some exclude silver, etc. I have no clue if one 'set' is better than the other.

I got mine through amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VAZB8K

KellyCo has one, but it just shows 2 bottles so I didn't want to take a chance.

I guess if you have a blob and a good burner you could probably determing the metal by its melting point. After all, it was already melted.

Lead is the easiest - you can scratch it with your fingernails. I've found quite a few chuncks of the stuff, give it to someone who makes fishing weights.

 

[russau]

OR you can use unglazed tile(on the back of galzed bathroom tile)to do your comparison scratch test. get a sample of all the karets,14,18,24 whatever and scratch them heavily on this tile to leave a good mark for each of them and allow a large area next to this for your sample scratchs to see what karet gold you have found. real simple to do. and you dont have to buy anything!