🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Trying to identify any advice is appreciated mahalos hoping it's platinum

[Hawaii]

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[Doubter in MD]

At 28 lbs, this thing is wayyy too light to be platinum.

A 6" x 6" cube of platinum (1/8 CF) would weigh in @ 165 lbs. Based on the photos you took using the tape measure for scale,, your "rock" is nowhere near heavy enough to be platinum.

 

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[pepperj]

You see the small circles those are hammer drill marks in multiple spots that didn't go no where

Hammer drill?
Masonry bit will spin on metal
So that wouldn't drill into the item that you are showing
To state that the hammer drill didn't go no where shows me also you have limited knowledge on the use of a drill and the application of different drill bits.

The item you claim " Platinum " has the hardness of 4.5
Drill bits come in at 8.5

So in reading your claims that this item is Platinum you haven't done any suggestions suggested by the readership.
You state what it looks like in post #53 -so it was cut
Take a piece to a jeweller or and other testing facility (your reluctance makes the readership wonder why not)
You acid test proves nothing-do as Emil suggested in post #55

The weight of your item is 28lbs
Your measurements in post #20 state approx. 12" X 12" X 4" (hard to measure correctly)

So lets play the weight game: 576 cu.in.
Here is the weight of aluminum

If we take your measurements at 50% we have the answer to what it is-ALUMINUM

Your claim of Platinum would have the weight of the following

Now reduce that by 50% in size and still it would weigh 223 pounds
That is nearly 8X what you are claiming for its weight-so it's not Platinum.

In conclusion I would say that you have a 28lb. aluminum sow (sow is used loosely here)
From seeing sows at refineries, back yard sows, scrap yard sows, I would put my dollar on that you have just that but in a different shape.
Seen thousands of tons of aluminum in my career and good amount of PMs. (That was my business nonferrous/alloys/PMs recycling)

Honestly your piece is worth very little as it has been remelted-the problem lies with contents of item (contaminated with something else that isn't what the exterior states in a test)
If I bought this item off you for $10
My brokers would not of bought this off of me because of that very fact.
So it would be thrown in a bin for export to China and sold to the broker for $12
That's reality of what you have-no more/no less.

 

[Emil W]

A trip to any jeweler or scrapper would have made it clear that this is not platinum. You've had almost a year to do that, plenty of time to take it to dozens of jewelers for multiple opinions. Yet you're still here trying to convince us it's something that it's not.

 

[Hawaii]

A trip to any jeweler or scrapper would have made it clear that this is not platinum. You've had almost a year to do that, plenty of time to take it to dozens of jewelers for multiple opinions. Yet you're still here trying to convince us it's something that it's not.

Not trying to convince you it's something else and I'm an electrician so I know what bits to use I'm just trying to see if anyone would know or know someone I can take it to I have a friend that worked for NASA and is pretty knowledgeable he got a 8 on the density test but still scratching his head as to what it is he said it might even be a metal thats never been found yet

 

[robertk]

it might even be a metal thats never been found yet

I suppose that's theoretically possible but it seems extremely unlikely.

 

[Doubter in MD]

Maybe it's unobtainium or vibranium!

 

[Emil W]

Maybe it's unobtainium or vibranium!

More likely than platinum

 

[Emil W]

Not trying to convince you it's something else and I'm an electrician so I know what bits to use I'm just trying to see if anyone would know or know someone I can take it to I have a friend that worked for NASA and is pretty knowledgeable he got a 8 on the density test but still scratching his head as to what it is he said it might even be a metal thats never been found yet

Your "friend at NASA" lacks a basic knowledge of physics. The periodic table is well established. The heavier elements on the table are created by man and some of those last only fractions of a second once created. There are no missing elements in the periodic table as evidenced by the atomic numbers of each--there are no holes in the table. There are laws in physics determining how atomic nuclei can be formed, all well understood. Although it may be possible that a star with enough mass could end its life in producing elements unknow to us, those unknown elements would be too unstable to last due to their atomic weights, and those possible ultra-massive stars are theoretical only--there is no evidence they exist elsewhere in the universe. Even if they do exist, they did not create the elements in the periodic table--these elements were all created within stars who's masses are well understood and they did not have the necessary mass to create these supposed "unknown metals".