✅ SOLVED Where to begin......

[hollARDog]

So when being new to identifying found objects what's good practice, pointers, how-to's? I found this item a few weeks ago and have no clue where to begin on cleaning? Cutting in half? Melting? Smashing did nothing,lol

Any help in direction will be greatly appreciated 🤘

Non-magnetic
13.99grams (feels very heavy for size to me) will work on specific gravity(2.332)
Solid 85 tone on the trusty Ace 250
My 1st attempt on a streak test was a shiny silver color on the Jon lid.

 

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[Dougie Webb]

*Might* be slag. IIRC, though, slag generally doesn't leave a streak. Is it relatively heavy/light for its size? On my Ace, I found a lot of aluminum slag when I hit those same numbers. Does it attract a magnet at all? I assume not but just checking.

Use that scale and a glass of water to find its specific gravity: and post the result here and tag me.

 

[hollARDog]

*Might* be slag. IIRC, though, slag generally doesn't leave a streak. Is it relatively heavy/light for its size? On my Ace, I found a lot of aluminum slag when I hit those same numbers. Does it attract a magnet at all? I assume not but just checking.

Use that scale and a glass of water to find its specific gravity: and post the result here and tag me.

Updated OG post👍

 

[hollARDog]

Rings a solid 80 on the new F5🤔 @Dougie Webb

 

[crashbandicoot]

Rings a solid 80 on the new F5🤔 @Dougie Webb

Hope it,s the good stuff Dog! When you got time tell us how you like that new F5.

 

[hollARDog]

Im so new I love it already. So much quieter and enjoyable tones🤘
But I'll definitely keep ya posted. I got alot of land to search. And a side note, I got permission from the mayor of the next town over to dic around any city property

 

[crashbandicoot]

Im so new I love it already. So much quieter and enjoyable tones🤘
But I'll definitely keep ya posted. I got alot of land to search. And a side note, I got permission from the mayor of the next town over to dic around any city property

Kudos to you fellow Arkie. Go get em!

 

[hollARDog]

Thank ya sir

Kudos to you fellow Arkie. Go get em!

 

[Dougie Webb]

@hollARDog those numbers and that SG lead me to suspect a melted aluminum can from a fire. You find it in the woods somewhere where folks might have been drinking beer around a fire?

Check out this picture of a melted can:

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May 12, 2014 - A piece of molten aluminum found, -probably from a melted beer can or something like that. Our son liked it, kept it.

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[hollARDog]

So I'm safe to clean/scratch/pick at the crust layer?

@hollARDog those numbers and that SG lead me to suspect a melted aluminum can from a fire. You find it in the woods somewhere where folks might have been drinking beer around a fire?

Check out this picture of a melted can:

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May 12, 2014 - A piece of molten aluminum found, -probably from a melted beer can or something like that. Our son liked it, kept it.

www.pinterest.ca

 

[Gare]

Nice finds Nice setup

 

[hollARDog]

Well I choose "cut"
Tossed that piece in my pocket this morn so while I was out feeding id swing in the shop and cut this bad boy in half.
I'ma have to argee aluminum 👍🤘💪
@Dougie Webb thanks man

 

[crashbandicoot]

Little late,but it,s not Bauxite is it?

 

[hollARDog]

Little late,but it,s not Bauxite is it?

Hahaha, not a clue buddy.

 

[hollARDog]

Ok, so that was today's lesson. So the above mentioned is pretty much laumans terms, aluminum ore? Very well could be. I do live in heavy red clay area. How does one go about distinguishing between melted can or bauxite?

 

[crashbandicoot]

Ok, so that was today's lesson. So the above mentioned is pretty much laumans terms, aluminum ore? Very well could be. I do live in heavy red clay area. How does one about distinguishing between melted can or bauxite?

Don,t really know,it was a guess.Bauxite was once plentiful in Arkansas,there,s even a town named Bauxite.The ore looks a lot like your item.

 

[hollARDog]

Still reading up on Bauxite this mornin with coffee. The more pics I look at the more I'm still thinkin Dougie was on point. But it has lead me to a new species of rock I now want. I've always had an "eye" for different and I thought miss placed rocks. But that's as far as it's went. Never learned about them. Then moved here and found a yuge quartz vein or 3 running through the property. So that got me 🤔 a little harder about the ground which I walk. But this mornin during my much needed research I stumbled across Unakite. Now I feel I need a wild specimen of this👁️

 

[crashbandicoot]

Still reading up on Bauxite this mornin with coffee. The more pics I look at the more I'm still thinkin Dougie was on point. But it has lead me to a new species of rock I now want. I've always had an "eye" for different and I thought miss placed rocks. But that's as far as it's went. Never learned about them. Then moved here and found a yuge quartz vein or 3 running through the property. So that got me 🤔 a little harder about the ground which I walk. But this mornin during my much needed research I stumbled across Unakite. Now I feel I need a wild specimen of this👁️

There was a bauxite pit North of Pine Bluff alongside old Hwy.65. I remember it from a child.Alcoa had a smelting plant near Hot Springs if I remember right,been a long time so I could be wrong about that.At one time samples of bauxite ore were common in rock shops and flea markets.I once had some but they got lost as I grew up. Arkansas was once a pretty big player in the aluminum game.

 

[Dougie Webb]

I was looking up "raw bauxite ore" and came up with this

look different to me

 

[hollARDog]

I was looking up "raw bauxite ore" and came up with this

look different to me

I was finding alot of pics too. Alot of different types but since I cut this in half and it's solid shiny core with just a crust layer I'm staying with the can in fire🤘