DesertNuggets

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  1. Well I torched her again but this time for longer. She is looking much more like gold now. I'd say the brassyness is gone and it's just a light yellow now. Looks just like lower purity gold. I give up on specific gravity tests. With a sowing string I get 19.33. With a paper clip I get 10.54 or 11.6 depending on where the nugget is in the water column.
  2. Thanks everyone. I torched it. Same color. Still brassy. I soaked it in pure 10k test solution and it didn't even react. Maybe I'll try higher. The little window I created when I did my gold/silver/platinum test is pure brassy. None of that black stuff is on the inside. Still no luck finding an XRF scanner. Gold buyers and jewelry stores are who I should be calling right?
  3. Thanks guys and Rob. I was thinking maybe electrum with some sort of pgm. Palladium maybe. Maybe it failed the silver test because it's alloyed? Or maybe my silver test solution is bad. It's a couple years old. Or just might not have silver in it. I'm going to try to find a place to XRF it for me.
  4. I found this metal detecting the other day. I didn't think much of it until I got home.. It was like 80% black. Some sort of tarnish. This is what it looks like after a short soak in acid. Its a brassy color in the sunlight. Extremely heavy for its size. Looks well traveled and that makes sense considering where I found it. It passes a 14k gold test but nothing higher. Fails platinum and silver tests. Dry weight: 1.16g Specific gravity: 19.33
  5. Not tactical boots but I love my Timberlands. I'm on my 3rd or 4th pair.
  6. I was just wondering where all those posts went. No problem. We will rebuild.
  7. Stunning. I'm also a huge fan of those scorched gold specimens. It had a hot violent history. Great job.
  8. Yes I let him be. He didn't bother me so I wasn't about to bother him.
  9. Yesterday while prospecting I took a break under a mesquite tree. Before I sat down I checked the area for snakes. I sat on a nice rock. I had my snake guards on. It had just rained so the temperature quickly dropped to the high 60's. I ate a granola bar and drank some water. As I got up I noticed a large fat rattle snake coiled up about a foot from me. I could've pet it I was so close. I guess he was there the whole time. Blended in perfectly. No rattling or anything. He had plenty of opportunities to strike my back. His head wasn't visible. He was bound nice and tight. I guess he was cold. Anyway. Close call! Thank you colder weather! Snake guards wouldn't have protected my back.