Rikki Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abenson Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Doesn't appear to be gold. Looks more like a meteorite or a rock with high iron content. Did you put it up to a magnet? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Sorry, does not look at all like gold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klunker Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Nope. But keep the dream alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Seeker Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 It's not gold and also not a meteorite the best I can tell from a photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 It is not gold but if you only want to prove it is gold, put it in some strong spirit of salt (HCl acid) for a while it will remove/ dissolve the none gold coating and maybe the lot of your find. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reg Wilson Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Dolly it and pan off. Then you will know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyy Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 Maybe you have already found your first nugget. But I remember when I was looking for that first elusive nugget. Pictures of grandeur would enter my mind as I walked miles through gullies over cactus and rattlesnakes. I would dig down 2 feet and repeatedly find nails. And then the old bullets so marred up you would swear it had to be gold or some other precious metal. But it wasn't. But the funny thing is, after I found that first nugget I never asked that question again. I forever knew the feel and look of gold. And I never questioned again, whether unicorns existed. Ok.. too much time at the book store.. google prospecting. And Waaaay too much coffee. Good luck out there!! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 55 minutes ago, Andyy said: Maybe you have already found your first nugget. But I remember when I was looking for that first elusive nugget. Pictures of grandeur would enter my mind as I walked miles through gullies over cactus and rattlesnakes. I would dig down 2 feet and repeatedly find nails. And then the old bullets so marred up you would swear it had to be gold or some other precious metal. But it wasn't. But the funny thing is, after I found that first nugget I never asked that question again. I forever knew the feel and look of gold. And I never questioned again, whether unicorns existed. Ok.. too much time at the book store.. google prospecting. And Waaaay too much coffee. Good luck out there!! How true for most people, but you can be fooled till it gets in your hand. I remember during the early VLF days I got a signal in a contour channel that was done to stop erosion. At this stage of detecting I had found over 50 ounces of gold. That day I was using my wife's Whites Detector when I got the target. I looked down and saw what look like an inch sized rusty nut. I decided to see how well her detector discriminated. It did not reject it like my Garretts would of done (if Iron), so decided to take it back to the Van and show her. It was a real surprise when I got it in my hand it felt heavier than if it was made out of lead, then I knew it was a good nugget. The nugget was a 2 ounce bit once soaked in full strength HCl acid. Before I cleaned it I asked a couple of full time prospectors what they though it was. They all said junk till I dropped in their hand. By the way, in it original form/state I could drag it along the table top with a super magnet much to everybody's surprize. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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