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 Topic: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
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| WatchGrassGrow Replies: 14 Views: 10124 |
 Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 20, 2022 01:27 Subject: Re: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
| and don't eat the rock at all
Steve I feel like an idiot. I watch lots of Australian detectorists put gold nuggets in their mouth to clean them off, and I was so excited at finding a really heavy ... |
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| WatchGrassGrow Replies: 14 Views: 10124 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 19, 2022 13:42 Subject: Re: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
| Find out the mine name (from maps) and that will help you. Then see what they mined there.
I did a bit more research, and I couldn't find this mines name, but I found out the ore body nearby con ... |
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| WatchGrassGrow Replies: 14 Views: 10124 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 19, 2022 12:16 Subject: Re: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
| My concern on the shiny nugget is that it might be an alloy containing radioactive material. Also while I was out hunting this spot a couple guys came by and suggested that I might want to wear a mas ... | |
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| WatchGrassGrow Replies: 14 Views: 10124 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 19, 2022 12:06 Subject: Re: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
| Here is the same nodule in the picture above broken open. You can see its not shiny metal like the nugget, but I found pounds of whatever this metal is. Its heavy but not nearly as heavy as the shin ... | |
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| WatchGrassGrow Replies: 14 Views: 10124 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 19, 2022 11:53 Subject: Re: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
| Here are the dull grey nodules I mentioned above next to a galena and rose quartz specimen I found in the same dry wash only feet away. | |
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| WatchGrassGrow Replies: 14 Views: 10124 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 19, 2022 11:35 Subject: Re: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
| It seems although over time its tarnished a little from a more whiter silver to a more grey silver but I don't want to polish it again in case its toxic. I'd say half of the rock is metal. | |
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| WatchGrassGrow Replies: 14 Views: 10124 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 19, 2022 11:25 Subject: Should I be concerned about this nugget? |
| Its coated in a thick layer of scale colored orange brown and yellow tan. Found it with my metal detector in Arizona below an abandoned mine shaft. I looked up info on the old shaft, but didn't lear ... | |
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