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Ray83
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 Posted: Jan 31, 2022 18:19 Post subject: Idk what it is |
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Found it in parking lot in TX
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| It was a bigger piece and this broke off when dropped |
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kushmeja
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| Posted: Jan 31, 2022 18:29 Post subject: Re: Idk what it is |
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Almost certainly NOT platinum - extremely unlikely to just find a nugget of platinum anywhere, and for sure not TX.
It's probably pyrite, aka fool's gold, but it is impossible to tell for sure based on a relatively poor pic alone. Pyrite is often fairly brittle, so it would make sense that it broke off of a larger piece as you mentioned.
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Ray83
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| Posted: Jan 31, 2022 18:53 Post subject: Re: Idk what it is |
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| Yes it was brittle it's approximately 22grams very shiny it seems not to be brittle the smaller it is but over all is hard in the same sense I rubbed it on a piece of sandpaper
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Ray83
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| Posted: Jan 31, 2022 18:55 Post subject: Re: Idk what it is |
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It looks gold in pics but not in person why is that
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SteveB
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| Posted: Jan 31, 2022 19:46 Post subject: Re: Idk what it is |
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| Ray83 wrote: | | It looks gold in pics but not in person why is that |
Mobile phones are configured for making “pretty pictures” not photographs and certainly not accurate “true” photographs” and are not color accurate or recorded with an accurate color space so people viewing on their computers/devices get to see colors with any degree of accuracy, then there's your camera settings, white balance procedure for the light source you used, that’s a simplification of your question “why is that”.
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Matt_Zukowski
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| Posted: Feb 01, 2022 15:52 Post subject: Re: Idk what it is |
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You should look at your pictures before you post them. They are impossibly blurry.
That said - it is probably pyrite. To learn more about pyrite, go to the mindat page on pyrite:
https://www.mindat.org/min-3314.html
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Ray83
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| Posted: Feb 01, 2022 20:57 Post subject: Re: Idk what it is |
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Sorry bout that
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