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Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold or not? Interesting Find
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<blockquote data-quote="echidnadigger" data-source="post: 13314" data-attributes="member: 719"><p>Hello everyone here, This is my first post on this forum,</p><p>I have also found these weird little finds in the past and found them to be what I think is bronze slag. Close inspection usually finds the little bubble dents left behind from the smelting process. I may be wrong, but I found on all counts it was not gold. The idea of it being a gold/mercury mix is interesting but as far as I know the color is wrong. Gold and mercury tends to be a bit of a bright, lighter yellow color for the want of a better description.</p><p>I hope I'm wrong because I have got some of this stuff in the scrap box in the garage.</p><p>Dangerous but true, putting the mercury gold mix in a potato and cooking it in a fire will absorb the mercury into the potato and leave your gold inside the spud when it cools. Don't try this though as mercury is dangerous unless you know exactly what you are doing. Do not ever breath the fumes from mercury.</p><p>Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="echidnadigger, post: 13314, member: 719"] Hello everyone here, This is my first post on this forum, I have also found these weird little finds in the past and found them to be what I think is bronze slag. Close inspection usually finds the little bubble dents left behind from the smelting process. I may be wrong, but I found on all counts it was not gold. The idea of it being a gold/mercury mix is interesting but as far as I know the color is wrong. Gold and mercury tends to be a bit of a bright, lighter yellow color for the want of a better description. I hope I'm wrong because I have got some of this stuff in the scrap box in the garage. Dangerous but true, putting the mercury gold mix in a potato and cooking it in a fire will absorb the mercury into the potato and leave your gold inside the spud when it cools. Don't try this though as mercury is dangerous unless you know exactly what you are doing. Do not ever breath the fumes from mercury. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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