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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 646685" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>try instead with a steel needle while looking under a hand lens. The mica flakes should prize apart along the layering you will see in them. Then break them with the needle. You won't break gold, it is soft and malleable (the puttey of metals)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 646685, member: 4386"] try instead with a steel needle while looking under a hand lens. The mica flakes should prize apart along the layering you will see in them. Then break them with the needle. You won't break gold, it is soft and malleable (the puttey of metals) [/QUOTE]
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