Hi Friends,
When I was in Arizona a couple weekends ago, I panned out some desert dirt looking for gold. I found a few micro pieces of gold in my test buckets so hardly worth posting about, however, I did find one silver nugget… check it out:
I call this a silver nugget, but actually I am not sure how to test to verify it is silver. I found it in a dry creekbed below an active lode gold/silver mine. I know it is metal as my pinpointer screamed when it touched it. I put the nugget on the scale and it came in at:
That is 1.19 grains and there are 480 gains in a troy ounce. With silver at $15.70 per troy ounce, the value of this nugget is $0.04 in US Dollars. Lol. Here is the nugget and the gold together:
However, maybe it’s a palladium nugget which is worth $1,900 per ounce?? Maybe a platinum nugget at $750 per ounce??
Anybody here that can help me with the identification? 😊
Thanks for coming by,
Brian