This looks more like Iron in the picture.
Might be the glass.
Refining iridium Ore
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Might be the glass.
This is not a Crucible, it is a furnace.
And this one is not able to melt Iridium, Pd or maybe not even Platinum.
So have you been able to have some of it tested yet?
Or are you still pushing Rocks?
Man... Sometimes I wish I had that persistence and dedication as this guy 
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Look at the elements in the general metals mode
Fascinated to find someone else who has found so-called micrometeorites ... I've included more XRF results in multiple modes on a different machine... How do we get the iron out ??
Look at the elements in the general metals mode
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The specimens you hold there seems to have formed in water.
Other tell tale is that the Ir show up in precious metal mode, not in general metals.
That means that you probably have arsenic in your sample, not Ir.
The only thing that can clear the uncertainty is to have a proper NiS test done.
Limonite concretions.
Yes, Iron nodules, I have seen mountains full of that kind of ore, I guess I just walked past my fortune, only picking up a few interesting rocks.
There are rivers that I pan in my area that do carry platinum to the ocean, and although I collect gold from these rivers I have not collected platinum, If it gets into my pan, it gets tossed with my black sands.
Historical mining and documents from publications like ore=bin documented and verified the amount of platinum that came out of these rivers, in the later years of the1800's and the first of the 1900s it was only later in history that platinum was recognized and or collected, the early history of mining in this area, miners passed it by unknowingly not knowing what to look for or of its value.
The way I understand it, you should be looking for the soft green rock and ore that the platinum ore is known to be associated with, the same green ore around where the mining industry wants to be able to mine the known large volumes of nickel and chromium ore, the places the mining industry has been denied any permits or access, being shut down by those with climate-mitosis-nosense-d-ediotosis saving their and little owl friends home, or rescuing some red-legged frog or some minnow fish.
I imagine it to look just like the other black sand but of a much higher density, where it would be in that last pan of black sand that you picked or suffered your gold from before dumping the pan.
https://thediggings.com/commodities/platinum/usa/oregon
There are rivers that I pan in my area that do carry platinum to the ocean, and although I collect gold from these rivers I have not collected platinum, If it gets into my pan, it gets tossed with my black sands.
Historical mining and documents from publications like ore=bin documented and verified the amount of platinum that came out of these rivers, in the later years of the1800's and the first of the 1900s it was only later in history that platinum was recognized and or collected, the early history of mining in this area, miners passed it by unknowingly not knowing what to look for or of its value.
The way I understand it, you should be looking for the soft green rock and ore that the platinum ore is known to be associated with, the same green ore around where the mining industry wants to be able to mine the known large volumes of nickel and chromium ore, the places the mining industry has been denied any permits or access, being shut down by those with climate-mitosis-nosense-d-ediotosis saving their and little owl friends home, or rescuing some red-legged frog or some minnow fish.
I imagine it to look just like the other black sand but of a much higher density, where it would be in that last pan of black sand that you picked or suffered your gold from before dumping the pan.
https://thediggings.com/commodities/platinum/usa/oregon
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Thats my new favorite hobby my friend.
There is a known platinum mine within 100 miles of the location where these iron rocks are being found. I'd like to share some aerial photograph of the type of place I like to pan and look for fossils and arrowheads. During the summers now the water completely evaporates from the streams and makes for easy geological sample retrievals.
Thank you all for you insight and strong opinions I am weighing them all in as potential factors, including the Arsenic theory.
My friend in East Europe will soon be able to add to the analysis pool of data we are gathering together.
I have a question, how would an XRF handle possible unknown elements? Would it fill it in as another element ?
Also notice the XRF machine #1 found Copper XRF machine #2 found Cobalt. Could this actually be an unknown element? NiS is obviously in order and I have a couple names that might be interested in running the samples.
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Today there is no unknown elements and in exceedingly rare occasions a new mineral pops up. But then in microsopic size and always composed of “known” elements.
What the XRF do, is it tries to match the spikes with what it has ready available in its current library. This means that As is often interpreted as Ir.
This is a known fact and many members sees this relatively often.
How can you say, there are no unknown elements left? You don't know them…
What's about unknownium?
Or notyetfoundium?
XRF has a couple of notable limitations. It cannot detect light elements, like lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, and phosphorus.
If by unknown elements, you mean elements not in its library, yes, it takes its best guess at what is closest and reports that. The manufacturers sell different libraries to go with their machines. Like the machines, the libraries can be expensive, so most people just buy the libraries they need.
Dave
Well according to the standard model, we have found all stable elements expected and calculated to exist.How can you say, there are no unknown elements left? You don't know them…
What's about unknownium?
Or notyetfoundium?
There may be a few that has not yet been made in the lab/colliders,
but they are very short lived and will not be found in the wild.
I thought that the periodic chart is about filled with elements, even those they predicted would be found, the series of atomic structures, now manmade new elements could be another story, there may be a few blank spaces in the periodic chart to fill, or in the radioactive ranges?
My thinking is that it could be possible that we have not found all of the possible combinations of these elements in our mineral rock, but if they find a new mineral specimen they could find the known elements from our periodic table, but they will not I believe find any new elements.
My thinking is that it could be possible that we have not found all of the possible combinations of these elements in our mineral rock, but if they find a new mineral specimen they could find the known elements from our periodic table, but they will not I believe find any new elements.
You should search for it at the wrong places.In the end I'm the only one that never found a Iridium ore?, so unlucky ,
