I see hematite with my eyes. Could be, couldn´t be... Assay sayTaking this bad boy in to get it authenticated and appraised tomorrow! Feeling pretty high for a white guy
How does one go about authenticating a rock? I’m not trying to be disrespectful here but all of my experience with precious metals comes long after they have left the rocks behind.Taking this bad boy in to get it authenticated and appraised tomorrow!
Extraordinary claims demand evidence.Taking this bad boy in to get it authenticated and appraised tomorrow! Feeling pretty high for a white guy
What does this relate to?
Lots of extraordinary finds in last weeks... Prospectors are certainly busy out there As far as I know, osmiridium is pretty corrosion resistant alloy. Very hard - I would expect that alluvial OsIr nugget will have very little to no quartz on it, because it will all come off along the way in the stream. And also retain some rough edges that will more likely crumble, not bevel to the polished shape. Not soft like Pt or gold, this is very very hard metallic alloy. And has shiny metallic luster, certainly not looking like hematite Specimen/nugget that big would weigh that much, that not very much people could confidently hold it in one hand All that ingrown quartz, rusty look... It reminds me of hematite stones, commonly found in the rivers here, flowing away from iron ore deposits Yeah, it is certainly nice to find one that big, but not amazing enough to call it osmiridiumExtraordinary claims demand evidence.
So far the only thing I have seen is claims and no evidence, not from the Electrum and certainly not here, so we are waiting in awe.
Well if it is Iridosmium or Osmiridium it’s SG wold be around 22 ish.
Which means a nugget would be around 180ml in volume.
Easy enough to check.
What I see in the picture is way bigger.
And interestingly enough, when I searched the net the biggest nugget I found pictures of was the size of a big thumb.
I don't know about that Lou, I have an Aunt who would dwarf a tiger!It's like saying you found an aunt the size of a tiger.
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