Jealousy doesn’t get anywhere alchemy has been around for centuries fire is all I need to easy these metals I’ll melt it all then sell it as solid no matersHere we go again
Richest rhodium ores in the world picked somewhere on waste rock pile... Measured with wanky XRF in improper mode, uncallibrated, and there it is - another rhodium "miracle"
And yes this nothing short of miracles no doubt a blessing for a king
Send me adress brother I’ll send u good sample ok [email protected]I still havnt recieved my chunck for testing?
Well then you are better than all kinds of prospectors here.
It’s still rhodium pal any way u melt it brother u can do what ever u want with it ok u ready for sample
I’m laughing yes u will never provoke negative outcome from Me there is no substitute for experience the proof is in the melting point then I’ll sell it to metal refiners ! Although chemical process is most adequate
This is fairly common theme here. You aren´t first with miraculous rhodium content ore. Thing is that it is always only rhodium, iridium or ruthenium - pattern replicate through all of these "ore" threads
And then you discover, that accordingly to the machine, your house is built from "rhodium ore", sand on the road contain rhodium, pyrite contain rhodium, iron ores all contain rhodium etc etc. And we all unaware cannot take that opportunity to become rich in instance Melting point is usable only for pure substances. And I will watch how you can reliably measure melting point of Rh
If there is any rhodium, it isn´t in it´s metallic form.
It’s prevalent around ore deposit that simple it’s not rocket science when it melts and u have metal iron ore and all the rest of the metals that we know are present with large iron ore deposits rare earth minerals RICH RICH RICH SO IF IT IS Areassociated with iron ore and the melting point is over three thousand degree melting point . It’s platinum based metals simple as that ! And that determines what it is 100 percent then they can assay it I have to go do more high gradeingThis is fairly common theme here. You aren´t first with miraculous rhodium content ore. Thing is that it is always only rhodium, iridium or ruthenium - pattern replicate through all of these "ore" threads
It has a reason. XRF machines loaded on precious metals mode cannot cope with light element matrix (eg rock, sand) and get lost in computation of diffractions and excitation energies. Signals of light elements overlay with signals of some metals - espetially that of rhodium, osmium, iridium and ruthenium. And as XRF cannot know what it have in front, due to this skewed diffractions and assumptions - it will tell you that there is loads of precious metals - because that is the best it can tell you on this mode with said sample.
Most of the machines has also Geochemical mode - this mode is more suitable for measuring light element matrixes. Still very inproper way how to determine PM content. Assay is needed. Not regular fire assay, but specialized nickel sulfide assay for platinum metals. Or at least ICP measurement.
XRF is only reliable for measuring solid metal samples, if not exhaustively callibrated for some specific type of material - eg. pulverized catalytic materials etc.
Not jealousy, but sober reality. You can indeed have some PGMs in sulfidic NiCo ores, that is undoubtly true, few ppm´s could be very real. But several % of Rh is too good to be true.
This theme is periodically appearing here on the forum, just scroll for similar thread names - every year few dozen of cases. In every case it ends with accusations of jealousy and the person cannot take any advice or face reality. And if it somehow ends up in any real assay of material, there is fat zero PGMs
PS: Take several random rocks from your garden, or another wastepile, back of the road, some pyritized samples, anything... Take like 7 different pieces and shot them all with that machine
Rhodium is one of few rarest elements in Earth. Think about it.
Then go for it. But in sake of saving your time I will proceed with assay first. High grading is tedious and eats time. Look what big guys do and try to replicate it. They invested millions to their operation, and it is probably the most high-end process in current state of knowledge.
very unreliable. If Rh is here, it alloy with iron and other elements when reductively smelted. And all melting point testing is completely trash - don´t say anything valuable. No reputable and prosperous company measure melting point of alloys to determine their composition My wife's brother in law is an engineer in Colombia. His family is still in the emerald business, but used to be in the silver ore extraction and smelting business until the early 19th century. They originally found Ag ore in the grayish whitish variegated condition that Yggdrasil mentioned in the mountains where they mined for emeralds. They were never capable of doing anything with the "platina" they often labored to part from the silver, it had no value and no practical application, so they ignored it. Separate from that, they found amazing alluvial emeralds in mountain rivulets and streams whose banks were composed of a tough slightly spongey dark blue matrix, so dark it was black optically. It was shot through with streaks of silvery metal, and golden metal, tiny crystalline lumps, and it has a massive weight and density. They still had some bags of it in their taller when I married, which they gave to us with old alluvial emeralds, and some from Brazil, too (they were Portugese originally). So, I have six kilos of this KIMBERLITE. His family still owns the land on which it was found, near the cordillera. The crystalline lumps are diamonds. Down hill of this, and downhill from some of the old silver mines, they still own some of those, too, are dumps of the material Shecker mentioned, a sort of black sand. The geologic deposit extends across the international border into Venezuela. Good luck there, and good luck in Petro's Colombia. I am holding the kimberlite to preserve it as samples, but would love to try to refine some of Shecker's material. I am catching up on projects I had to put aside due to several major surgeries, am just about up to date. And will be heading west again here in the US, I hope, in Spring to check my PM and gem claims. Anybody like Benitoite or Red Beryl? I also have lumps of a similar dark bluish-black mineral from my North American claims, some large, some small more like chips. They're all shot through with silvery and golden colors, not pyrites.
Well I called them rocks, since it is not tested, most things not tested falls in that category
Yeah, that is completely plausible, and PGM occured alongside silver in ores in Latin America.
Give me address I’ll send u three diffrent type ore samplesI still havnt recieved my chunck for testing?
He haven't been here since November, so it may take time before you get a reply.
Well give me adress ok so I can send u a box of rocks Froggy let’s get with it ok tons of this ok let’s find out who’ knows what platinum and palladium look like I know soon they will also let’s do this !
Thanks so who can I get to prove to u it’s valuable beyond anything and test value refine it and sell it ok
You do not need to prove it to me.
Hi Glyn,
