found gold

[athometoo]

not sure what this is , found on a creekbed . was gold color and after using silver polish and tooth brush it tuned silver or white bright . non magnetic and wont spark on a grinder . any ideas? picked up a double handfull , it was half buried in shale rocks . any other tests to perform? think im going to go back and pick up the rest to put in my rock garden . heres a pic of the ones cleaned

 

[athometoo]

could it have been slag from a foundry? there is a t.o.c rroad bridge 300 yards upstream .

 

[athometoo]

also i did use a giger counter on it , we use it at work for p.m on our scanners . this is what else i found at the site . not a very productive day on the bottle side . do the rest of you pass this stuff up when walking creeks or am i just a weird feller who like to put unusual things in a rock garden . thanks for any help im kinda leary of asking someone to run an acid test to see if theres any gold content to it . dont want to look foolish . there is probally a five gallon bucket full i left on the creek bed . anyway thanks again , hopefully i can find some glass next time . sam

 

[DiggerBryan]

Hey nice finds! I don't know what the little silver globs are but they're pretty cool! What is the thing below them? A fossil of some type? Pretty sweet whatever it is. I am the same way though. Being an artifact collector where ever there are rocks my eyes are always glued to the ground. Drove the girlfriend up the wall

 

[GuntherHess]

The rocks look like they may be a form of pyrite.

Nice big cephalopod fragment.

 

[southern Maine diver]

Hey Sam...

You will know gold when you see it. I too was out diving for bottles last week and found some gold... in the form of false teeth!!!![][][]

Don't know how old they are, but it looks like they are a set of "bottom chompers" with inlaid 18kt gold !!! kind of neat. I brought them home and my wife wanted nothing to do with them... but my 17 year old son "Nathan" said, "Cool..." and put them into his mouth!!! Go figure.

Anyway, i will be putting them into the acid bath to try an clean them up. I'll take some more pics and then put the gold into the "rainy day" jar. Never know what you're gonna find in or out of the water.

Wayne

 

[southern Maine diver]

Another shot... The teeth are all hand made and filed... custom fit I'd say... any dentists out there to give me an idea on the age????[:-]

 

[cordilleran]

Great observation, Gunther. Appears to be marcasite concretions given the geological formation they were found and the mineral's silvery appearance. Both iron pyrite and marcasite are iron disulfides (FeS2). The difference is in crystalization. Both are brittle upon fracture rather than malleable, hence the name for both minerals traditionally known as "fool's gold".

 

[Poison_Us]

A few of pyrites traditional tells are:
it usually has a black hue to it. It's also in cube shaped crystals and clumps of crystals. Gold is usually curvy, globular or anything but in a crystalline form. Pyrite also flakes when picked at, like mica.

 

[GuntherHess]

Crystal form gold...
http://www.crystalclassics.co.uk/UserFiles/old-site/Image/articles/denver%20show/denver06-153.jpg