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03-04-2008, 11:42 PM
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Metal Nugget
The city recently burnt down an very old house by where I live. I found this new open field a prospect. While detecting on it I found a large metallic nugget, silver is color, but unable to bend by hand( or cut with a knife). It does pass my iron discriminate, but I am at a loss of what kind of metal, or what exactly it is.
Could you let me know how to tell what kind of metal I found? Thanks in advance! 
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03-04-2008, 11:57 PM
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Does it stick to a magnet?
Earl
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03-05-2008, 07:27 AM
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Metal
Either the magnet test like Earl say's or you can take it by a jeweler and have him test it.
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03-05-2008, 07:36 AM
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I dig something like that up all the time at different sites. Pickes up as coin, but just a melted chunk of metal. I always think it is aluminum or something like that that has been melted.
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03-05-2008, 07:42 AM
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molten metal
If the city burned the old houseit could be nearly anything,last year in the paper here,forest fires swept through a small town in the mountains they showed the charred remains of a 4 wheeler and the engine and alloy wheels&etc.that were on it had molten into puddles on the ground below the metal frame. that was a hot dang fire!
Hank
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03-05-2008, 01:29 PM
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I tested the metal with a large, high-powered neodymium magnet. Didn't stick what so ever.
Here is a high detailed picture of the metal For what ever reason, it looks more brown in the picture, but its quite metallic silver.
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03-06-2008, 06:47 AM
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I agree with Rob & Hank, melted Aluminum.
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03-06-2008, 11:15 AM
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I agree with the others. From the pictures it looks like wadded up aluminum foil from the fire. But what does it feel like weight wise?
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