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Can you guys help me identify? MS pt digging for a stem cell transplant.

BellaT

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I’m a silversmith who is absolutely clueless about gold. Text will be short in my posts…… feel like sh#* 24/7.
 

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Crush it to a powder.
Pan it. If it moves easily in water it's pyrite.
If it sticks to the bottom swishing the water.
It's a heavy metal. Possibly gold.
A little info.
 
If it flakes off in a little shiny flakes when you scrape it, it is not gold. It would be muscovite or, more likely, phlogopite. These are both phyllosilicates (sheet silicates in the same family as biotite).
 
Crush one of flakes , if it turns to powder and smells of sulfur it ain't gold , if it simply flattens , celebrate!!!
 
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