Copper nugget ?

[hatpin]

I hunted a local park for about an hour this morning, until I got to hot to hunt. I was searching along the edge of the road, very hard digging and lots of signals in the asphalt . Several targets I gave up on.I did find one smashed ring. Looks like gold plated with polished sandstone maybe . I have found a lot of fake jewelry this year and not one real piece. Also found what looks to be a copper nugget. There is no copper around here. It must have been shipped in with road gravel at one time.

Looks like its time for a new camera. I could not get a focused picture.

Using a Vaquero .

 

[kaolinwasher]

It maybe a real copper nugett give it a scratch on a stone and see what color it is , where do you live if its by the great lakes it could be , but you just never know what is on the gravel road, it can get interesting

 

[supertraq]

You never know,transformer may have blown many years ago,house burned and then it fell off a truck hauling the debris to a land fill,etc.

 

[Rainyday101]

Like Gunnar said, up by Lake Superior in Upper Mich. or just about anywhere in the U.P., they hunt for copper nuggets and some of them are pretty big. I'm talking hundreds of pounds big.

 

[tabman]

I haven't found a copper nugget yet. The Vaquero does a great job finding just about anything. Especially nickels and gold rings.

tabman

 

[hatpin]

I live in Northern missouri. I scratched it and it is reddish brown .

 

[kaolinwasher]

It looks like melted copper just not corroded enough but i would not put it out of the possibility of copper being traded down to missouri, the vaq did well finding copper nuggets very well and deep to the Vaq blows the Can off the outlaw depth wise.

 

[nge]

i dug a 1 pound piece of "float" copper here in lower Michigan....nge