hiddencloud
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Hello to all,
After I found the chunk of silver last week a couple of my friends have warned me that there could be various poisons and gasses around silver that is 200 to 300 years old.
Is this something to b e concerned about and if so how would one protect oneself from this.
I would not normally be concerned, what are the chances of me finding more right. However, as I mentioned in my first post none of my readings were deeper than 4 inches, not one.
So I reread the manual and realized I had my quick draw 2 on the lowest sensitivity level as wall as the all metal setting. I want out two nights ago with the sensitivity level at max and the auto notch engaged and started getting a lot of 50 cent hits and 1 dollar hits every square foot at 6in to 8in deep.( in my 6 square foot test area there was at least 10 hits in the 25 cent to one dollar coin range) The piece of ingot I found registers as 10 cent to my machine and was only 3 in deep, I am assuming that means that there is a lot more there and larger pieces. Is this a correct assumption? and if so do I need to take protective measures in handling the finds. What about a large find like a catch, would it be dangerous to handle a large amount of silver in contraband ingot size? The official Spanish ingots were made into 80 pound molds, 5 to 6 inches thick, mine was about one half inch thick. As it was ilegal to produce such ingots there could very well be a catch waiting to be found. Especially after two revaluations in two hundred years.
I found lots of small pieces of charcoal within a couple of inches of the piece of ingot I found which would imply that they were smelting the silver there. I am not really wanting to get cyanide poisoning as that was the major chemical used in refining silver here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would love to post a pic of the silver but the file is to big for the site.
Thanks,
Hiddencloud
After I found the chunk of silver last week a couple of my friends have warned me that there could be various poisons and gasses around silver that is 200 to 300 years old.
Is this something to b e concerned about and if so how would one protect oneself from this.
I would not normally be concerned, what are the chances of me finding more right. However, as I mentioned in my first post none of my readings were deeper than 4 inches, not one.
So I reread the manual and realized I had my quick draw 2 on the lowest sensitivity level as wall as the all metal setting. I want out two nights ago with the sensitivity level at max and the auto notch engaged and started getting a lot of 50 cent hits and 1 dollar hits every square foot at 6in to 8in deep.( in my 6 square foot test area there was at least 10 hits in the 25 cent to one dollar coin range) The piece of ingot I found registers as 10 cent to my machine and was only 3 in deep, I am assuming that means that there is a lot more there and larger pieces. Is this a correct assumption? and if so do I need to take protective measures in handling the finds. What about a large find like a catch, would it be dangerous to handle a large amount of silver in contraband ingot size? The official Spanish ingots were made into 80 pound molds, 5 to 6 inches thick, mine was about one half inch thick. As it was ilegal to produce such ingots there could very well be a catch waiting to be found. Especially after two revaluations in two hundred years.
I found lots of small pieces of charcoal within a couple of inches of the piece of ingot I found which would imply that they were smelting the silver there. I am not really wanting to get cyanide poisoning as that was the major chemical used in refining silver here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would love to post a pic of the silver but the file is to big for the site.
Thanks,
Hiddencloud