So a friend and I hit an old park on Friday, an old picnic grove which has been producing pretty well. We have yet to visit without each of us leaving with silver and IH's. This past Friday was no exception.
It was late in the day when I got my first piece of silver a nice ring with what I think is turquoise in it? Can anyone confirm? It doesn't appear to have a silver mark on the inside, but I'm 100% sure this is silver. Could it be Native American? Anyone have a guess to it's age.
A short while later I thought I was about to dig up an extremely well preserved cannon ball.....however there was not one bit of rust on it, and well, it was only 1/3 of a cannon ball. After cleaning it up a bit, I am wondering if it may be a silver ingot. It is not magnetic, and scraping the edge and the top of it on a piece of paper leaves no marks, meaning I don't think it is lead. I am scraping very hard with no transfer. It is very heavy, I have a normal scale at home, and plopping in on the scale it consistantly weighs 2 pounds. It is about 1 inch thick, and slightly oval in shape. Diameter across one way is 4", and 3.75" another way.
I can't remember what forum I saw it in, but I remember a post with a similar shaped object that turned out to be silver. I believe after they melt down the silver ore, but prior to refining into pure silver they pour it into this shape for transportation to a refinery. At least that's the gist of how I remember it.
Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions? Have some input or ideas on how to truly test it?
Thanks for the feedback and thanks for looking,
Jai
It was late in the day when I got my first piece of silver a nice ring with what I think is turquoise in it? Can anyone confirm? It doesn't appear to have a silver mark on the inside, but I'm 100% sure this is silver. Could it be Native American? Anyone have a guess to it's age.
A short while later I thought I was about to dig up an extremely well preserved cannon ball.....however there was not one bit of rust on it, and well, it was only 1/3 of a cannon ball. After cleaning it up a bit, I am wondering if it may be a silver ingot. It is not magnetic, and scraping the edge and the top of it on a piece of paper leaves no marks, meaning I don't think it is lead. I am scraping very hard with no transfer. It is very heavy, I have a normal scale at home, and plopping in on the scale it consistantly weighs 2 pounds. It is about 1 inch thick, and slightly oval in shape. Diameter across one way is 4", and 3.75" another way.
I can't remember what forum I saw it in, but I remember a post with a similar shaped object that turned out to be silver. I believe after they melt down the silver ore, but prior to refining into pure silver they pour it into this shape for transportation to a refinery. At least that's the gist of how I remember it.
Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions? Have some input or ideas on how to truly test it?
Thanks for the feedback and thanks for looking,
Jai
