What is it?

[Fishermanjuice]

Hi Everyone,

I found what appears to be an old piece of melted down metal of some sort. It is very lustrous, light color with almost a light blue hue, not magnetic, gave a signal like a silver dollar on my detector, breakable with pliers, not highly ductile, crystalline structure, the outside appears to almost have a fibrous appearance. See my video on YouTube for pictures.

YouTube video of metal goober

What kind of metal is it? I feel it wouldn't be silver because the outside has the ugliness to it, but I might be wrong. This was found in the woods, near where a really old foundation once was, in a high trash area, near Pittsburgh PA.

Cheers,
Fishermanjuice

 

[Fishermanjuice]

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[Aarong81]

Looks like melted aluminum. Aluminum age hardens which appears to be what happened to yours. The older it is, especially when exposed to the environment, the more brittle it becomes. There are also many different alloys produced which produce different levels of hardness when new. Because yours has melted, it also experienced some random heat treatment, either annealing or hardening. Its not easy to heat treat aluminum, its much different than steel and and heat treating can have the opposite effect.

If there is enough melted together it will read as high as your meter will go, similar to a pop can but stronger signal. I dig a lot of melted aluminum and lead, both can give convincing signals.