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Title: ak native silver
Post by: Glenn on March 10, 2016, 07:47:30 AM: I love my new native silver, was never expecting to find this.

(https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12804680_488895337977104_657583943043084004_n.jpg?oh=e966dbac75457ee5bb166484618eeba6&oe=575A3966)
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: lithicbeads on March 10, 2016, 08:24:57 AM: Very nice. I found arborescent silver once in a decomposed pegmatite and the image of that siver is as strong and vivid in my mind as the day I found it.What were your circumstances?
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: hummingbirdstones on March 10, 2016, 04:14:50 PM: Whoa! Very cool. How did you come across that?
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: Glenn on March 11, 2016, 07:05:44 AM: riverbed with a metal detector when just fooling around not expecting to find much besides man made things.
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: Glenn on April 08, 2016, 08:42:07 PM: got it chemically tested... it tested negative for silver...

It tested positive for platinum!
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: lithicbeads on April 08, 2016, 09:24:03 PM: Nice surprise!!!
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: ToTheSummit on April 08, 2016, 10:44:35 PM: Nice! Isn't platinum up near $1000 an ounce these days?
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: hummingbirdstones on April 09, 2016, 07:33:18 AM: Holy crap! What an excellent surprise. Hope you know exactly where you found that so you can go back to look for more! :LOLOL:
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: Stonemon on April 09, 2016, 12:37:55 PM: Cha-ching!!
Bill
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: Glenn on April 10, 2016, 12:05:22 AM: Quote from: hummingbirdstones on April 09, 2016, 07:33:18 AM
Holy crap! What an excellent surprise. Hope you know exactly where you found that so you can go back to look for more! :LOLOL:

I know exactly where I found it but not the source (could have came from 8o miles away)
Title: Re: ak native silver
Post by: hummingbirdstones on April 10, 2016, 07:36:32 AM: Well at least you know where to start looking for the source. That probably would be a mission of mine if I had found it. :occasion14: