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<p>[QUOTE="Desertau, post: 9821098, member: 86775"]What I do see in the first pictures are rocks I too picked up in the beginning looking, well hoping the thing I dug that wasn’t trash or sadly gold might just be a space rock. The surface is shiny like fusion crust, right? It’s magnetic, heavy and rusty… well something very commonly associated with gold in the presence of highly mineralized soil is and abundance of iron stone and until you have held a few real meteorites they do look pretty good. In fact I have several hunderd pounds of Iron stone it’s a very attractive rock that takes a beautiful silvery black high polish and is a semi precious gem stone I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>fusion crust is fairly thick, fractures can be common from thermal shock the melting is only a surface feature that happens very quick from I think it’s called Ram Force pressure heat generated by friction generated by the resistance pressure in the atmosphere, or close to that anyway. I’ll add a picture of one with obvious fusion crust.</p><p><br /></p><p>one more huge red flag is any quartz that might be visible from clear crystals to stained or white bull quartz.</p><p><br /></p><p>another challenging question is how it got there when we have no such mineral in our location and the answer is people, like me will pick them up because… and then toss them away.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Desertau, post: 9821098, member: 86775"]What I do see in the first pictures are rocks I too picked up in the beginning looking, well hoping the thing I dug that wasn’t trash or sadly gold might just be a space rock. The surface is shiny like fusion crust, right? It’s magnetic, heavy and rusty… well something very commonly associated with gold in the presence of highly mineralized soil is and abundance of iron stone and until you have held a few real meteorites they do look pretty good. In fact I have several hunderd pounds of Iron stone it’s a very attractive rock that takes a beautiful silvery black high polish and is a semi precious gem stone I think. fusion crust is fairly thick, fractures can be common from thermal shock the melting is only a surface feature that happens very quick from I think it’s called Ram Force pressure heat generated by friction generated by the resistance pressure in the atmosphere, or close to that anyway. I’ll add a picture of one with obvious fusion crust. one more huge red flag is any quartz that might be visible from clear crystals to stained or white bull quartz. another challenging question is how it got there when we have no such mineral in our location and the answer is people, like me will pick them up because… and then toss them away.[/QUOTE]
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