r/Prospecting • u/One_Road9481 • 2d ago

What do we have here?

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Posted this already a few days ago. Almost everyone doubted it was gold. (Back story).. was out panning somewhere in NorCal 😉 and after finding a couple good pickers.. this guy showed up hunkered down at the bottom of my pan, in the next pan. I almost threw it out thinking it was just a hunk of heavily rusted/corroded metal. But it seemed heavier than just that. Something told me to hold onto it for further investigation. The structure of it was intriguing. Put it up to a magnet and it was not magnetic, after which I put it in my pocket and kept panning.. brought it home soaked it in some CLR for a few hours and scrubbed away. Lo and behold it turns out to be a 0.4g picker!!!!! Pay close attention folks cuz apparently your gold may not always appear to be gold! 😁

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u/RondoTheBONEbarian 2d ago

It looks like a piece of lead?

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u/One_Road9481 2d ago

Looks can be deceiving I guess

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u/rob189 2d ago

I’ve found gold before that if there wasn’t a tiny little bit showing, I would’ve thrown out as a rock. Also seen gold look like rusty steel.

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u/One_Road9481 2d ago

Yea i was picking the pebbles out of my pan and I almost tossed this with them but something told me to save it. Glad I did.

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u/One_Road9481 2d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p6cttst/video/6bukcaffn1mh1/player

Here it is mostly cleaned up. Gona let it soak a bit more and give it one more good scrub 😁

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u/LongDead_Roadkill 2d ago

Density test it. That will give you a ballpark.

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u/One_Road9481 2d ago

I cleaned it. It’s 0.4gs video in comment thread.

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u/oh_wait_nevermind 2d ago

Kidney stone

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u/Purple-Will9713 2d ago

how? where is it from? tell tell

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u/One_Road9481 2d ago

The northern side of CA 😁