Hello All
I went to a river today in a area know for gold, I done a few test pans and found nothing, just before giving up I used a Manual hand pump off the gravel of the river bed and I got loads of what looks like either Silver or Platinum
Important things to note is that I used a section hand pump and put the gravel into a garret pan, then transferred most of the material to a Banjo pan and in both instances this is what I got
No classifier was used
This material was at the top of the back pan where I would normally expect to see gold
Is it Platinum , silver, Palladium, any advice would be appreciated. Under a jewellers loop (40x Magnification) you can see the material is metallic and looks like shots of metal similar to when molten metal is poured into water
Not a trace of gold anywhere in this section of river.
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Looks pyritic to me
sort of looks like dirty mercury
I've made a video which is gives a better view of the material
Did I find Platinum