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Came across this yesterday in red mineralised soil. Plenty of quartz about and looked an ideal location. Sounded like gold, heavy enough in the hand to be gold but.... one piece was over a foot down. The magnet ignores it.
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Doesn't look like galena to me, but you need to give some properties. Hardness, streak, SG (unlikely to be similar to gold as gold SG is very high). A few more close-up photos like the last one would help...
 
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goldierocks said:
Doesn't look like galena to me, but you need to give some properties. Hardness, streak, SG (unlikely to be similar to gold as gold SG is very high). A few more close-up photos like the last one would help...
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Rockwall said:
Mackka said:
Looks like Silver, but I know nothing!
Mackka
There are silver mines in the general area.
But a bit unlikely to be silver. Looks like it could be 2 minerals, one possibly arsenopyrite. But impossible to tell things of this colour without other properties.
 
Gem in I said:
Lead as the metal is as rare as hen's teeth - never seen a sample in more than 50 years as a geo. And I don't see the cubic cleavage of galena.....worked on a lead mine for many years.
 
2yrs ago private property near Bathurst the tracks covered in it. close to copper mine and confirmed by geo in bris.Will post pics if you really miss it that much.
 
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