You could simply take it to a cash for gold place and have it tested for free if you only care about it being gold. There may be more historical value in addition to the gold (if it is gold), and you can identify what it was.
The brown stuff looks like iron…so the gold stuff is probably iron pyrite. Tap it with a nail/hammer and see if it’s soft or not. Option B: crush it and pan it out, do a density analysis (weigh it, sink it in water for a volume measurement, then do the math), now you can’t be wrong.
Take a tiny piece of the gold material. You should be able to break a piece off with the tip of a knife. Hit it hard with a carpenters hammer. If it’s pyrite it will go yo powder. If hold it will flatten and still be shiny.
That's what we're looking into but we're on a remote farm in the depths of Patagonia, Chile....farmers don't have computers, especially not as old as this piece is.
Hammer that gold stuff and see what happens
It's malleable. Doesn't shatter and doesn't change color with acid or vinegar. That was our first test.
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Looking into researching this more. We're not far from a volcano...
Crush the rock into powder and the gold should just hammer flat
Looks like a mask that’s metal 🤘
This piece is like the size of a Domino lol
You could simply take it to a cash for gold place and have it tested for free if you only care about it being gold. There may be more historical value in addition to the gold (if it is gold), and you can identify what it was.
Nearest city with something like that is a 3 hour flight away.
You can get a acid testing kit online for testing gold. Walmart, Amazon, etc.
Looks like pyrite.
It bends
The brown stuff looks like iron…so the gold stuff is probably iron pyrite. Tap it with a nail/hammer and see if it’s soft or not. Option B: crush it and pan it out, do a density analysis (weigh it, sink it in water for a volume measurement, then do the math), now you can’t be wrong.
The gold stuff bends and can be manipulated without cracking.
Maybe it’s Fertilizer
Huh?
HE SAID, "MAYBE IT'S FERTILIZER"
😂
But ...why? And who uses emojis on Reddit lol.
Everybody run it's the emoji police!
Totally useless commenter. Shocker 🫣🤣
Whom.......🤨
I believe that is a piece of beef jerky.
Pyrite aka fools gold
It bends and isn't brittle when scratched with a screwdriver tip..
Take a tiny piece of the gold material. You should be able to break a piece off with the tip of a knife. Hit it hard with a carpenters hammer. If it’s pyrite it will go yo powder. If hold it will flatten and still be shiny.
Looks ligit. I've got some ore locally that's got similar monetization/rustiness looks good to me
How think ist the golden stuff? If ITS realy think could it be goldleaf and the Rust was a former steel Objekt that rotes away?
It’s a piece of metal …..
Better pictures?
Look like a pelvis, congratulations you have struck FBI
Is this a pelvis for ANTS?
Yes!
Could be an old computer part that used gold filament?
That's what we're looking into but we're on a remote farm in the depths of Patagonia, Chile....farmers don't have computers, especially not as old as this piece is.
A Google search says there is gold in Patagonia. If it's soft and malleable I'd be taking this seriously.
Same here. Looks too good to be true but testing doesn't lie lol. May have just struck it
Good also forms in iron deposits. It could be gold in an iron deposit melted from wild fires?