Precious Metals

Crystalline Gold – Liberty gold mine

Crystalline Gold

A rare form of crystallized gold that the Liberty area is known for. Crystalline gold is the rarest and most beautiful form of gold and Crystalline gold is especially valued by collectors because of its bright color and unique shapes.

Crystalline gold can form cubes, dendrite or dendritic patterns, octahedrons, thin leaf and sheet forms and many other surprising designs. The prices for different crystalline gold specimens can vary greatly. The major determinant of its value is its appearance, not the amount of actual gold in the piece. (more…)

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Ghost Town Silver

Extracting Ghost Town Silver

Going to the silver ghost town of Silver Reef, Utah to collect a sample of silver ore, and meet up with Cody of Cody’s Lab to learn how to extract it. 

Note that silver is also used in solder, an easily-melted alloy used to join electrical connections or copper pipes/plates. (more…)

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Turning jewelry into pure gold

Turning jewelry into pure gold

Turning gold jewelry small 24K pure gold bars.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Gold is resistant to most acids, though it does dissolve in aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), which forms a soluble tetrachloroaurate anion. Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to refine gold and to confirm the presence of gold in metallic substances, giving rise to the term acid test. Gold also dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which are used in mining and electroplating. Gold dissolves in mercury, forming amalgam alloys, and as the gold acts simply as a solute this is not a chemical reaction. (more…)

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Native Silver Discovery Globe Arizona

Native Silver Discovery Globe Arizona

The 417 Project lies 10 km due north of the copper mining town of Globe, Arizona, and 112 km east of Phoenix, Arizona. The “417” consists of 100 unpatented lode claims covering an area where an extraordinary amount of alluvial native silver was found by metal detectorists over the last two years.

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Spot Gold Price 2022

Spot Gold Price 2022

So, how will the spot price of gold do next year? Gold price in 2022? Will gold’s price go up? Will spot gold go down? Let’s see one gold investors educated guesses.

The creator of this video buys gold and other assets on a dollar cost average schedule and then buys more as price and interest allow. His primary focus is about buying gold coins. He does talk a little about cryptocurrency, mining stocks and other equities as well. (more…)

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How to Spot Fake Morgan Silver Dollars

Fake Morgan Silver Dollars

Fake silver dollars from China are showing up all over the Internet. 

The big problem, is the fact that many people who bought these coins in the past, do not realize that they are fake Morgan silver dollars and therefore honestly believe they are selling the real thing. What we’re showing here is just one way to estimate if the Morgan Silver Dollar you are purchasing is real or not. We also have another video on fake silver dollars that show another way to get an idea if you’re getting the real thing or not. (more…)

By Bob711, ago