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What is this little rock?
Rob2180  
Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 12:53:09 AM(UTC)
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Hi all last year while I was on holiday on the coromandel I was walking down the beach at the end of sailors grave road and I noticed a shiny little rock in the sand I have no idea what it is it has some sort of metal in it
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Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 1:07:51 AM(UTC)
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hahaha looks like gold...not sure.
Chris - Fisher Dealer http://www.puiakisupply.co.nz/
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Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 3:41:57 AM(UTC)
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the metal is a silvery grey colour and its not all that heavy
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Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 9:40:56 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Rob2180 Go to Quoted Post
the metal is a silvery grey colour and its not all that heavy


My son found a 'nugget' like that - on the outside it had a faint yellow tinge but it was in fact a silvery grey colour as you describe. He found it a mile down a stream from a construction site so we decided in the end that it might have been a nugget of aluminium which had been acted on by the forces of nature, tumbled and rolled to look like a nugget as it was carried year by year down the stream...he never did have it checked so no one knows as yet for certain...but at a rough guess maybe it is a piece of aluminium that has been pulverised to look like a gold nugget - the photograph show me what looks awfully like a gold nugget though...and I cant help but think 'Hes having us on'

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Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 10:08:55 AM(UTC)
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I have dug stuff like that. My guess is that when you throw aluminium cans in a fire you get little nuggety blobs some of which have a gold coloured coating.
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Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 11:29:04 AM(UTC)
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i would go for aluminium, people have fires on the beach and throw in their cans which melt if they are on the side of the fire. sand acts like a retort for the molten alloy.
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Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 11:53:49 AM(UTC)
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mel;ted aloy
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Posted : Friday, 16 September 2011 1:11:26 PM(UTC)
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thanks for all the replys
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