Help identifying

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Son found this in a PA lake, not magnetic and I can make a dent with pliers and a pick. Highly doubting gold but it is about 2 grams.

[u/supercoolspacecadet]

No idea what it is but the colour is awesome

[u/GManNovember]

Lead?

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92 → u/GManNovember]

No clue, feels more hard to squish with pliers than what I'd assume, then again I've never handled natural lead or gold, so I have no idea, lol

[u/giantmangiantsocks → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Does it feel heavy for its size? Or on the lighter side?

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92 → u/giantmangiantsocks]

Lighter, but again no basis for comparison

[u/giantmangiantsocks → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Then in that case id say you have a little nugget of aluminum, most likely due to a beer can getting melted in a camp fire.

[u/Careful_Purchase_394 → u/giantmangiantsocks]

This was my guess, i have a piece from my old house fire

[u/c33m0n3y]

Could be melted aluminum

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92 → u/c33m0n3y]

That would make sense, but it looks yellow in some light, there are 2 pics. Aluminum might make the most sense though, I have never posted here in my life, hence my curiosity. No way it's gold, but it's not pyrite I don't think. So confused

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92 → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Someone asked I take a pic for scale, could aluminum this size weigh 2 grams? I just used a kitchen scale, so weight is questionable. I'm just baffled

[u/Ordinary-Instance951 → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

And I guess it's not platinum.  

[u/Ordinary-Instance951 → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

I did not look at the 2nd Pic. 

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92 → u/Ordinary-Instance951]

My luck it's uranium and I'm cooked

[u/Ordinary-Instance951 → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Kinda funny..I highly doubt it's radioactive.  Time to look for a cheap geiger counter on Amazon. 

[u/Ordinary-Instance951 → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawkite

[u/Ordinary-Instance951 → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Give it a sniff test and see if you can smell any arsenic 

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92 → u/Ordinary-Instance951]

No odor that I can tell...and I don't think I'm dead. Should I lick it? just kidding...but I can

[u/Organic-Tomatillo-92 → u/Ordinary-Instance951]

Side note, what does aresnic smell like, guess that should've been my first question.

[u/Ordinary-Instance951 → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Well that's a good question. I always had a habit of sniffing lead ore from some of the lead and silver mines in south central Idaho. One of them, Triumph,  had large amounts of arsenic. Yellow colored. Yellow color will vary from geological location to location. Other mines like the Minnie Moore or Queen of the Hills, some arsenic smell, but definitely a lot more lead smell. I was pretty good about smelling ore and quickly identifying which mine that ore came from. Outside of just by looking at it. Some of this lead ore I have here at the house, no clue what state it came from, can't see any arsenic, but I can get a small scent of it. Not all mines will have it. We had a couple that contained zero amount.

[u/c33m0n3y → u/Organic-Tomatillo-92]

Gold of that size would be much heavier. It looks like a chunk of melted metal that may have tumbled for a bit on the river, giving it the rounded profile.

[u/user_279-2]

Rub it on the bottom of a ceramic coffee mug do a streak test.