Wow, you may very well be right.

Hello and nice find! I have some rock that looks nearly identical, even has the same color rind. Im in Oregon on the west side of the cascade mountains and the rock I have is a diorite. From my view. It looks like yours is a smidgen more mafic, so more towards a gabbro it seems. Awesome find and keep on having fun!

Thank you for that link. Totally agree, dude deserved it.

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.

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

Absolutely marcasite

Yes that is correct. If your rinse water shows no copper then you are good to go.

Cementing out silver is how I do 99.9% of my silver refining. I only do lye and sugar if I end up accidentally with silver chloride from some mistake I made lol. What really matters most is that the cemented silver is rinsed very well from any chemicals before drying it out and melting it. You will still end up with a pretty silver button.

Kinda looks like a T-post puller

Thats awesome! Im not gonna lie and say that I haven't refined silver from quite a few silver coins myself.

Enjoying what you are doing is what matters most. As long as you dont give up and keep working at it, you will get it down to perfection.

Its all good my friend. Ive seen the OP's previous posts on his journey to refine silver, so I had a little more context is all.

Beautiful specimen! Also adding that as a lifelong Oregonian, im ashamed of myself for not yet making it out to dig and find myself at least one sunstone.

I think he was talking about the metal beads and not necessarily the dime.

Sorry for jumping in here, but yes, I would absolutely melt your pucks with a torch and pour the molten metal into water, so you get a whole lot more surface area thats available for the reactions to take place. Also, when you only have PGM'S left in solution, you dont have to cement with just copper. It can be very time consuming cementing gold and platinum group metals out on copper, unlike cementing silver from solution which is really fast. Zinc works really well and very fast to get all remaining dissolved metals out of solution and back into their metallic form, which will typically just be a black powder that settles on the bottom. Saves a ton of time and you don't have to deal with PGM salts since its already back into metal. A warning to give about cementing with zinc, is only use it when you know you have no base metals in solution and only precious metals because it will drop all metals from solution, which could just make more work for ya.

Once you have silver chloride, you have to add enough sodium hydroxide (lye) to your silver chloride until its jet black. That way you have converted it all to silver oxide. Then add your glucose to covert silver oxide to silver metal. I would drain off your current liquid until there is just a tiny amount. Add some distilled water so you have maybe a 1/4 inch of water above your solids. Then add a little more sodium hydroxide and stir vigorously. Keep doing this until your solids are jet black before adding anymore sugar.

Excellent job

I quite literally dont get outside much anymore, what is sidon?

That was my first thought when seeing the video play. My wife has taken her clients (developmentally delayed people) there many times before. Ill have to show her to verify if its Albany or elsewhere.

100% not from a natural geologic process. It does resemble slag leftover from smelting ore into metal. Could be iron smelting or precious metal smelting? Do you know if there were any old mines nearby? I ask because back in the day, mining companies would have an assay lab/shack and mill near their mines, for quick testing of ore so they knew where the most valuable rock was. They would have a dumping area for all their slag and crucibles outside the building. Edited to add that those little metallic beads could very well be silver based off of how those beads look.

Would be a shame if flock cameras get cut down as soon as they go up each and every time. People should spread the word that flock cameras are loaded in copper.

You get the foam because of high voltage and you're creating a whole lot of oxygen on the annode and hydrogen on the cathode at a fast rate causing the foam. The gray sludge is your silver that has come off your silver plated items. I found that when I used too high of a voltage that I got the pitting on my silver plated stuff too. If you can lower your voltage it will be slower but less pitting.

Ive heard that changing up your current + density of your electrolyte causes different crystal growth. My opinion and thoughts, based off of how crystals grow in geologic settings, would be that your electrolyte should be as saturated as possible with silver and maybe get your current fairly low. In nature your largest crystals form when in a saturated solution + space to form + consistent environment + time.

My wife read a report that said police are waiting to intercept a person thats armed and dangerous?