Thank u chris for all the time and experience you share with us you are a great person. Your generosity goes unoticed bless you brotha

I enjoyed this episode of have you found platinum, etc. Safe Shemitah Chris. I have your book "Fists Full of Gold" and value it as a rich source of information to refer to. Thank you for your continued video series. Looking forward to your next one!

Thanks Chris.It was so nice meeting you at the Gold Show and thanks for taking a picture with me.We appreciate all your information.

I missed this one for some reason , oh well saw it just now. Another good one chris. One this ice noticed with all your videos is you give us all the tools to do our own work. And when we do our own we learn so much more. Ty sir

Great stuff... Thanks for the facts about identifying platinum ore.

Thank you Chris! This was a great informative video. We have some platinum in the Snowy Range here in Southeast Wyoming.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Appreciate it.

Thank you for the time you take making your content, and I've learned a lot from watching your videos,

It’s really exciting finding the lumps of alum - I’ve found several in a local river. They shine up like silver through the water. Thank you for the video 🤩

It's amazing that both platinum and palladium are both listed as rarer than gold, but an ounce of gold is nearly three times the amount of platinum; and i believe palladium is still more expensive than gold. Makes you wonder. Now rhodium is rarer than all and its price does reflex it. Although i believe rhodium is a lot like diamonds on their pump and dump schemes. Great information Chris. Another good test is to put a torch to it. Platinum will continue to glow long after you turn off the fire.

excellent video. excellent work, very engaging

Thanks for all the information ⛏️

Great video Chris.

My nuggets were found downstream from the Stillwater Mine. 45 minutes drive from the mine. Wow, thank you for this. I have 2 nuggets that I found on a bench off of the Yellowstone River. They look a lot like the picture that you showed. They are certainly heavier than aluminum. I put them off to the side and have not even much looked at them over the past several years. The first sentence about Stillwater occurred from seeing your picture of Platinum. My projecting/geology knowledge is more about that yellow. Thanks again.

Hi Chris, I guess, most people find a very small piece of silver looking stuff and try to determine it. Mostly it's a part of the shovel you're working with… But if it's not reacting to nitric acid and too small for a density test, you'll never know for sure. I'm prospecting for gold in Germany were platinum is very rare. I found a tiny, flat piece (about 0.4 mm) looking like platinum and doesn't react to nitric acid. If it would be easy, it would be easy. ;-) Best regards from Germany!

another Home Run video Thanks me and Gary have been talking about platinum

You are an excellent teacher sir and I have your book.

Chris, just found your KZfaq videos and love the info. I never thought about platinum nuggets before. We live in Riverside CA and have Several gold and mineral mines around, we like exploring tailing piles looking for minerals. Last summer our local reservoir Was doing repairs and drained the water Exposing about 50 feet of The Lake bottom. When walking my dogs along the new shoreline I was finding 5 and 6 pounds of led fishing weights In pockets of hardened clay where the sad had been washed away. When I got home I noticed that 1 of them Had a metallic blue-green Color and is about 3/8x5/16 (2 grams) and ferrous. When looking at it with a loop the outside looks like It's a mineral With boxy edges. But the middle has a smooth gold like tone to it. I've been tempted to acid test it or smash it flat and see what happens, what would you do. Looking forward to reading your book. The kids and I love to treasure hunt. Thanks

I hope to watch this video again in the future when I have this problem.

Thanks for the vid! 👍🏻

Hi sir , you clear much more misconception thank sir

Years ago when I had metal detector I would fid heavy globs of something on lake Erie especially in a couple locations. I always thought they were shrapnel from the war on the lakes. I still have a small box full of the pieces. Some probably are aluminum and some are real heavy and dense. I always thought possible silver but looked more like steal.

Thanks for identifying facts

Hey Chris, new subscriber and I love the content. Have been learning quite a bit. I do have one question though especially for places where there was a lot of mining in the past. How likely are you to run into gold with mercury attached to it from the old timers mining operations? Especially when prospecting streams? Is it a pretty valid concern in your experience?Any tips on safety?

So will acid from a precious metal acid tests like the kits that come with the. 14 18 22 k gold silver and platinum acids work

Turns out my placer gold claim in AZ is high in pgm I only know gold processing trying to figure out how to process this ore .

Thank you very much👍😀

Thank you,I watch your videos,your awesome

I was placer mining on my old claim on the Applegate in southern Oregon and what we had was a bench deposit from the old riverbed. So my kid would dig up the ground to bedrock and fill buckets and bring them down to me and I'd run the bucket through the sluice. Ain't teenagers great! Anyway, I was getting a lot of lead from folks shooting across the river and I just put that in an old Gatorade bottle to melt and recast. I found a lot of small shiny flakes and fly poop that always road with the gold, not much but it was there. My father is a geologist (he's the one who gave me the fever) and I gave him the contents of that vial (about an ounce) when we were shutting down operations and he did the testing and it was platinum. He was able to do some expensive repairs on his truck with a bit left over. The reason I kept the stuff was I remembered an old story about the 49rs finding a white metal in their sluice boxes and throwing it away because they didn't know what it was. I don't know if that was true, but it made me be cautious. BTW, I know what gold covered with mercury looks like. That wasn't it. Though I did find it there, not as much as I thought I would.

Just love your videos

My new favourite nuggets are bismuth, know a great spot with loads of placer nugs😁

Does anyone know what that beautiful light metallic green mineral is, Coming from boss mine in Clarks County platinum ore examples pictures around 12:10 of the video? I have came across running along ,some deep inside cracks in small amounts on what a believe is just white ,clear and smoke quartz. Any clue? When I try to google it I can never find it! This is the first time I seen or really noticed it in a video.

I love your videos. It’s too bad that the Niton XRF technology isn’t cheaper for the hobby prospector.

Good show Sir. What of taste or lack thereof?

was out swinging my gold monster ,left early to get to the monthly meeting. ,they were talking about the claim me and a buddy were on ,and of course we find out we we're in the wrong area. of that claim. 😀. was nice and cool. though. was a great day ,been so hot in california. was good to get a chance to try to find gold. have a good day.

First time watching , couldn't quite understand all the info you were talking about . Some helped like you say can't believe everything on the internet..have some stuff I still Don't know if it's platinum maybe you can educate me some more

Hi Chris Ralph, thank you for your information in this video. I found it very informative. I was wondering if you can give me a bit of advice. My family recently found PGM ore in some land in Mexico, and have since been mining it. Like you stated, the ore contains higher concentrations of Rhodium and Irridium but has a good amount of Platinum. Issue is now that it is mined, what next? Thank you in advance.

All of the Platinum metals are valuable and useful. They are the heavier Iron group elements. One of the best sources of platinum is the Ural Mountains of Russia. Thee mountains have a unique feature. There is a prairie of both sides. All other mountains are only associated with a prairie on one side or no prairies. There are often some small amounts of platinum in copper ores. Platinum metal have and interesting chemistry. They tend to have a greater valence than the iron group which is usually 2 or 3 and do not.for aqua icons in water. They and gold are most often chloro complexes.

Hi good day sir Ralph....how to distinguish a real rhodium powder?I found it in grey color in crystaline silvery white fine texture....it is 1.3 kilos of pure powder ...sir pls help me to determine this thing....and I found it by means of treasure hunting here in phillipines.thank u sir

Hello Professor, how can I talk to you about rhodium extraction? Thank you for your guidance

Love your videos I have found some really amazing things Chris if you would like to see is there somewhere I can reach you to send you pictures I think you will be pretty amazed

Are you aware if anyone has processed the platinum in the serpentine mixed rock in the Bear River Campground near Colfax, Calif. with any commercial success?

Can you pan for Platinum the same way as for gold? I'm close to a platinum area in southern spain, near Marbella and would like to give it a try. Unfortunately, detectors are prohibited. And is your book also available as an e-book? That would be easier for your non US audience to get a hold of. Thank you.

I found somthing that’s non magnetic in bear creek past red rocks in colorado in a river bank looks like chromite is all over it with some type of amphibole may be mixed with serpentine

I had an assey done on some pyrite found in Northern Nevada. It came out as 3 oz gold 19 oz of silver and trace amounts of palladium l. Is that common?

I bought a Silver Floating Heart. Turns out it said 950 not 925 It was Tiffany/Platinum Gave it away as a gift. "Need to understand Hallmarks" Gold is Gold. In The back country or in the city.

Or biologineer some bugs that would start glowing when in contact with the metal???

Probably a tire fire artifact, aluminum rims are pretty common and tires burn pretty darn hot.

Nice video sir

there is placer platinum in B.C Canada . up around some rivers near kolowna are you familiar with that area.? have heard Bill Barlee.he wrote afew books and had serios called gold trails and ghost towns for about 10 years you can on see it youtub. very im formative

I love and respect you guy, BUT...... You take beating around the bush to a whole new level. (😝)! Still, thank you for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and experience!!! (Invaluable)👍!!!!......🤠🎧⛏️⚒️

lookout funny bone! that's ore, oar is it? ha.ha....it would really be cool 2 find precious metals in refined nugget states!! good luck!

Other metals may make hydrogen peroxide bubble but not like how platinum makes it bubble. Metals like silver, aluminum, etc. are slower catalysts unlike platinum group metals. It takes 30 seconds to a one minute for former metals to start bubbling but PGMs are instantaneous.

It’s easy to mine platinum just use the saws all go out at night it’s kinda like sniping! Are you missing your catalytic converter?

What materials looks like stainless steel filings, mixed with flour gold and black sand? Any guesses?

At 13:52 what is the green mineral in this sample? Would you be willing to receive samples by mail and identify what the minerals are in an ore sample?

I have a question I inherited some platinum ore where would I have it checked into maybe sell it I've looked online and haven't really got any good information

I have found a platinum or palladium metamorphic rock. Extremely heavy and I cannot cut it

is Cobalt a mineral? was it the first natural magnet? and what would that mineral look like found in nature?

Good morning Chris

I found some native rhodium nuggets, native platinum nuggets, palladium ore and some rough diamonds, one still in the yellow ground kimberlite matrix, in a glacier till on the Ohio river, on the east side of Cincinnati, when I was fishing one day. Most of the nuggets are over 50 grams, my digital scale only goes to 50 grams, I need a new one. Do you know where I can get an assay done or what I can do to verify what I’ve found? I’ve researched and tested this stuff myself and I can’t figure out what else this stuff could possibly be. Any information would be great. Thank you.

Where could I find near Southern Indiana and northern Kentucky a small particles of where is particles of rare Earth elements????

Good video

Would I be able to use the Nitric Acid test on Ore that I suspect to be platinum ore?

I have a nugget that looks exactly like your platinum nuggets it’s super heavy. I have held onto it for 20 years I found it out on a desert road. I’m from Oregon it was in the desert. Nobody knows what it is. What should I do to know for sure?

I have shiny, metal looking "flakes" in black sands after panning all the gold out. Not much gold, but tonnes of non magnetic black sand. One day I will learn to smelt...

I have a silver in colour bar of metal, density of Mass 350g/Volume .35g = 10 grams. Not magnetic, bubbles in H2O2. What is it do you think?

Hello sir .is there any gem detector machine in the market

I got some native platinum I need to get around to acid testing.

I have silvery rock with holes in it would really like to no if it's real or not

As someone that lives on an old volcanic gold field with lots of unusual geology l find lots of odd and interesting stuff(both natural and man made). Bits of melted aluminium are easy to identify by weight, but the random melted blobs of lead sometimes make me wonder. A melted bullet is never a surprise, but random half pound chunks of melted lead in random spots on the side of a mountain seem out of place and odd. Normally l collect them just in case, clean them up and hit them with a blowtorch. Lead melts, platinum won't without much higher temperatures. I hate having to state the obvious, but clearly something that should only be done outdoors, breathing in lead fumes is a big no no.

Couldn't we make a spray that would make would make your platinum or gold luminous bored luminous with a special light???

Im Positive I have found a Platinum Nugget but I have not sent it for a XRF or to a refiner. But I have ran a Bunch of test and it is dense. I even used a app and it said Platinum Multiple times. I wish I knew someone with a XRF or similar Machine.

Can you find platinum in black sand? I’m getting some really heavy silvery crystalline concentrate

What is Pt 195.08? I found 6 bar of it? Does it have value?

Unfortunately English has no simple word for "undense". Now for most folks that is no loss but for those of us who deal with the concept of density a lot it's a bit inconvenient. I turns out though that English once had a good word for undense. That word is subtile which is related to our more common word subtil. It was probably pronounced sub-teel but has largely passed from common use. From Etymology Online; subtile (adj.) c. 1300, sotil; modern form from late 14c., "clever, dexterous, crafty; not dense, thin, rarefied," from Old French subtil (14c.), a learned Latinized reformation of earlier sotil (12c.), source of subtle (q.v.). Still used in some Bible translations in Genesis iii.1, and it survived after 17c. as a parallel formation to subtle in some material senses ("fine, delicate, thin"). Related: Subtilly.

We have a three quarter pound nugget that is very heavy for the size that the nugget is. Recycle platinum used a XRF gun on this nugget. And yes this nugget had no platinum in it at all . This pgm nugget though had other pgm’s that are worth more than platinum. It had other base metals in it… but it had these precious metals in it and it showed the percentage. It had ruthenium 21 percent.. rhodium 19 percent ,.. palladium 5 percent, gold. 5 percent and silver 4 percent. You see it didn’t have to have any platinum in it to be called a pgm nugget. Obviously if. Nugget has several other pgm metal in it, but no platinum , you’re going to call it a pgm nugget, and these nuggets exist in Humboldt, Trinity, and Shasta counties… the “ EMERAL TRIANGLE “. Even apps willl identify pgm nuggets with no platinum in them “ platinum “ nuggets, just because they are platinum group metals, and look almost identical. I mean a ruthenium rhodium nugget will look almost identical. groves shape etc as a straight platinum nugget. The color is a little different in terms of all 6 platinum group metals. But no doubt these pgm nuggets with several pgm”s in them like iridium, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, but NO platinum in them do exist. The funny thing is that for the most part their are 6 platinum group metals and 3 out of the six are super dense and the other 3 are only a 12 density like led, but the lighter pgm”s are worth more. So the problem is even though we have this ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, gold and silver nugget that is worth a lot, people are going to say we have nothing because they usually don’t have the tests nir do they want to test anything but your more normal commercial element such as platinum! They love to say,” if this was platinum it would be a lot heavier. But even I know when you have a native platinum nugget , your base metals and other pgm”s are going to lower it from 21 density, which is only in jewelry, because jewelry is pretty much pure platinum, to like14 density. The base metals and the other pgm”s lower the density down, that’s why your nugget is not as heavy as it should be ,.. maybe not heavier but certainly worth more in this situation. Also like I said you never find platinum pure in nature! So you see the problem we have Chris we have these nuggets that have several of the pgm”s in them, maybe even all the pgm”s in them including platinum,it’s not going to test right You could have a nugget that has 40 percent platinum, and the other 5 pgm”s in it with all different percentages in it, but people around here without the right equipment and without the right education on platinum just blow your very expensive pgm nugget off and tell you that you have nothing when you really do. Yes and that is where an assay comes in handy, but we have been looking for a place who will do a fire assay the right way, and it’s almost impossible to find. They love to tell you what you don’t have, but they can never tell you what you do have. They check it with a XRF gun. But they don’t want to really get in there like with a fire assay, do to the fact they don’t know what they are doing and or because we don’t have all of this money to get them going or to get them to really get in there and do a real fire assay test in it. So here we are stuck with this 150 pound platinum group metal metallic fortune, but we can’t get the right refinery to do the job. Don’t these people realize how beneficial this would be for them and us if they did it right? What should we do Chris? How do we get these people to see what a good thing we really have?

I have a blob just like that I found in my old neighbors back yard

Sir Good afternoon ;May you help me sir to receive the knowledge of gem stone;

I'm in West Australia and I think I have found a Nugget and triangle shape of platinum who knows where I could take it to get it tested it is extremely heavy and magnetic any answers would be appreciated

Will silver desolve in a diluted nitric acid solution?

what is the value of that one you are holding

I found something I don't actually know what is. It's a black metallic substance, small nuggets, heavy, but it doesn't bubble under hydrogen peroxide. Not sure what I've found. Oh, and it's not magnetic either

Why is platinum worth approximately only 2/3rds the price of Gold especially because it's so much more rare? Is it because of the requirement in industry which appears to be less in use??? Cheers

Because I study genetics and am building my own genetics lab at home

I am from Philippines interested about the platinum sir tell me how to test

I digg it

I have also one in the same shape as yours

last time i was out (holcomb valley ca) on a claim found a link to a belt fed machine gun. serious. who the hell was shooting automatic weapons in the san bernadino national forest. odd as hell. (finds of the month) at the monthly meeting have a good day.

i have one too❤

Can you break a platinum ore with hammer?

We're do you get ride of platnuim nuggets

How can i communicate you sir.. im from Philippines

I'm wondering if I found gold can you help

I found a lump of coal or so I thought until I noticed it was full of silver streaks, pyrite cubes and the black parts were crystals. Flooding over the buried ruins an old welsh colliery meant that bulldozers came in to clear the trees for some reason, but I found that, dropped it on my laptop and now a little alarm is telling me that the fan isn't working........ah :) still I love my weird black silver and gold rock

You must not have been on the west coast they've got wire platinum its short and looks like pencil lead that's broken off. I see plenty in various locations but not strong. Trinity River area and west of the river has jade everywhere there's a exelent rare earth place with alot of gold and platinum. I used to rub the green jade off to expose the nugget it happened that I found a nugget that appeared like the walking lady liberty I pulled it up and it was platinum it was the very best piece of jade I worked upon my personal favorite. I literally gave it away even knowing what it was and had offers from alot of jewlers. I gave it away for 6.00 to a engineer that used to work with my dad in Los Angeles . I wanted him to have a high regaurd for me and he didn't have a clue what I sold him .The piece was to fit a dollar buckle and the nugget covered the face it looked like the lady liberty. I had all kinds of offers from people but in the end I did what felt right to me. Jades suppose to be given away it brings luck . That's what I did wait till he figures out what I gave him it was so cool he thought it was fake.

Io ho trovato quattro frammenti di cui dentro c'è. Oro visti con microscopio una e molto pesante al microscopio si vedono piccoli cristalli

Chris found Jimmy Hoffa!!! 😂

I think i found a deposit of platinum in my land. At first thought it was gold

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