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Originally Posted by Nihil Roma Maius
Hi Max, or you don't understand or you pretend all here are ignorant for to understand what I said. I speak about different alloys.
As you wrote about pure gold can't creates halo, I wrote that the gold is mixed by man along the history with other metals, and this associated metals with the gold can creates the halo. The rest is a false and malicious interpretation from your part.  |
Hi Nihil,
it's very clear to me, you wrote:
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Impurities? Who told about impurities? Gold 12 (50% gold + 50% other metal), 14 (60-40), 16 (67-33), 18 (75-25), 20 (84-16), 22 (92%-8%) has "impurities" introduced by man and his called alloys. These "impurities" can be copper, silver or bronze. So, can creates halo. But isn't necessary the halo, since the conductivity in the soil is very different. Halo is not only regarding alloys or non-alloys, impurities or non-impurities. Also deppend of the mineralization and the pH of the soil."
I've never seen any gold item, ancient or modern, show any halo.
That's the problem.
If you talk about ancient gold that could have, and actually HAS impurities, we talk about small fraction something like 0.1% of the mass of objects... or the like... cause otherwise you talk about of ancient alloys of gold and other things (e.g. silver) that is a completely different story.
Does ancient gold (with small fraction of impurities) show halo ?
I've never found this... so for me it doesn't.
I'd like to know if anyone here, apart LRL-folks, found this true using just metal detectors... if so, we can talk about this...
otherwise why bugging me with alloys... it's clear that if your object is e.g. 50% gold and 50% silver it actually isn't made of GOLD, you cannot consider it as a gold item !
It's an alloy: electrum ---> an example of what I say is electrum coming from Lydian coinage , that's about 55% gold and 45% silver and traces of copper and other heavy metals.
But it's not gold. Any archeo-student could tell you that... and make big laughs if you call it gold.
Other alloys of ancient gold show greater part of gold even 85%, but the presence of other metals is always 10-15% not 0.1 ! Still not gold.
Gold is gold, impurities are impurities, alloys are alloys.
All the rest are BS.
If you want find gold but your LRL detects alloys of it 50/50... it actually doesn't find GOLD ! You cannot call it GOLD.
It detects the other metal or at least... you wanna us belive that.
Kind regards,
Max