Platinum or not Platinum

I used hydrogen peroxide (stabilized) 3% solution from a drug store. The lighter gray nodules grew a few bubbles and released them slowly one at a time. I saw the video on Youtube, try a video search there useing platinum test as key words. Some darker, heavy noddules that were slightly irredesent and a shiney black reacted like in the video and fizzed like crazy, as did a little peice I tested which I was pretty sure was titanium. If the nodules contained manganese I later found it could have been that after doing a search on other potential catalyst metals. Chromium is a catalyst as well and chromium is in the area. I save everything and once I get my homemade smelter working properly I plan to smelt them. This is my third go at getting a smelter that reaches the proper temp. Last one got hot enough useing coal but coal has too much sulpher. I have yet to get propane, even with air hot enough. I think my supposed fire clay I bought isn't the real deal and absorbes and radiates too much heat faster than it can build. Leaching with bromide and chlorine hasn't gone well either, online do it yourself instructions are either leaveing too much out or I'm just not getting things just right enough. Both furnaces and chemical leaching is appearing more and more to being a more exact science than I was led to believe. Oh well, I know what doesn't work and I'm getting closer and closer to success at least. Paying for an essay would probably be cheaper in the short term but the way things seem to go now, if the states around here find out your onto something they pass laws real quick to shut you down. I read in a few books how essayers used to give reports to the secret service what was being found by whom back in the 1930's, don't know if they still do. Gold probably isn't of too much interrest so long as its in small amounts, platinum, who knows.

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it looks like pyrite, scratch it to see if it turns into a white powder, platinum looks more like lead!

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  [hello]This sample really looks like pyrite, it could be, did you try scraping a small amount off the sample to see if it turns into a white powdery substance, but it still could be platinum there is platinum in the Columbia river coming out of B.C. Canada, usually it is found in smaller samples, keep us informed as to what this might be, I am very interested to see what it is thanks
Rick

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