Eyeball find next to my own driveway.....
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Crazy that I opted to go do garage sales with my wife this morning and found nothing to buy. But, when
I pulled into my driveway and got out I found the sun gleaming off this little ring sitting in the rocks.
Not worth anything but cool that it was in my own yard. Wife said that I need to get the detector out
and search the whole yard.......NOT.
bob
I pulled into my driveway and got out I found the sun gleaming off this little ring sitting in the rocks.
Not worth anything but cool that it was in my own yard. Wife said that I need to get the detector out
and search the whole yard.......NOT.
bob
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Edit: I'm guessing KP = karat plated?
If KP is present, that's a good thing!
Edited to add: I will gladly swing by and search your yard for other gold if you'd like!
Pasted from online:
Karat Plumb - What does it Mean?
If you've got a piece of gold jewellery you might find a stamp on it that gives the caratage of the piece followed by the letters KP. For example, 14KP, or even 585KP. The KP stands for "Karat Plumb". Obviously the Karat refers to the purity of the gold, while the plumb can be considered to mean 'exact', in the same way that a 'plumb' wall is exactly vertical or a 'plum' surface is exactly horizontal.
In gold bullion terms it means that the gold stamped with the KP is guaranteed to have a gold purity not less than indicated but could possibly be slightly more pure. So, for example, a bracelet stamped 14KP is guaranteed to contain 58.33% gold or more. Another bracelet stamped 585KP is guaranteed to contain 58.5% pure gold or more. The KP stamp is designed to eliminate the non standard caratage tolerances that some markets allow for. In the USA, for example, gold can be sold at up to 0.5 carat more than it's actual gold content. So, a ring marked 14K can contain just 13.5 carats of gold. Furthermore, even though the USA only allows jewellery to be sold as gold with a minimum of 10 carats purity, the 0.5 carat leeway still applies and 9.5 carat is the actual minimum. So, as a consumer you'd be better off purchasing a ring stamped 10KP than a ring stamped 10K.
nuggets and you don't have to worry about plating on nuggets.
That brings me to a new endeavor that I'm planning. On the way to the nugget patch down
in Arizona I had to drive by a dry lake bed that is about 5 miles long and at least a mile wide....
Going to see if I can drive on it and see if I can find a meteorite or two....should be fun as long
as I don't kick up a dust storm doing it!
bob
CZ= cubic zirconia?
So yeah, probably not a supremely valuable ring, but pretty, and a very cool find, for sure. I'll bet it gave you an adrenaline buzz when you saw it sitting there!