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sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 12/29/2010 05:25 am I have been looking at pictures some of the finds, and I guess that to make them presentable, they are cleaned. I have a detector, but I haven't used it in a long time. Australia, being a large country with a short history leaves detectorists with a greater emphasis on gold nugget finding. In fact, the leading magazine in Australia "Gold Gems and Treasure" has detecting associated mineral finding (mainly gold nuggets) jewelry and gemstones. Suits me, I am also a gem facetor! Nevertheless, any detectorist will keep anything of interest or value, that means (in Australia): a) gold nuggets b) metal artifacts c) coins Each of these needs to be cleaned after retrieval from the burial site. What do you guys do about the cleaning of each class of your finds? Report this Post to the Staff

Tim Stroud Pillar of the Community United States 2661 Posts	Posted 12/29/2010 09:23 am For coins, if they are clad I just wash them off, let them dry, and put them in a jar. Older more valuable coins get soaked in distilled water for a day or so, then rinsed, dried, and placed in a jar of fresh olive oil until the dirt and grime is loose enough to rinse off. Then they get about a 10 minute soak in a distilled water/Trisodium Phosphate mixture and another rinse in distilled water and a heated dry off in my oven set at 120f. All the jewelry that I have ever found was in sand on the beach or at parks so a quick rinse in the sink was all that was needed. I have found very few artifacts and the ones that I have found were in such bad shape that cleaned would have destroyed them. I just brushed them a little with a wire brush and gave them to a friend of mine who is more into artifacts than I am. Hope you get something useful from this. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 12/30/2010 12:44 am Some detectorists go after gold nuggets, and I have seen pictured on this Forum gold embedded in quartz. How do you buddies clean mineral samples? Report this Post to the Staff
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