Already know what, exactly? The way you're quoting me makes me think you already know there's osmium and that I lack confidence to poison myself with osmium and that many tests confirmed I lack the confidence as well as your lead assay.
I'm sorry, but I don't have any confidence in you or your story. I think people have patiently born with you because, as they say, you can't prove a negative and the absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence. But let's just focus on the absence of your evidence while considering it from my and others' perspectives:
You want to trade something that looks nothing like native platinum (to me it looks like a meatball that spent over long in a hot oven) that most any of us have ever seen;
You have not even a basic S.G. done (platinum is dense and the equipment simple and easy enough for an ancient Greek)
You have no assays done by reputable assay houses
You have no precise weights of what you want to trade
You give no location/district or supporting literature proving there's smoke where you claim there's fire
To continue your membership in the forum I ask that in the future, your posts regarding rocks, ore and such will be required to meet these basic guidelines:
- contain only facts established by literature, multiple convergent/agreeing assays unless bolded text as your own opinion. We hope this will encourage you to provide facts to bolster others' confidence in you.
- pictures of the results of any self assay, including the notes, techniques, temperatures, charge ratios, and all other data required for someone to replicate your findings
- proper use of quotes so other people can understand whether or calling out someone giving Os safety advice versus simply reacting to another person who sees your lack of compelling evidence (or any actual evidence) as problematic to your claims
- are not to sell/trade materials or offer them for sale/trade without first meeting the requirements above and providing a sample to your counter party of material representative of that which you intend to sell/trade
Believe me, I want you to have platinum and other PGMs and Au in your stuff. I really do. Nothing makes me happier than people really getting lucky.
Back in 2012 or '13 I was fire assaying for a guy I met-I-forget-how, maybe off here, maybe a referral from someone on here. Some how. He seemed like a maverick more than a quack but he thought he'd found gold and a lot of it. He had started a business there in Nevada and was statistically sampling the whole area and hired a geologist and made maps and grade at depth reports, etc. All I did were a couple crappy fire assays, checked for PGMs, processed some mined material and his concentrates, and talked to him a bunch late into the evenings. Well, as his luck would have it (he moved on to the big assay labs in Reno, per my suggestion as I don't do production assaying and he had a bunch of work I couldn't do that cheap)...he had
something. Several years later I heard the guy was rich. So it happens.