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I found a rock. It is about the size of a baseball and is rusty brown colored. It is heavier than your common rock. It appears to be metal but a magnet does not attract to it. My looking on the net came up with either a meteorite, not as likely, or hematite. I ground on one spot with a diamond wheel and the dust was brown. Any thoughts?
Gobbler
Could be hematite or something similar, however that would be a bit unusual (though not so much so as meteorite). Massive hematite might have a banded sort of texture or veining crossing it, depending on how it formed. I've not seen much of the genuine article for massive hematite, but then I live and worked in the wrong part of the world to have seen much if any.
What is most likely is a bit of slag from some kind of smelter. Stuff is everywhere due to being a handy and cheap ballast/fill material. Most of the heavy reddish-blackish-meteorite looking stuff people have showed me is slag. Easiest way to spot slag is to saw it or smash it with a hammer and look for bubbles or bits of crystalline or glassy material (silica flux).
I have something similar where I live. My research came up with Bog Iron. I have been wanting to try to reduce it to it's iron component, but have not tried as of yet. It should become magnetic after reduction (Iron).
If the dust is brown you probably have a piece of limonite or goethite.The picture looks like limonite.
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When I was a kid my dad worked at an iron mine. We had big boulders for landscaping. Kind of looks like that. I just remember they were heavy and hard to bust up.
I believe it's a combination Hematite/Meteoroid also known as a Hemaroid.
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I have a little piece of unpolished jasper....sort of kinda like that. I've been trying to hand polish it....no go...it's the hardest stuff I've run into.
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I have seen this stuff all over W Texas. Abnormally heavy, sounds like metal if you hit two pieces together. It is commonly known as a "sex stone" another word for a xxxking rock.
octagon wrote:I have seen this stuff all over W Texas. Abnormally heavy, sounds like metal if you hit two pieces together. It is commonly known as a "sex stone" another word for a xxxking rock.
Ah, yes...The OTHER BFR.....
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I have never seen or worked with bog iron, but I have worked with hematite and coprolite. I'm going with bog iron. I've never posted a picture but if I did it right then the one on the left is hematite and the one on the right is coprolite.
Gobblerforge wrote:I found a rock. It is about the size of a baseball and is rusty brown colored. It is heavier than your common rock. It appears to be metal but a magnet does not attract to it. My looking on the net came up with either a meteorite, not as likely, or hematite. I ground on one spot with a diamond wheel and the dust was brown. Any thoughts?
Gobbler
Maybe it is a metal ore that is not iron based, so the magnet would not be attracted to it?