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Post by courtneyfarms on Apr 25, 2012 15:22:31 GMT -5
Hello im new to this site and what brought me here was my find. As you can see in the pics its baseball size, dark brown and rusty brown black and somewhat shiny all on one side and smooth almost melted together looking compared to the opposite side .... the opposite side is kindly pourous chunky looking black and when i scratched this with my pocket knife its extremely hard ..... Its very dense for its size weighing 1.285 pounds and has no actraction to a magnet at all..... The melted together looking front rolls around the edges a bit ..... any help would be awesome as it has me stumped .... was found in the middle of a 50 acre corn field that was just turned with no surrounding rocks even resembleing it ......? Anyone know what it might be Attachments:
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Post by gadfly on Apr 25, 2012 17:51:49 GMT -5
What part of Tennessee? Wouldn't mind talking to some other Tennessee rockhounds. I have something that looks almost exactly like that. But mine is mixed with glass slag,I got mine out of a creek here in middle Tennessee.
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Post by courtneyfarms on Apr 25, 2012 18:15:29 GMT -5
Thanks for reply Gadfly...... Im located in East Tn 10 miles N E of Knoxville ...... There are not any bodies of water or creeks near my find site ....... actually on side of a hill as i was walking up ..... like i had said it was recently plowed for corn bout 3 weeks ago.... no other rocks around ressembled this one as it stood out to me i actually was lookin for a goat that had got out..... first thing that came to my mind was meteorite...... after researching i found that like 97 percent are attracted to a magnet and finding a stone meteorite is rare unless the landing was witnessed ...... but after staring at it and studyin it im confused lol...... as meteorites enter the burn which leads me to think thats what melted the front and not the back and thats its also very dense and unearthly looking...... and the melting rolls around the sides like starts in the center of the rock and rolls each direction around sides..... but again whats the odds of finding one thats why im confused any help is greatly appriciated ......
Thanks CourtneyFarms
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Post by courtneyfarms on Apr 26, 2012 5:48:37 GMT -5
Here are some more pics to study. Attachments:
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Post by courtneyfarms on Apr 26, 2012 5:53:13 GMT -5
This is the back side .... seems to be unmelted compared to otherside... notice theres a few passages down inside rock but yet its very dense? Attachments:
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Post by courtneyfarms on Apr 26, 2012 15:05:03 GMT -5
Ok after researching further i found that if you hang a strong magnet from a string it will tell you if it has any magnetic properties at all .... even so slight you cant feel it with hands ..... after trying this my find has a small magnetic pull .... so i correct my forst post as i said it was none magnetic....
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Post by dan on Apr 27, 2012 11:18:19 GMT -5
The pics look a lot like what we used to call clinkers. Just waste chunks from iron mills. May not be the same but it sure looks like it. Someone could have carried it and then dropped it or you found it on an old road that looked now like a field.
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Post by courtneyfarms on Apr 27, 2012 11:28:05 GMT -5
Are these clinkers you talk about attract a magnet good or not so good? And would the look melted? And a filed a mirror in the rock and it very silver shiney but the dust was red....
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Post by arappaho on Apr 27, 2012 20:44:47 GMT -5
I agree, It looks like a Clinker.  Sounds like Hematite with the weight, red dust and shiny silver window. Contrary to popular belief, natural rough Hematite is not magnetic. |
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Post by rockshine on May 2, 2012 7:31:08 GMT -5
I agree with Joe, but I'm not sure what I'm agreeing with. East Tennessee hematite is often found weathered dark brown, with rounded edges that make you think they have been melted. The back side of the above photos show the classical cubic forms.
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