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If there are coal power plants around the area it could be waste from there once it was burnt.

When I was growing up I had seen items just like that from the steel plant near me and that was what it was from.

People would use it in their driveways instead of rock because the steel plant would let you take a truck load at a time for free.

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2 hours ago, phrunt said:

yes, it looks like slag

slagq_146_wilson.jpg

slag_IMAG0521.jpg

 

See this site

http://meteorites.wustl.edu/id/slag.htm

Is it heavy for it's size?

 

That 's yes. Any stone flying the cheraise atmosphere or surviving the blast furnace will have such a fast look. Without expertise, all this is not combing. Coins are easier, though there are forgeries. 18 century forged 17 and so on... It is good that the price of forgeries is often higher than the original.. With meteorites everything is wrong. Only indirect characteristics for the beginning and examination as a point. Thanks for the link. Good luck under the reel. With respect.

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This might help:

http://meteorite-identification.com/streak.html

Keep in mind many foundries use coal to melt their metals in such as the Capola Furnace:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola_furnace

This is what I believe is a non magnetic meteorite piece I found, it is very dense 3.72g for it's size. I think it might be just a fragment that was left. It rings in on my detectors in the gold/nickels range. Too small to send out for confirmation as they want a USA quarter size sample which is bigger than the piece!

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