What is this? Its metal in conglomerate, magnetic. Heavy. No visible signs of fabrication. What could it be? Meteor? Fossil? Hmm last photo is another interesting conglomerate

Jun 13, 2020 5:49 PM

CanadianOpalLover

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NotThatJoeYouKnow

old section of cast iron pipe?

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CanadianOpalLover

It maybe could be a slap product, or an old cannon mount piece? But no sharp edges no weld lines.

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CanadianOpalLover

Nothing but the shape looks like it could be manmade

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Exyr

Whatever that is ots man made. Looks like cast iron.

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CanadianOpalLover

I know it should be, but it's hard to find any of it that is a sure tell. It doesn't have the texture of cast iron. Or wrought.

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mikestoner38101

It looks like plasma table slag. Bits of steel and steel grit created by cutting steel with a plasma torch. It often forms chunks that loo

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CanadianOpalLover

Nice, thank you! I love to know how things work and how things form

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CanadianOpalLover

I'm going to poling a corner to see if there are any sites under 1000x

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CanadianOpalLover

Polishing haha

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RichardHardley

Could be a collar from a section of iron culvert

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CanadianOpalLover

That was my original thought but when I picked it up its denser then in should be. The metal doesn't react im about to test with hcl rather

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CanadianOpalLover

But I only have nitric from gold test

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