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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Aha, a water-related feature--perhaps a fragment from an exploded steamship boiler.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Looks to me like a chunk of Criptonite .  |
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Valued Member
United States
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Looks like the space poop that Joe Dirt found. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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If you can't find another piece, maybe unobtainium
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Tony - I believe that's "kryptonite", as any man of your generation should know.  |
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If it is not magnetic then almost certainly not a meteorite.
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Tony - I believe that's "kryptonite", as any man of your generation should know. Dar gone-it , your appsolutely right .  |
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Looks like a chunk of nickel babbitt to me; used with bearings in old sawmills and stuff.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'm very interested to see what XRF results will show.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It does not look like silver to me.
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Valued Member
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This quite educational....I had look up Babbitt metals
variants: or less commonly babbit metal
Definition of babbitt metal
: either of two alloys used for lining bearings:
a: a tin-base alloy
especially : one containing 2 to 8 percent copper and 5 to 15 percent antimony
b: a lead-base alloy containing 1 to 10 percent tin and 10 to 15 percent antimony with or without some arsenic
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Pillar of the Community
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Well, unless you do an XRF you will never know.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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do you have a Geiger counter, I doubt it radio active but that if you want to be sure, does look like some sort of metal mostly likely a 8.5-8.95 g/cm3 Copper Nickel Alloy Properties (Theoretical). had a quick search and it seems that Monel (Copper Nickel) it probably the most likely, since it looks to be refined metal and not just ore, usually made to resist sea water where as tin 50% & lead 50% used in electronic Solder Alloy   Edited by ryurazu
07/26/2021 11:51 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Being a meteorite collector I can say 100% it's not a meteorite.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Looks like a chunk of Haematite to me.
The principal ore of silver is arcanthite, which doesn't look much like the ore sample pictured.
Pure arcanthite has a specific gravity of 7.3 but is normally found in association with other minerals.
Another ore that silver is found in, and commonly mined, is galena, which is a leas/zinc/silver combination. This ore has a cubic metallic appearance, so is does not appear that particular ore.
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07/27/2021 02:49 am
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