"No luck today; I've been covering a lot of ground in the area for the past couple of weeks, looking for new nugget patches. If there was any kind of strewn field, I surely would have hit more meteorites. So, it looks like my stone is just a…"
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"Thanks, Michael. I will be looking for more tomorrow. A stone that size would put it at about the middle of a strewn field, if there is one."
"Heck yea! Great looking find, hope there's a ton more out there, plan on looking for more? Or think it was a lucky one-time find?"
New Nevada Cold Find
Got my third Nevada cold find today; story here:https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/15876-new-nevada-cold-find/See More
"That's called patina and is formed on rocks that sit on the surface for a long time; nothing in your pictures indicates a meteorite, but rather a terrestrial rock."
"Mundrabilla Iron Meteorite"
"There is quite a difference I see between the sample you posted and the images I have. The main difference is the glazed dark red crust I have on my sample. Thin but very visible. The crust on my sample is as a glazed surface of a kiln on pottery."
"Absolutely not a meteorite, and that so called x-ray image is a fake."
CLARK COUNTY (IRON TYPE IIIF) FOUND IN KENTUCKY IN 1937. (3.94 GM.ETCHED PART-SLICE)
New to my collection. A rare classification. Only 9 meteorites classified as IIIF in the meteoritical bulletin.Ex-NEMS
"I concur with Michael . it appears to be terrestrial iron ore. I have a similar specimen in my mineral collection. See my example here;"
"Hello, that appears to be a terrestrial iron ore, I do not see any meteorite traits - no fusion crust, no regmaglypts, no free metal, and much to angular exterior."
"Hello, I bought a rock collection at an estate sale. In the collection I found this heavy reddish brown rock. I used a magnet and found out it has a lot of iron in it. I am fairly sure this is a space rock. But do not have any idea where it was…"
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