Crazy rocks!!!!need serious help.

[Rob66]

Hope everyone is having a great Holiday weekend.

What the h......ll are these Rocks? I've heard of hot rocks....are these it?
My guess,the rocks are iron or lead ores.Heavy,blocked with iron Disc, and have a dark greyish-satin sheen to them if cleaned.

The last picture of me holding a rock is a diffrent rock can't discriminate,heavy and have gold flakes on it??hard to clean.Fools gold.?

hope you can help
RD

 

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[49er]

Do they break easy? Any weight to them? Where did you find them?

49er

 

[Rob66]

Do they break easy? Any weight to them? Where did you find them?

49er

No... won't break .This might get a lot of laughs but, i found them along a railroad track. :P
RD

 

[Peerless67]

top ones look like coal, have you tried scratching the gold colour on the one you are holding? pyrite is brittle gold is soft and will score

 

[Monty]

My first thought was coal too. It makes my detector go nuts. Monty

 

[lolype29]

he second (?) (shiny rock) looks like it might be graphite. The other (bottom rock) corundum??

 

[Rob66]

No...not coal.It Heavy like iron.The ones with gold flakes I'm cleaning or trying to.
Now... to mountain in search of real nuggets!!!
Happy Hunting!!!
RD

 

[Rob66]

More pictures with more sun.
RD

 

[Rob66]

top ones look like coal, have you tried scratching the gold colour on the one you are holding? pyrite is brittle gold is soft and will score

The one I'm holding,it's hard and heavy.I think there may...be traped gold in it?
RD I'm soaking them now.

 

[Peerless67]

top ones look like coal, have you tried scratching the gold colour on the one you are holding? pyrite is brittle gold is soft and will score

The one I'm holding,it's hard and heavy.I think there may...be traped gold in it?
RD I'm soaking them now.

well im betting the top ones are coal, I dont know what area you are in but you can get gold in black quartz. you can test it with a simple scratch test. here is a picture of gold in black quartz.

 

[CRUSADER]

Its Coke (coal like)

The old steam engines used them.

 

[bakergeol]

If you look closely you can seen numerous holes. Some of these have been heated through a furnace- slag -coke- unburnable stuff mixed in with coal. Perhaps from the old time coal burning railroad engines as Crusader suggests.


George

 

[CRUSADER]

If you look closely you can seen numerous holes. Some of these have been heated through a furnace- slag -coke- unburnable stuff mixed in with coal. Perhaps from the old time coal burning railroad engines as Crusader suggests.


George

Yeap, thats it. I find tons of the stuff. Just need to clear it. (Gives a kind of half signal)

 

[deepskyal]

Looks like Silicon, used in making steel.
Have to clean it out of a pit at Allegheny Ludlum Steel from time to time when their belt drive breaks down.
They make high silicon steel there.

Very heavy, shiny...I think coke is a good bit lighter in weight compared to silicon. Coke is light enough that it can be blown up to the top of a silo, about 70 feet high, through a 4 inch pipe. Silicon has to be fed from ground level by a front end loader.
Silicon makes steel very conductive.
Al

 

[CRUSADER]

Looks like Silicon, used in making steel.
Have to clean it out of a pit at Allegheny Ludlum Steel from time to time when their belt drive breaks down.
They make high silicon steel there.

Very heavy, shiny...I think coke is a good bit lighter in weight compared to silicon. Coke is light enough that it can be blown up to the top of a silo, about 70 feet high, through a 4 inch pipe. Silicon has to be fed from ground level by a front end loader.
Silicon makes steel very conductive.
Al

Could be right, looking at them again they don't seem very air filled.

 

[Gen. Breckinridge]

I was hunting near a railroad track yesterday and found similar rocks as well as some quartz (looking) rocks. They were ballast that they lay between the ties but interesting. They were mixed in with the usual gray ballast rocks.

 

[Rob66]

I was hunting near a railroad track yesterday and found similar rocks as well as some quartz (looking) rocks. They were ballast that they lay between the ties but interesting. They were mixed in with the usual gray ballast rocks.

Yep...that's where I got them.They are everywhere.I was hoping I'll run into a nugget that got mixed or transported and fell off
So, one question....If it is coal, would it be that heavy..like iron?
RD

 

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