Did I find a Meteorite?

[Treg]

Hi,

I am new to Treasure Net and this is my first post. Recently, I found a rock with my metal detector and my belief is that the rock is actually a meteorite. My metal detector is pretty basic and cheap, no fancy bells or whistles. But it goes nuts when I pass it over this rock. It feels quite dense, so it makes sense that it has a lot of metallic material in it. However, it isn't really magnetic (it may be very slightly magnetic, but it is hard to tell). The outside of the rock is mostly a dark gray with spots of a black surface. That same black surface fully coats the inside of the rock (on the sides/walls of the holes). I attached pictures to hopefully give everyone a better idea what I am looking at.

I am not familiar with meteorites, but everything I look up points to it being a meteorite. Would it be worth getting it officially identified? How much do meteorites usually go for?

Thank you in advance for the help!!!

 

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[Red-Coat]

Welcome to Tnet.

No, that's not a meteorite. The nature of the vesicles rules it out. Note also that any meteorite containing significant native metal would always be strongly magnetic. No exceptions to that rule, although not all meteorites have a native metallic content.

I would say it's either a piece of man-made slag, or of earthly volcanic origin.

 

[Treg]

A volcanic rock also has crossed my mind, but the metal made me think more meteorite over volcanic. Either way, thank you for the clarification!

 

[Terry Soloman]

These are photos of the Griffith Wash "Oriented" meteorite, found by my friend Frank Capagnano,

Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Griffith Wash

and pieces of the "Gold Basin" meteorite I found. These are "Stoney" meteorites.

Meteoritical Bulletin: Entry for Gold Basin