✅ SOLVED I found a weird rock in the water

[iGrabs]

Hello everyone, so few days ago in the river i found a weird looking stone, it kinda looks like a meteorite.I would really appreciate if you could help me by telling your opinion on what is this stone.

 

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[Icewing]

Have you tried a magnet?

 

[Old Pueblo]

Looks like slag from a mine.

 

[iGrabs]

Yes i've tried a magnet and nothin happened. I forgot to mention that the weight of this rock is way higher than i thought.

 

[Icewing]

Meteowrong.

 

[iGrabs]

Oh well i really thought i found somethin good

 

[Icewing]

If you scratch it, would describe it as metalic, or more like a stone, hard, soft etc?

 

[Icewing]

Oh well i really thought i found somethin good

We've all done it at some point, that's how we learn.

 

[iGrabs]

well, its deffinetly not hard as a stone its quite soft to be honest

 

[iGrabs]

but why the weight is bigger than a normal rocks would be?

 

[TommyB]

Could be Leaverite. (leave it right where you found it)

 

[iGrabs]

Aight i guess its nothin interesting, thx anyways. Closing the post

 

[Old Pueblo]

Oh well i really thought i found somethin good

Keep searching. Where there is old slag there is an old mine!

 

[Old Pueblo]

If its not slag, its definitely an unusual looking stone to me. Id keep it. And remember, slag is an artifact too! May not be much, but if there are old mines around it probably came from one of them. They used to just dup everything over the side of the hill back then, right into the rivers and so forth.

 

[Icewing]

Is it lead slag possibly?

 

[Old Pueblo]

Is it lead slag possibly?

I couldnt say. Maybe its a piece of tumbled asphalt, thats been rolling down river. All of the old mine slag I run into is as hard as stone.

 

[Icewing]

Apply heat, you'll know real quick if it's asphalt.

 

[DeniseT]

Slag?

 

[Old Pueblo]

Slag?

Slag is whats left over from the smelting of metal ore, or something like that. You see it a lot around old smelter sites at old mines.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Surely not slag. Slag is often glassy, porous (has "bubbles", holes) and the color varies greatly.
I'd say do a streak test; rubb against unglazed porcelain. What color do you get?

My thought is pyrite/marcasite, which will feel heavy for its size. It'll produce a blackish streak and can't be scratched with a knife.
Though the knife likely will scratch the oxidization, so be sure to check for a scratch into the material.