🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I found this like 8 years ago and never thought about it but I cant find any info on it.

[Person]

I recently found an unusual object while helping my dad with some gardening. It was inside a bag that looked like a Miracle-Gro soil we used for our backyard in Canada. The object has an alien-like appearance and seems partially man-made, but it has no magnetism. I’m extremely confused and curious to know more about it. Here are some details:

• Found in: Inside a look like Miracle-Gro soil bag.
• Location: Canada.
• Appearance: It has a dark, glossy texture with several rounded, bulbous protrusions. It looks like it could be man-made, possibly a sculpture or artifact.
• Magnetism: None detected, maybe a neodymium magnet is required.
• Size: Approximately 5 cm long and 3 cm wide.
• Weight: Fairly light for its size.

 

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[robertk]

I recently found an unusual object

I wouldn't call "8 years ago" recent. I don't think the object is anything useful or valuable. Kinda looks like a melted Buddha figurine, if Buddha was female.

 

[pepperj]

I recently found an unusual object while helping my dad with some gardening. It was inside a bag that looked like a Miracle-Gro soil we used for our backyard in Canada. The object has an alien-like appearance and seems partially man-made, but it has no magnetism. I’m extremely confused and curious to know more about it. Here are some details:

• Found in: Inside a look like Miracle-Gro soil bag.
• Location: Canada.
• Appearance: It has a dark, glossy texture with several rounded, bulbous protrusions. It looks like it could be man-made, possibly a sculpture or artifact.
• Magnetism: None detected, maybe a neodymium magnet is required.
• Size: Approximately 5 cm long and 3 cm wide.
• Weight: Fairly light for its size.

That item could be one of the above minerals.
In processing one of the minerals collected on a piece of equipment, broke off and ended up the bag.

Water soluble minerals in a concentration can look like this.

Put it in a container of water and see what happens.

 

[Older The Better]

Slag? A form of hematite?

 

[The Rebel]

Slag.

 

[pepperj]

Slag? A form of hematite?

Would hematite be in miracle grow?

 

[Older The Better]

Could have been used as a bag to clean stuff up? Pack rat in a burrow? Who knows

 

[Mud Hut]

Darth Vader as an embryo?

 

[Puff the Tragic Wagon]

I recently found an unusual object while helping my dad with some gardening. It was inside a bag that looked like a Miracle-Gro soil we used for our backyard in Canada. The object has an alien-like appearance and seems partially man-made, but it has no magnetism. I’m extremely confused and curious to know more about it. Here are some details:

• Found in: Inside a look like Miracle-Gro soil bag.
• Location: Canada.
• Appearance: It has a dark, glossy texture with several rounded, bulbous protrusions. It looks like it could be man-made, possibly a sculpture or artifact.
• Magnetism: None detected, maybe a neodymium magnet is required.
• Size: Approximately 5 cm long and 3 cm wide.
• Weight: Fairly light for its size.

A likely suspect would be Perlite.

I looked up what minerals were found in potting soil and found Perlite listed. You know that white substance in potting soil that looks like styrofoam? It’s expanded perlite. So, what’s perlite?

Perlite is an amorphous volcanic glass (SiO2) that has relatively high water content, typically formed by the hydration of obsidian. Perlite has the unusual characteristic of expanding and becoming porous when it is heated. It can expand to as much as twenty times its original volume. Expansion occurs when the glassy lava rock is heated to 1600 degrees F (871 degrees C) and the water molecules trapped in the rock turn into vapor causing the rock to expand. (This is the same principle as the water in popcorn that causes the kernel to pop when it is heated.)

Before it is expanded, perlite is commonly a dark gray to black, but can also be green, brown, blue or red. Expanded by exposure to rapid, controlled heating, it grows up to 20 times its original volume and takes on a foam-like cellular internal structure—essentially clusters of microscopic glass bubbles--transformed into the white mineral beads you find in potting soil.

Possibly a chunk that hadn’t expanded got mixed in with the potting soil and someone just left it in the bag when found?