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Hi scarmyd291,
To me ...It looks like an Iron Meteorite.
Where did you find them.
Meteorites are...Very valuable!

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Robot said:
Hi scarmyd291,
To me ...It looks like an Iron Meteorite.
Where did you find them.
Meteorites are...Very valuable!

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Sadly, with this one Im not sure where I found it. I’ve had it in my rock collection for years. I think as a kid I thought it was pretty because of the green but it’s actually quite a hideous rock 😂 I would guess somewhere near Richmond, Va.
 

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TheCannonballGuy said:
To me, it looks like a version of Chalcedony or Agate (the light-colored stuff in photos #38 & 39), which is mostly hidden in the usual exterior matrix (in this case, the darker stuff).
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Okay, I do have some chalcedony in my collection. It has similarities to would say. Although, a meteor sounds much cooler 😂. I actually do have this odd chunk of metal in my collection as well. I’ve always deep down hoped it was gold but am too chicken to actually find out so it’s a shelf ornament. 😂
 

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scarmyd291 said:
Okay, I do have some chalcedony in my collection. It has similarities to would say. Although, a meteor sounds much cooler 😂. I actually do have this odd chunk of metal in my collection as well. I’ve always deep down hoped it was gold but am too chicken to actually find out so it’s a shelf ornament. 😂
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While I agree that a meteorite is much cooler, this certainly is not a meteorite. The appearance is all wrong, and you can see quartz (or similar) looking mineral on the outside which does not occur in meteorites.
 

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miric said:
What is it than?
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My best guess is a piece of basalt with some agatization going on. There are extinct(?) volcanoes in Virginia.

miric said:
Can you help me too? Meteorite or not? It is magnetized.
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Not meteorite.

When you say "magnetized", do you mean it's attracted to a magnet or it is a magnet (sometimes but not always the same thing).

Probably grey hematite or magnetite (I lean toward the latter).
 

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If you do truly mean 'magnetised', it won't be basalt. As per my reply on your other thread, magnetism is lost when materials are heated above their Curie point. That would be the case during the formation of a basaltic rock. A basalt can be magnetic, but not magnetised.

In any case, it doesn't look like a basalt and the only commonly found mineral which exhibits magnetism is magnetite (and rocks or mixed iron oxide mineral deposits containing significant proportions of magnetiite).
 

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There have been several Meteorite crashes near your location in Virginia.
Possibly like this octahedrite meteorite located in Norfolk Virgina.

distinguish meteorites from other rocks:

  • Density: Meteorites are usually quite heavy for their size, since they contain metallic iron and dense minerals.
  • Magnetic: Since most meteorites contain metallic iron, a magnet will often stick to them. For “stony” meteorites, a magnet might not stick, but if you hang the magnet by a string, it will be attracted.
  • Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.”
  • Fusion crust: stony meteorites typically have a thin crust on their surface where it melted as it passed through the atmosphere.
 

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Based off of geological studies I’ve been doing on my land, I believe Virginia has had many meteor impacts. The geology is extremely diverse… also SUPER iron rich. I think in Virginia, a lot of the people who have studied geology for a long time, are prone to assume what they see rather than observe what they are looking at. Time plays a huge role in geological study. Especially considering the few earthquakes Virginia has experienced over the past decade. Thing come out of the ground, expand outward from the core of the earth so new layers are revealed.
 

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Fugio said:
While I agree that a meteorite is much cooler, this certainly is not a meteorite. The appearance is all wrong, and you can see quartz (or similar) looking mineral on the outside which does not occur in meteorites.
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Agree, first thing I thought was "thats got quartz in it".
 

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