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[andrew03]

Don't have a picture, but I found a very porous black rock that is very light weight. It is pretty sol, I can't crumble it with my hands at all. It comes up on my ace250 somewhere around a nickel.

 

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[ivan salis]

volcanic type hot rock

 

[andrew03]

That's what I thought at first too, but I live in Iowa.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Could it be Basalt?

 

[CRUSADER]

Its coke from the old steam engines

 

[ivan salis]

very possible coke as it was said -- found near an old train track or steam powered engine area maybe ?

 

[andrew03]

It was about 8" deep in my yard, no railroad tracks anywhere in the area. The place I live at was once of the first homesteads in the area and I am pretty sure that the guy who lived here was a blacksmith, due to some of the tools and weird slugs of metal I have found.
Could it be something to do with old time blacksmithing?

 

[CRUSADER]

It was about 8" deep in my yard, no railroad tracks anywhere in the area. The place I live at was once of the first homesteads in the area and I am pretty sure that the guy who lived here was a blacksmith, due to some of the tools and weird slugs of metal I have found.
Could it be something to do with old time blacksmithing?

Coke turns up all over the place. The old engines were used not only for trains etc