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[Echo7Kilo]

While drilling at Boardman Oregon, about 85 feet deep in the desert, this greenish item came up. I don't think it is a rock, but, possibly a fossil of a sponge or something. I've never seen anything like it. I have attached 3 pics. On one of the pics, it looks like a tubular skeleton structure on it.

 

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[Icewing]

Looks like melted brass that was dumped on the ground.
I have found several chunks of lead with that same finger like look to them.

 

[jewelerguy]

very interesting. sorry, I don't have a clue what it is

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Google cave fungus, it could be some calcified cave fungus.It would grow in an underground waterway that you could have drilled through.Just a guess.



the green could come from water leeching through copper deposit.

 

[4x4x4]

....What's the weight on your interesting find ?

 

[Echo7Kilo]

It weight is about the same as a rock. It's definitely not a metal. It can be chipped like a rock. It's the thin skeletal tube shapes on the flat surfaces that make me think it is somehow ocean related.

 

[diggummup]

Stalagmite or stalactite specimen from an underground cave would be my guess. Unsure of mineral composition though. Interesting to say the least.

 

[creskol]

My tonsils looked like that when I had acute strep!