Very stumped on these stones (edit)

Lindsey

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Jul 12, 2009
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My fiance and I went out fossil hunting and came home with something other than fossils. They are quite glittery and the sun shining on them is what brought our attention to them, at first I thought Pyrite but after doing some research I crossed that out(but then I don't know), the mineral is formed on a quite heavy metal feeling stone which is shiny metallic silver on the inside, all stones together weigh about 5lbs. Not sure of the environment that they originated as we found them in the North Sulphur River and as anyone knows flowing water moves stuff around. Some appear to have been melted and re-hardened. The pictures don't do justice as many of them are very sparkly and I was a bit rushed due to the battery life of my camera, which died just in time for me to take the pictures, so I hope they work well enough. I might be forgetting something to say but I'm sure it will come to me as a I get replies. Any help is greatly appreciated as I've never found anything like this before.
 

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I went to the gem and mineral show in Dallas just the other weekend and took a piece of it with me and a couple of guys there were very quick to call it marcasite also. I want to thank everyone for there help, I didn't doubt anyone just wanted to get an in person opinion since they can hold it and such, I'm also pretty thrilled that it's not just your basic pyrite. Just makes me wish I grabbed more, my husband just told me the other day that he left ALOT behind, it was getting to heavy to haul and he ran out of room to carry it. What matters most is I won't forget where we found it :tongue3: :laughing7:
 

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