What is it? meteorit?

Auzinsh

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Please help, it is meteorit? After the primary features correspond meteorites, are heavier than stone, magnet take it.
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kezhk

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The rounded knob would suggest it is haematite and the magnetic properties suggest magnetite- both iron ores. To me it looks like a lump of slag, which is a byproduct of mining/furnaces.
I don't think it is a meteorite, a meteorite would tend to be a little uniform over the surface and richer in elemental iron.
 

UnderMiner

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This is what a typical iron/metallic meteorite looks like:
sikhote-alin-meteorite-750.jpg
This is what a blob of smelted metal looks like:
melted aluminum blob.JPG
I conclude that you have a nice blob of metal that missed its mold during a casting process or was melted in an accidental fire. :thumbsup:
 

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20160118_120242.jpg 20160118_120931.jpg 20160118_120938.jpg 20160118_121009.jpg 20160118_121247.jpg it,s magetic and wery heavy :-) omg how to change picture sieze hehe
 

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