Maine USA Beachcomber
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- Mar 2, 2016
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Hi,
Please help me identify this. Found it on sand in Maine USA washed up from the ocean with a few thousand other rocks. I comb this beach daily for 5 years picking up trash and never saw anything like it:
Brassy metallic color
Tried it on strong magnet but no magnetic pull
Worn smooth w pitting
Dense, very heavy
Can't scratch it w a knife or scissors
Doesn't scratch a glass bottle
Rubbed it on porcelain and first rubbed dark; then nothing
Gives off odd smell like old fireworks or gun barrel when rubbed with fingers or on porcelain
Egg shaped (*many many other rocks on the beach are egg-shaped)
Have you ever seen anything like it?
Please help me identify this. Found it on sand in Maine USA washed up from the ocean with a few thousand other rocks. I comb this beach daily for 5 years picking up trash and never saw anything like it:
Brassy metallic color
Tried it on strong magnet but no magnetic pull
Worn smooth w pitting
Dense, very heavy
Can't scratch it w a knife or scissors
Doesn't scratch a glass bottle
Rubbed it on porcelain and first rubbed dark; then nothing
Gives off odd smell like old fireworks or gun barrel when rubbed with fingers or on porcelain
Egg shaped (*many many other rocks on the beach are egg-shaped)
Have you ever seen anything like it?
. No rock expert here, but if it's as heavy and you can't scratch it, I wouldn't think that wave action would cause the roundness and smoothness. Can't wait till the experts chime in to find out what it is. Cool find!
