Found this under a cliff behind a waterfall.

[Pinemountainpetie]

Found this peculiar object/stone or whatever it is behind a waterfall. Made the detector go absolute nuts. It appears to be in a stone form, but is has a metallic looking surface and seems to have a "flow with the grain" texture if that makes sense. Its a lil bigger than a marble, Any ideas?

 

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[BosnMate]

A bit of lead. Can you scratch it with your fingernail. Pure lead is that soft.

 

[Pinemountainpetie]

Just tried, can't scratch it with finger nail...
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[Inches from Insanity]

I find that stuff all the time. Most of it around old burn pits, I think its pot metal that melted in a fire but don't know for sure.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Flattened lead slug or ball? What's the other side look like?

 

[Pinemountainpetie]

It's fairly flat.... not completely. And as far as fire pit, Noone has been in area in awhile...it's private property

 

[Pinemountainpetie]

And if it was a burn pot...wouldn't there be more than one piece...?

 

[huntsman53]

Is there a lot a Limestone in the area? If so, then it is possible that it is raw Magnesium Ore.


Frank

 

[Pinemountainpetie]

Mostly sandstone. ...

 

[Inches from Insanity]

That would make sense where I'm at. I live in what we call "post rock country". When the area was settled there weren't enough trees to make fence posts so all the farmers quarried limestone for posts to fence in their fields. A lot of old churches and bridges were built with limestone also. (Gorgeous structures) There is literally megatons of limestone here.

 

[d2]

Looks sorta like a piece of melted aluminum...d2

 

[Pinemountainpetie]

That was my first thought. But you can't scratch it nor bend the thin edges. I took a knife to see if I could put a pressure mark on it and I couldn't.

 

[boogeyman]

Take it to a jewelry store or a pawn shop and have them test it. That'll eliminate silver & platinum. If you have a lapidary store or rockhound club they should be able to give you a hand determining whether it's a Leaverite or a keeper.

 

[huntsman53]

That would make sense where I'm at. I live in what we call "post rock country". When the area was settled there weren't enough trees to make fence posts so all the farmers quarried limestone for posts to fence in their fields. A lot of old churches and bridges were built with limestone also. (Gorgeous structures) There is literally megatons of limestone here.

I know what you mean! While there are plenty of trees here, many of the old settlers used the rocks for fencing as well or walls around the perimeter of their' homes. There are also large Limestone rocks and layers exposed by errosion that have fairly large pieces of Magnesium Ore sticking out of them. You know that they are Magnesium because while the Limestone erodes away from rain, wind and runoff, the Magnesium doesn't erode and becomes more and more visible. The area that I live in sits over top one of the largest Magnesium Mines in the Country. It is like a large open city within the Mine and they drive large Dump Trucks and Dump Tractor-Trailer Trucks right under most of the homes. This has always worried me as when I lived in West Virginia, we could purchase Mine Subsidence Insurance but here they don't even know what that is, you can't purchase the Insurance because it is only offered through the Federal Government and must be made available to the Insurance companies via some sort of legislation.


Frank