Is this Hematite?

[Tipton]

I need help identifying this rock. It has some small clear crystals forming but hard to see in photos. A small rare earth magnet has a light attraction. My wand reacts to only one small section of this object. Hoping its not space poop.
Thanks for any information.

 

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[loco oro]

looks like it might be slag, looks like air pockets in it, just a guess though

 

[Eu_citzen]

Slag is also my first thought.

 

[Brian T. Booth]

I need help identifying this rock. It has some small clear crystals forming but hard to see in photos. A small rare earth magnet has a light attraction. My wand reacts to only one small section of this object. Hoping its not space poop.
Thanks for any information.

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Looks to be slag

 

[Rattlehead]

slag

 

[woof!]

I've seen gossan limonite that looked about like that, but slag that looks like that, too. A streak test would tell the difference, the limonite would streak brown or yellow, whereas the slag would probably streak black. If you don't have a streak plate, try the underside of the lid on the W. C. of the modern home's most important piece of ceramic furniture, it may do ya.

--Dave J.

 

[Tipton]

Thanks. I found a large amount of rocks very simular to this along a stone bed stream after a storm that washed out a 100 ft bank of earth. It wasn't present before the "epic" storm.

 

[rock]

I find quite a bit of slag around creeks. Most of the old iron mills were around a water source which was needed to process.