Potential Meteorite?

[beau7johnson]

Grey, brown, and iron colored red bubbles and veins and crosshatching. It has lots of thumbprints and pores. It has what appears to be a drip or melting run of some metal ore. It is magnetic and relatively porous and hollow.

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Welcome to the forum! That is NOT a meteorite - Sorry.

 

[beau7johnson]

Do you by chance have a relative idea of what it might be?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Slag from a metal works, not sure.

 

[Duckshot]

Looks like kimberlite to me. First kimberlite I found, I thought it was a meteorite.

If it is from a flume of kimberlite there might be precious stones nearby. Like diamond.

 

[huntsman53]

It really doesn't look like any Kimberlite that I have ever seen. It also doesn't look like most Lamproite specimens either.


Frank

 

[Duckshot]

Maybe it ain't kimberlite, but it looks like it to me, that along with being porous and magnetic. The rock in question also appears darker on the outside and lighter where it was broken, as flume formations would.

I'm not a geologist though.

Kimberlite from different places vary considerably from one location to another. The stuff i have found around here looks kind of like asphalt with iron leaching out. Here is a gallery of kimberlite photos-

Kimberlite

 

[bradyboy]

what do you mean by " thumb prints" ?
Brady

 

[tamrock]

Real meteorites do you have value. Potential meteorites have very little if any. You need to first find out for sure what it is you really have by someone who can tell you in person. I don't have a clue what it is by just a picture.