shiny-sparkly silver metal, meteorite? silver? platinum?

[1bear]

I found this stone few days ago, its very sparkly, very heavy and reacts strongly to magnet.
Was wondering if you could help me to identify it...
Thanks a lot
1 bear(Scotland)

 

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[GreyGhost]

Try a scratch test on a piece of unglazed white porcelin. Most meteorites are smooth and don't have holes and nodules like that. Probably some type of terrestrial iron ore.

 

[KGCnewbieseeker]

looks like an iron meteorite to me. but you can send info to the natural history museum Identification and Advisory Service at ias2@nhm.ac.uk

 

[TerryC]

Most of those "holes" look a lot like regmaglypts to me. Possibly a meteorite. TTC

 

[supertraq]

looks

Most of those "holes" look a lot like regmaglypts to me. Possibly a meteorite. TTC

like a meteorite to me.The melted rivlets were the metal flowed when melting and the extreme velocity is not going to happen
with a terrestial rock

 

[zak_0]

Looks a bit like a meteorite but it depends on what type of area you are in. It is probably a meteorite due its inclusions and melted looking surface. Then again it could be slag. But if you have any way to cut through the rock to look for a special crystal pattern most metal meteorites have and there is a pattern of a sort of diagonal line crosshatch. Then you have yourself a meteorite.

 

[antique man]

Probably a meteorite but It's just my opinion/guess.

 

[TerryC]

Looks a bit like a meteorite but it depends on what type of area you are in. It is probably a meteorite due its inclusions and melted looking surface. Then again it could be slag. But if you have any way to cut through the rock to look for a special crystal pattern most metal meteorites have and there is a pattern of a sort of diagonal line crosshatch. Then you have yourself a meteorite.

The "crosshatch" you mention is called the Widmanstaaten (?) structure. It can only be formed "in space" in rocks that cool over millions of years.... not possible in our earth environment. TTC