So, this has me pretty stumped.

[DanScott96]

Any ideas on this?

I keep hearing "vesicular basalt" but this has me stumped. Found near Lone Mountain Nevada yesterday evening, was the ONLY rock like it within my field of view. It's heavy for it's size (about as heavy as 2 cans of pepsi), has what I think is a very worn fusion crust, has rust in some of the pitting, seems to have iron in some areas of the exterior, and it's SOLID inside. Being solid, it's very highly unlikely that it's a vesicular basalt according to my reading so far. After I'd chipped the edge I noticed alot of small, randomly shaped inclusions or splotches of another mineral or rock type within, not the pitting I was told would be found. I also found what I think to be a similar but very different meteorite at the same location. This one is just as heavy, no inner vesicular structure as with the other, and it has a old but still shiny fusion crust too. See pictures below.

Could either of these be a meteorite? The first one would have to had fell in water to get the vesicular looking texture, but it'd be extremely old if that were the case due to the elevation it was found. It could have landed in snow that later melted, leaving it for ages until I found it. The other, I'm not sure about. It is vesicular too but a very different type from the cooler one.

I need some second opinions.

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My first thoughts would be types of Iron ore. But wow, I would be also thinking meteorites they have the look, research if the area is a known strewn field, if so it brings up the possibility of it being a meteorite, but the only real way to determine if it is a meteorite would be to have them tested .

 

[DanScott96]

My first thoughts would be types of Iron ore. But wow, I would be also thinking meteorites they have the look, research if the area is a known strewn field, if so it brings up the possibility of it being a meteorite, but the only real way to determine if it is a meteorite would be to have them tested .

So, you got me pretty excited now. I found a map made by data from the meteoritical society of impacts in the last century alone. Well, turns out there are TWO that hit very close to where I found these two and multiple within a few dozen miles.

The blue arrow is my estimate of where I found em and the two closest are circled.

So I'm now thinking they really are meteorites that may have fell in a cluster there. Found both 3 to 4 miles from Tonopah Nevada, I was still beside Lone Mountain. Now I need to try and compile a map of suspected impact areas for the area.