Weird rock or mineral I asked I geologist from Missouri and he can't identify..Can Yo

[MissouriHunter573]

What ROCK OR MINERAL IS THIS THING HEREHELP!!

 

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[Tuberale]

Is it magnetic? Possibly magnetite.

 

[MissouriHunter573]

Not magnetic but looks like it should be.may be using wrong magnets to confirm also

 

[MissouriHunter573]

Help me out fellas 144 views one possibility?

 

[Kevin in IN]

Looks like a fragment of something cast from maybe bronze, just guessing.

 

[Argentium]

It really looks like part of a corner of a heavy cast metal something - industrial part of some kind ?

 

[MissouriHunter573]

I REALLY DONT KNOW IT DOES LOOK LIKE SOME TYPE OF TOOL CANT BE THOUGH IT HAS ROCK OR MINERAL FEATURES... MAY BE SOME TYPE OF COPPER MATERIAL SOMETHING IDK I NEED A SOLID ANSWER REALLY

 

[MissouriHunter573]

The inside is a grey hole in rock shows grey underneath or silver

 

[MissouriHunter573]

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[MissouriHunter573]

The whole looks man made though it has me confused

 

[Tuberale]

Gotta have a space between the attachments.

 

[smokeythecat]

Looks like a metallic "melt" to me. May be in the brass/bronze class. Only a test will give you the correct answer.

 

[galenrog]

Why would you believe it to be a rock or mineral, as your post title suggests? All signs indicate part of a casting. Color, shape, hole. All suggest a man made object. Brass or bronze. Probably bronze. Poor casting at that, but I do know bronze artists who occasionally have porous looking results.

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[Ol' Kentuck]

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Galena, showing some association with Barite (the white stuff). Galena is a main source of Lead ore. Lead has been mined all over the state of Missouri in its natural form, which is in combination with galena, copper, and small traces of silver. In the old days Base bars of this natural lead ore were commonly produced for ease of transportation to a refining facility. This looks like a chunk of one of those base bars to me.


Now that I think on it, that hunk of metal looks mighty familiar.

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[MissouriHunter573]

So is it old a tool a rock a what.. worth anything?