What do you think this is?

[bottlebum]

Well, I couldn't hold off any longer from showing this mysterious find.

The object was found somewhere out west, possibly Oklahoma, with a metal detector. It was found by my friends Grandfather. It's been used as a door stop for the last 50-60 years, and after all that time the color has not changed. It's about 6 inches long and around 4 inches tall. As you can see in the pictures, it is almost flat on two sides. By the colors, It looks like it had been very hot at one time. It weighs in at 10 lbs, is real heavy for its size, and is very hard. Unfortunately, the man that found it has passed away, and none of the family bothered to find out any of the particulars pertaining to where it was found. All we do know is that it was the only object like it that was found in the immediate area. We took it to the local museum in Bradenton, Florida. The museum director was very interested in it and wanted to take it with him to New York, to a meeting that he planned to attend. He wanted to let some of the other attendants at the meeting look at it to see if he could find out what it was. Since we really didn't want to let it out of our sights, we decided to pass on handing it over to him.

Here are some pics. Maybe you can help?

 

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[Jim West Pa]

Sure looks like iron pyrite to me. I dug a piece last summer and they lok a lot alike.

 

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[able_walker]

Any new info? Be sure and let us know what you find out.......

 

[EDDE]

When looking at the structure of it, you get the impression that it had alot of pressure exerted on it at one time.

Elivis's colon ??
on a serious notepart of they pyrite family think there is 5 or 6 kinds
http://www.earthly-gems.co.uk/acatalog/Pyrite_family.html

 

[deepskyal]

Could be the old guy that found it was somewhere around an old iron works and that was a piece of pyrite that didnt make it into the furnace but instead landed outside it and melted on the sides..

I found old slag in the woods once and went crazy wondering what it was and thinking I had stumbled upon an abandoned silver mine.
I took a chunk to a jewler and he was the one that told me it was common slag. But it had fine layers through it, much like a vein of ore.

Oh well...we can dream.