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Hi, I found this piece of metal. It is magnetic and it tests extremely positive for nickel with the nickel testing solution. I thought it might be an iron nickel meteorite and I sent some pics for meteorite identification but it got rejected as meteorite, and so now I’m wondering what it could be? I did some research and there is something called native terrestrial telluric iron which is also very rare. Can anyone help to figure out what this thing is and if it is something rare, how much would it be worth?
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I think it may be a chunk of nickel. Here is one that is sliced in half.
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rebelminer

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That looks like a hunk of babbit. Babbit was used as a lubricant/filler for bearings back in the steam engine days. I have some that looks just like that. The mechanics would melt it in a cast iron dipper. All of the babbit bearings had a small hole to pour this melted metal into the bearing housing. Once it cooled it became the inside of a bearing that a shaft spun in. That piece looks just like someone knocked it out of the dipper after it cooled. That's where mine came from because I knocked the peice I have out of my grandfathers dipper about 45 years ago. He was a blacksmith.
 

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