A little off topic- Strange find with the Excal

[Steve and Bia]

Bia and I cut out of work and hit the Volly Ball court with the Excal. It's all sand of course which makes for excellent practice. Today, I used the XLT and when the battery died I grabbed the Excal. My second hole rang a sound I've never heard so we dug. After a foot of sand we hit dirt so I had to get my pick axe from the van. After a few pulls of gravel and dirt I checked the hole and realized I pulled the target. Waving handfulls of dirty sand over the coil I was able to locate the culprit. It is still unknown what this chunk is but after all my years of digg'n it gave a new meaning to the term "Hot Rock". By the way, we think it's raw nickel. I was able to file down one side of it.

It really is shiney!

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[Anonymous]

Do some calling around to a university with an astrophysics program. That might be a meteorite. If it is, it's worth $$$

HH from Allen in MI

 

[Dave Z]

Filed a piece of it and it looked like nickel.Didn't know what it was.Can't find it now,but am wondering if it could be a meteorite.See if you can have someone in a museum look at it.Dave

 

[Steve and Bia]

It's deceivng when you pick it up. It's almost like lead but it's so hard it will carve glass.

 

[Steve and Bia]

Meteorites can compose of iron and nickel so it's hard to say. I doubt I will call the US Geological Survey to test it but I'll eventually find out wha it is.

I may throw it in the surf at 26th street when I go to Virginia Beach. I'll use rose peddels to cover my tracks then Max will find it and think the surf god gave him a meteorite.

Ha! That was funny!

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

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[CC2_IN_CA]

Meteorites are worth more than gold.

You can have it tested to see. They cut off a slice
and run acid over it. If a crystalized pattern is seen, its metorite.

 

[Steve and Bia]

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[brocantes]

Looks like an oxidized chunk of lead.

 

[Steve and Bia]

It's too hard for lead. It took every bit of 20 minutes to file the flat side of enough to polish.
Plus, it cuts glass and leaves no mark on white paper.

 

[Nevada Gary]

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