Georgia is rich in Iron ore mining/smelting.I just yesterday was given some black glassy chunks.I thought hmmmm..Impact material/tektite?..I mean these chunks are Huge!..I just today did the test described on Norms site "the Tektite Source"..with an oxy/acetylene torch.I didn't froth up like pic 1,but instead looks like pic 2..I held the torch there for more than a minute..and it reached Incandescent stage,,blinding hot.I don't know what to think of this material,the largest chunk I picked up today,weighs,an astounding 14 pounds!...(and that was just a chunk off a much bigger peice) Alot of this material has lechatelierite threads.
It also has microscopic Iron Spherules,along with bigger chunks of Iron,some looking like Sikhote-Alin material.(sculpted Shrapnel).Color is a light yellow to a light green,but
looks black,
Kevin W.L.Decker
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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 15:35:37 EDT
>Colorado is very rich in slag too.
>For nearly a century CF & I operated a large smelter just south of Pueblo.
>There are still "hills" of slag all around it. And slag was found to be cheap
>and very practical to build the under-laying layers of roads and rail-road
>tracks, it is solid and does not shatter in winter.
>Result: it is everywhere!
>And I am regularly handed some at local mineral shows.
>
>Anne M. Black
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>In a message dated 7/6/2007 8:53:47 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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>At 14:59 05-07-07 Thursday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I don't know why this slag tests positive for nickel, but it does!
>
>
>People have been making iron and disposing of the
>waste for several hundred years in this area and
>much of the US. The most common kinds of local
>meteorwrong I encounter are hematite nodules -
>iron ore - that weather out of the local
>limestone. This stuff has been used as feed
>stock for mom-and-pop iron smelting operations in
>the Ozarks since the 1800's. As Tom Phillips
>said, the processes were not as efficient as
>today, so a lot of iron metal was left
>behind. People have brought us all kinds of
>glassy stuff with metal in it, one of which even had the imprint of a bolt:
>
>http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/m026.htm
>
>
>Two months ago a fellow came to my office with
>the ugliest 60-lb chunk of iron I've ever
>seen. He'd dug it up while "grub hoeing" in
>south St. Louis Co. There was no smooth surface,
>it was very rusty, and it was full of
>cavities. It didn't "look like" an iron
>meteorites to me, but I have no experience with
>iron meteorites that have been in the ground for
>100's to 1000's of years, so I really don't know
>what to expect. In a post 2 months ago, Eric
>Twelker said "Those of us who are lucky enough to
>have hundreds or thousands of meteorites pass
>through our hands possess a store of knowledge
>that has real value to academics that haven¹t had
>this experience." I agree, and I wish I had that knowledge!
>
>I neglected to get a photo of the thing. I did a
>quick nickel test, though, with one of those
>nickel allergy test kits and got a positive
>result*. So, I cut a piece off and analyzed it
>for the Fe, Ni, Co, Au, and Ir. Strange results:
>
> >Fe 89%
> >Ni 600 ppm
> >Co 62 ppm
> >Ir 1 ppb
> >Au 12 ppb
>
>The object cannot be a meteorite because the
>concentrations of Ni and Co are 100x too low for
>metal in any kind of meteorite. Yet, the
>concentrations of Ni, Co, Ir, and Au are all
>higher that I would expect for iron smelted from
>iron ore. More weird is that the relative
>concentrations of those elements (ratios) are not
>out of line for an iron meteorite. It's as
>though the metal is 1% iron meteorite and 99%
>pure iron. I don't know what this thing is.
>
>Similarly, a fellow from Colorado sent this photo
>and a small sample a couple of years ago:
>
>http://meteorites.wustl.edu/meteorwrongs/m122.htm
>
>It is also a a man-made piece of iron, but one
>with far more Ni and Co than in any iron oxide ore I've ever analyzed.
>
> >Fe 90%
> >Ni 2590 ppm
> >Co 131 ppm
> >Ir <14 ppb
> >Au 85 ppb
>
>I don't get it.
>
>Randy Korotev
>
>
>* Note that the dimethyl glyoxime [DMG] test for
>Ni is very sensitive. If it gives a positive
>result for 600 ppm Ni, then it is too sensitive
>to really be of much use in distinguishing
>meteoritic metal from terrestrial metal. A
>negative result should be helpful, however, if the test is done correctly.)
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