Featured 4,5 billion year old antique

Cleaned up it looks like slag possibly, another common leverite.

 

Iron stone from Southern California, gold basin meteorite, iron nickel Campo de Cellio (sp?) Argentina, iron nickel meteorite China.


second pic is iron stone close up.


Close up Gold Basin meteorite.


Argentina iron/nickel


Finally another iron/nickel from China.

 

Did you use a stiff wire brush on an electric motor?

im asking because your chunk of iron looks a little like the meteorite from Argentina. So if you cleaned it with the wire brush that could remove evidence of regmaglypts that look a little like a finger print.

One more test polish a window to a very high shine and use an acidic product like wink rust stain remover will over time etch the surface at different rates for nickel vs iron revealing a Widmanstatten pattern if it were meteoritic.

 

I am sorry i should not have done that, but i notice that one wrong word or sentence and everything goś sideways. And it is also alot of misunderstanding on my side especialy with long teksts and complicated terms. But maybe it is already to late.

 

I cleaned it with a stiff wire brush, but this object was so badly weathered that al the regmaglypts were gone but i could have ruined it. But it needed to know what the material was. I also posted it also on cloudy knights and they said it is probebly not a meteorite because the patrons on the iron is to fine.

 

the location where the rocks from the pile where found is an old gravel pit in the Ooijpolder

 

No worries, most times these are earthly but if buy chance it etches a pattern it is and if there is no pattern from the acid it isn’t, the acid in Whink is not very strong so give it time.

If memory serves me I believe another chemical ferric Chloride is also used to etch metal.

 

Cloudy Nights is a good resource, Nugget Shooter forums was also frequented by experts, one in particular was Mike Stang but that site went down. Detector Prospector and Treasure net are two more places you can post images and get opinions from those that know.

 

This article was a wrong turned right…

https://www.reddit.com/r/meteorites...ferric_chloride_came_today_and_i_finally_got/

 

Something else I find a lot of hunting meteorites are bullets, bird shot, cartridge casings from spent rounds some large caliber from aircraft and bomb fragments covered in rust with desert varnish that are very meteoritic looking, they did not etch a pattern.

I have XRF tested a few all came back a mixture of modern and/or similar to ordinance.

Hay maybe It could also be a very old chunk of steel lost by some Viking black smith after forging it to make a sword that would be cool.

 

My youngest son gave me this piece a number of years ago. 1 inch by 3 inches.