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    Click image for larger version  Name:	IMG_1238.JPG Views:	1 Size:	111.5 KB ID:	385046 Click image for larger version  Name:	Nathans river rock.JPG Views:	1 Size:	51.9 KB ID:	385047 A little fossil hunting pal of mine dropped by last night with this. He found in in the Illinois River near Ottawa. I looked at it under the lens and it looks to have a lot of shiny bits of silica in it. Its water worn of course. I think it broke off a larger piece also. Looks like two materials fused together. It has a dense feel to it but the rare earth magnet did not grab to it. Its not a fossil just a cool little rock.
    Last edited by BabaORiley; 08-12-2019, 05:32 AM.
    The chase is better than the catch...
    I'm Frank and I'm from the flatlands of N'Eastern Illinois...

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    My guesses are probably way off kilter, but it may be hematite, or an ore of some kind. Because it didn't attach itself to a magnet, it probably isn't hematite.
    "The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee

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    • #3
      Just a wild guess, perhaps coprolite .....
      Lubbock County Tx

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      • BabaORiley
        BabaORiley commented
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        Lol...LM...yes we did consider that...

      • sailorjoe
        sailorjoe commented
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        Hi LM. It's a better guess than anything I can offer. But HST, it makes me wonder--what kind of a critter makes one looking like that? lol

      • Lindenmeier-Man
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        Lol

    • #4
      Kind of looks like some slags I have seen come out of the mills..
      Searching the fields of NW Indiana and SW Michigan

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