I discreetly bow to those more experienced: ( the last two picts are small, sorry)
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Here is her story,
"I picked this up in country New South Wales in a National Park Wilderness
area. It is unlike any surrounding rocks or any that I have seen in that
district. I have done quite a bit of fossicking for sapphires & rubies
and seen nothing like this. The area is mostly volcanic basalt overlying
granidiorite and some granitic areas. This may be terrestrial iron, but
if so, it perhaps may have become airborne from the volcano?, as it is
oriented and has a rollover lip. It is heavier than other rocks of similar
size, but not considerably so, (125 gms), and it is slightly magnetic,
but not considerably so. Size is 2.5" x 1.5" x 1". Incidentally, there
is no industry within several hundred kilometres, and no railway line,
so it would not be smelter ore or slag."
I will pass on to her you expert observations.
Thanks,
Ken Newton
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