Michael, Nothing in your photos looks remotely suspicious. Most look to be stream-rounded quartzite pebbles. Disseminated magnetite is the likely culprit.
Some of today's magnets are just too good. I've put away my big hard-drive monster that will pull nails out of fences and opted for a small telescoping neodymium magnet. Still very strong, but it produces a better contrast between meteorites and wannabes. Like Chris said in another reply to your post, with a monster magnet it is not uncommon to find areas where nearly everything gives a response. I've seen places in Arizona with nuggets of pure magnetite. One thing that will usually help is to check the streak color (rub the specimen against unglazed porcelain or give it a stroke on your diamond hone). Most of the winners will give a rust red-brown powder (and so will some losers----), while magnetite will give a black streak and a lot of the common wannabes will give slate gray. Good luck, Norm (http://TektiteSource.com) --- Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to hunting for meteorites. I found a > magnetic rock and from what I understand this could > be a meteorite but I would like some input from > y'all. Go to > http://www.ladyofgreys.org/meteorites.htm and please > let me know if there is another explanation for a > rock being magnetic and so on > ............................ > Help is greytly appreciated. > Michael > > > > The Krachen > > http://www.ladyofgreys.org > > > > > --------------------------------- > Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check > it out. > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
