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Hey folks, I love the internet. I had no idea there were people out there I could just ASK what my friend found! I thought I'd always have to wonder. I'm not in the same place as the fossil anymore, so I'm sorry that all I have for scale is my hand and a phone in the background of the photos. (I didn't know that was bad for scale until it wasn't in my possession anymore -- the fossil, not my hand.) I know my friend found this "neat rock" (fossil) on an active gold mine in Canada's Yukon, and that there were reports of Mammoth fossils found along the same line of claims... but never having been this close to an actual bone fossil before, I had no idea if this is an old cow bone, or that of something more interesting. I tried to load as many photos as I could so you could see it from different angles. I ask if it's mammoth or bovine only because with my luck, I'm hopeful it's a mammoth, but with my luck, it's a cow or a ox or something. I actually have no idea what kind of bone it is... it could be from anything at all. If anyone has any ideas of what it could be from, that'd be great. Unfortunately, it was on a 'worked' part of the claim, so the land had all be disturbed around it so this piece was all by its lonesome so there's not really any 'context' I can share other than that the miner seemed fairly happy with the claim site. I appreciate any help (even ideas of what part of the body it could be?) many thanks, kk