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Eggs or anomaly? ID PLEASE


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I need help identifying this at first look it looks like a cluster of eggs but I’m not quite sure it is very heavy

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Not an egg sorry... You can compare it with dinosaur eggs on google 

Cool rock though :) 

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I don't think they are eggs. It might be botryoidal iron oxide or iron sulfide or more complex mineral. Can we see other sides of it?

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It is an "egg"nomoly, a pyrite or marcasite nodule. Where was it found and what formation is it from? Texas? It looks like the pyrite nodules found in the Cretaceous Austin Group rocks in Texas.

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Scratch test, acid test, scratch plate, and specific gravity all combined would be helpful.  Not being jerky, I just collect a lot of rocks.

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Thank you DPS Ammonite I work for the railroad here in Texas I found it off the railroad tracks in Tyler Texas

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Neat looking find! 

I'd have picked it up. :) 

 

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some kind of over pour from the castling/smelting process? If it's very heavy as in "brass" heavy I'd say it is some kind of scrap. We used to get military brass from all over the RR tracks when I was a kid that had spilled from scrap metal hauling hopper cars. The 50 cal brass was the prize.

  Could be pyrite or marcasite though.

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Military brass??   Anything is possible I guess but I doubt it in this part of Texas who knows though

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It is not metal. Try to scratch them with a piece of steel. It will be brittle and not malleable like metal. Also, note the worn crystal faces with angular edges on the nodule which is typical of pyrite.

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22 hours ago, Fossildude19 said:

Neat looking find! 

I'd have picked it up. :) 

 

So would i.:)

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