What could this be?

[Mary McWilliams]

I’m just basically trying to out what this could be. It was found in a residential area in Mississippi. Thank you!

[M Harvey]

not 100% positive but looks like a slag remnant  from molten metal activity.  Is it very heavy?

[Advantage]

9 hours ago, M Harvey said:

not 100% positive but looks like a slag remnant  from molten metal activity.  Is it very heavy?

 

Agree, industrial waste .

[Mary McWilliams]

No, it’s actually not that heavy at all and I thought about it being slag but it’s not magnetic in the least. Wouldn’t slag be magnetic? I also found a bunch of other things in the same area that I will be posting. I was thinking that they could be fossils but I have absolutely no experience in this sort of thing, which why I am posting them and hoping to get some answers. This one here that I posted has something imprinted features on it probably easier to see in person and that I find rather fascinating. I’ll try and take some better pictures so you can see what I am talking about. Thank you so much friend for responding and please keep an eye out for the others I plan on posting soon!

[Mary McWilliams]

One more thing that I forgot to mention that is probably important but on one side it has some kind of glue-like substance hardened on it.

[Sagebrush Steve]

Still looks like industrial waste, but not metal. Can you scratch it with a knife? Does it have any odor? Could be some sort of plastic material. Hard to say from just photos.

[Fossildude19]

Slag is not necessarily magnetic.

I wonder if tar or asphalt could be possibilities. 

 

[M Harvey]

On 12/4/2024 at 12:22 PM, Mary McWilliams said:

No, it’s actually not that heavy at all and I thought about it being slag but it’s not magnetic in the least. Wouldn’t slag be magnetic? I also found a bunch of other things in the same area that I will be posting. I was thinking that they could be fossils but I have absolutely no experience in this sort of thing, which why I am posting them and hoping to get some answers. This one here that I posted has something imprinted features on it probably easier to see in person and that I find rather fascinating. I’ll try and take some better pictures so you can see what I am talking about. Thank you so much friend for responding and please keep an eye out for the others I plan on posting soon!

slag can be quite light and non-magnetic.  During the smelting, they would skim off the impurities that rise to the surface and discard them.  It can be quite variable.