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Found a rock

shmelton

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I’d say it’s definitely slag of some sort. A rock is going to be smooth on top from flood waters, and rain. There are to many undulations and not much erosion on it, a rock that close to a river would be almost smooth I would think. It could also be some type of mortar that was poured out when some kind of dock or ferry was built back when the world relied on rivers to ship goods.


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BTaylor

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Does your area have any historic iron smelting setups? Looks a lot like slag from a decent size bloomery furnace.
Not any thig like that near that area or in it's history that I am aware of at all. This is really remote big river bottoms in the on of the most undeveloped areas of the state for all of recorded history. Industry in that world was trapping, commercial fishing and years back diving to collect mussel shells.
 
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I bet Arkansas has a State Geologist. If you emailed them, they might even get back to you sometime before next year's hunting season. It looks volcanic or industrial to me but I don't know the history or geology of your area.
 

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Sure aint tellin the Ofishuls where it is now. Freakin eggheads from evarwhere would be down there tryin to science that rock into some non-sense. Aint nobody got time fer that, we got deers ta kill.

i wouldnt tell them either. chip a piece off and send it in if you have to.
 

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Not any thig like that near that area or in it's history that I am aware of at all. This is really remote big river bottoms in the on of the most undeveloped areas of the state for all of recorded history. Industry in that world was trapping, commercial fishing and years back diving to collect mussel shells.
My area had some small furnaces during colonial times along with more industrial ones. It could have been a single use furnace to supply enough iron and steel till better could be traded for.
 
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@BTaylor Do you have any buddies in the scrap business that would trust you with their 20K portable XRF analyzer? If you could get a hold of one, it should be able to tell you if it is some type of metal slag. Don't drop it!!!
 

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@BTaylor Do you have any buddies in the scrap business that would trust you with their 20K portable XRF analyzer? If you could get a hold of one, it should be able to tell you if it is some type of metal slag. Don't drop it!!!
No, dont know anyone in the scrap business.
 

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Could send a piece to the university of Arkansas identification program. They even have a form you can fill out to request unknown specimen id

I could drop it off at UALR, 10 minutes from my office. But if it is something weird, they will want to go see about it. I cant afford to get caught cutting their boat loose while they look. :cool:
 

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I could drop it off at UALR, 10 minutes from my office. But if it is something weird, they will want to go see about it. I cant afford to get caught cutting their boat loose while they look. :cool:

What are they gonna do…. Water board you??? No reason you have share the location and it’s just gonna be industrial slag I bet anyway
 

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I actually want this now.

There was a grey-haired fellow named Frank Hill from S. Carolina that got rich selling jewelry made from plastic encased quail poop. He was a good salesman.
 

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There was a grey-haired fellow named Frank Hill from S. Carolina that got rich selling jewelry made from plastic encased quail poop. He was a good salesman.

You've inspired me :)

I wonder if you got various colors of 2 part epoxy and even added colors and such and used it to encase various poops (dog, cat, deer, bear, the list is endless).....if practical jokers or edgy goth kids would scarf them up ?!?

You could do various molds. Why not a heart shaped epoxy Great Dane turd for your exMIL on Valentine's?
 
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Ckwilli

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There was a grey-haired fellow named Frank Hill from S. Carolina that got rich selling jewelry made from plastic encased quail poop. He was a good salesman.
lol, Frank O. Hill was from my home town and he and my grandfather were buddies. He was far from rich but did have his own airplane. He used to land it on a state highway beside his house. He was in the Burt Reynolds’s movie “Stroker Ace” back in the day.
 

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I love it. @BTaylor is sitting on potentially the answer to a key answer in how the earth has been formed over the years, and all he wants to do is kill deer. Lol. Better post up a booner dead on that rock.
The earth was formed because God spoke it into existence. I already knew the answer to that one and dont need some lab coat to confirm or attempt to dispute it. He also put the deers here for me to eat but I have to kilt em dead first. Dont need the same lab coat fumblin around where they dont belong screwin up the huntin. ;)
 

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What are they gonna do…. Water board you??? No reason you have share the location and it’s just gonna be industrial slag I bet anyway
Ha waterboarding wont work, I'm southern, we all have gills. It's the only way to breathe down here. You should know that being in Tennessee. No I reckon they would start trackin me with their fancy technology. Pass the luminum furl. :tearsofjoy:
 
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