Looking like meteorite?

Hi all,
Found this in Armenia a few month ago in mountainside, very far from any habitation. Contains near 70% Iron. I digged this from 0.4 m. What is it? Looking like meteorite? My MD is PI-type, designed by myself.

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1. raulmariejoy

Was at the bottom of a small mountain brook. Unfortunately, without any fixing nails.

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Gambol, nails don't stick to it because iron is not magnetized and is not a magnet. But external magnet stick to it very well. One of them I cutted using diamond saw, you can see metallic spots at its surface (see photo). The ball-shaped magnet fixed to surface very well. Can we meet "nuggets" of iron in nature?

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Gambol, many thanks for the information. There is laboratory in Moscow:
http://www.geokhi.ru/~meteorit/metengl-e.html
The Laboratory's main fields of research are meteorites, I think to appeal to laboratory  some day.
And what about fossils?
I live in Armenia, Yerevan. My home situated 1400 м above sea level, against the backdrop of Mount Ararat. I found many
 fossils nearest of my living place (see photo). The big part of  fossils are shelf calcium coral.
 At times I find silicified corals there, and cutting, treating and polishing is my hobby.
Gambol, what do you think about age of fossils?

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Gambol, I haven't found Trilobites here, but i found silicified wood and twice silicified dinosaur-bone in different places nearest my living place. In other places of Armenia I found a lot of arrow heads the native armenians made from the black obsidian.

I like looking for treasure, Armenia is a museum under the open sky, rich of events.
But there are serious restrictions. Near monuments of culture to emerge with the detector in hand, and even more so with a shovel is prohibited, protected by the state. I think it's very right, to protect from damages. But there are many other places for hunting: ancient settlements, the caravan routes and etc. I have a not bad collection of antiquities, I am preparing and waiting hunting season now.

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technos, wiki( iron ore )and look down about 3 paragraph

"Metallic iron is virtually unknown on the surface of the Earth except as iron-nickel alloys from meteorites and very rare forms of deep mantle xenoliths. Therefore, all sources of iron used by human industry exploit iron oxide minerals, the primary form which is used in industry being hematite."

phs.
sasha, I took a virtural tour of Armenia today and it looks like a place I would like to visit.

I am especially interested in historic monastic ruins which Armenia has plenty of.

In USA the state and Federal lands are completely restricted from metal detecting. Most lands here are private and the only restrictions is permission from the land owner which is sometimes hard to get.

I would be intersted in treasure hunting around old caravan routes especially. I read a book "Miracle of Gold" by Jennifer Marx. She said that in the Hellenistic age the armies were paid with loot as they traveled through the country and when the loot got too heavy to carry the soldiers would bury it along the way intending to come back for it. Many got killed and never came back.  Somewhere in along the Tigris there is a region she called the "golden road" because so much treasure was buried along this route. Alexander the Great used this route as did Xerxes. I know you know all this because you live there and I have wanted to look in that area ever since I read this book.

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Also we have a very similar type of rock here called --ironstone--very heavy--and was mined to extract the iron, and is the same orange -red colour.  The fossils as i have said in another thread are i think are mid -late cretatious---65 to 90 million years old.

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Technos, You are right he needs to take it to a meteor expert to find out what it is.
Sasha, One way to distinguish magnetite from iron is to crush it. magnetite crushes to a powder like pyrite, iron, like gold does not.



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