What is this rock?

by Rose
(Monroe, LA, USA)

I found this rock in the White Mountains in NH and I picked it up for it's interesting shape. It's approximately as hard as a quartz sample I have. In addition, it is weakly magnetic, enough for a magnet to stick to it but, not enough to overcome gravity if you move or tip the sample at all. I did not observe any streak, my guess is that it is too hard to produce one. Also, it is fairly dense for a sample this size- I don't have an accurate way to measure it, but is much heavier than the granite, limestone, and sandstone samples I have of approximately the same size

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Sep 29, 2020
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Ancient Art
by: Donna Garrison

If you put this in boiling water for 20 minutes, remove from water to allow cooling. You should see something dramatically different. If you see birds or a bird then it is preflood or pre adamic. You can put it in a plastic container and add vinegar, cover, and take out in 2 weeks. Rinse well and clean with soft tooth brush and dawn dish soap. It may need another week or two in vinegar. I have 10,000. Artifacts. This culture was highly intelligent, skilled, and had technology we don't have today. I believe it is the same era as the sphinx and Pyramid of Giza. I tried, for two years, to match streak, Mom's Scale for hardness and nothing made since. I finally realized these were sculpted from their own mixture of concrete. Lots of deep color and different densities also. If you want, email me and I will send you photos of some of mine. Some look like made by beginners and others so elegant and beautiful. I feel so blessed to have them. The universities in North America will not acknowledge these artifacts. I have wood and bones too.

Feb 21, 2019
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by: Douglas

Rose I can't tell you much about this rock. I did find this about the geology of the White MTS, NH

https://www.fs.usda.gov/activity/whitemountain/recreation/rocks-minerals

Basically it says that the rocks from that area are mostly granite and volcanic rocks overlain with glacial till. It sounds like you have eliminated the first 2. The glacial till is the wild card. it could be almost anything! I would guess an iron ore or possibly loadstone. It looks like a rock within a rock. maybe a concretion wrapped around another rock. Are both parts equally magnetic?

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