The geologist missed an opportunity. “Nope, not a meteorite. Just pitch it out back there.”
I would never get that lucky, I’d end up with a chunk of sandstone or a petrified Buffalo turd 💩.
You’ve heard the story of the $100,000 doorstop?
I been using a runestone as a doorstop. I wonder if it has any value? /s
At our family homestead there’s a doorstop rock that has been on the porch for as long as I can remember — early ‘50s. Nobody knows what it is, or where it came from. It’s the color of lime Jello with white blobs in it that look like miniature marshmallows. (It isn’t lime Jello with marshmallows.)
Now we know why
'Thou shalt not kill', 'Thou shalt not steal' and 'Thou shalt not covet' were written on there.
See below...
But how is he going to prop his door open now???
There’s rocks surrounding our buildings at this complex...I’m on it!!
$75,000?
The problem with that is the moment one discovers that an object is actually significant and has an interesting story, one can never part with it. It becomes a family heirloom that succeeding generations of the family are obliged to cart around with them as long as they live.
My ‘Natural Sciences’ teacher had a ‘rock’ she kept on her desk. It was a petrified Dinosaur turd, LOL! Or so she claimed. She claimed she was old enough to have collected the sample herself, LOL!
I DID love her class, though. She was a good teacher and I especially LOVED digging for fossils and such with her at our local gravel pit.
She was one old lady that was REALLY excited about rocks!
being a michgander myself, I know FOR A FACT in my life I have thrown several of those same exact looking rocks out into the lakes around here!! especially the greats Huron and Michigan!! look like very course pumice but very heavey in weight. all were about the size of a baseball or a bit smaller!!
Live and learn I guess!!
In todays world of lowered expectations $75,000 is now considered a “fortune”?
I have been to Edmore, Mi.
Just go to a steel mill to get some slag.
Nice eyewitness account, though secondhand.