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Súþseaxan

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Magnetic stones
Submitted by Súþseaxan on Wed, 12/29/2010 - 21:31.

Hello all, I live on the E Sussex coast and out on my walks I'm always finding stones, fossils and rocks that just have to come home with me Smiling face anyway I have many from the beach that are magnetic varying in colour form light brown to black, some with a smooth flat surface on one side and rough with holes on the other, any ideas what they may be, was hoping they may be meteorites ?

I hope to get some nice close up pics for easier id and post them, hope no-one minds me being lazy and relying on the members experience.

 Thanks

Gary

 

 

Gus Horsley

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It's extremely unlikely that
Thu, 12/30/2010 - 12:41

It's extremely unlikely that they're meteorites.  Most iron ores (apart from magnetite and a couple of others which aren't likely to occur in your area) aren't magnetic, so what I think you may be finding is old bits of man-made iron debris such as fragments of ships, ballast, etc.

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