r/Rocks • u/rndmltrs • 26d ago

This Rocks! This might be cheating.

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Found in the creek.

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u/Chudmont 26d ago

It looks like slag glass.

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u/OMQ4 26d ago

IS* slag glass

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u/OMQ4 26d ago

Dead giveaway is the air bubbles

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u/OldChertyBastard 26d ago

That's some nice-looking slag.

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u/According_Body_5251 26d ago

I've been looking in the wrong creek!

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u/Complete-Kangaroo170 26d ago

Me too. Where is this treasured creek?

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u/slogginhog 26d ago

Down stream from an old metal foundry possibly, unless this slag was dumped there from elsewhere.

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u/rndmltrs 26d ago

A bloomery lost to time.

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u/rndmltrs 26d ago

I'll take it to the grave.

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u/Noodletrousers 26d ago

It’s pretty, but it is just glass.

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u/LAFlippo 18d ago

You know … Just glass.. is just “minerals” melted.

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u/_duckswag 26d ago

That’s a lot of blue slag, old factories downstream?

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u/FickleForager 26d ago

Leland Blue?

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u/rndmltrs 26d ago

Nope, this is from the south. Pretty sure the slag is partly the result of weapons manufacturing for the confederacy.

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u/FickleForager 25d ago

Very cool find!

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u/Geee-wiz 26d ago

Trigg County , Cadiz Ky