Strange Pendant

[Scubacat]

I found this strange pendant and I would like to ask the illustrious assembly for the input. When I dug the thing out I thought it was a silver pendant with with some caked rust inside. Weird, but who knows what ordeals the pendant went through. I did my best to clean it using warm water, vinegar and a screw. I had to be careful with vinegar not to destroy the stone. It turns out that piece of something in the pendant is fixed there on purpose. And that thing does not look fancy. No it is not.

 

[romyrome]

Might me a meteor

 

[markinmichigan]

My Grandfather was into lapidary and when he found something that caught his eye, he would mount it as a pendent, belt buckle, bolo or ring. Looks cool to me.

Mark in Michigan

 

[KingTotsalot]

check the sample with a magnet, might be a meteorite......

 

[itsaring!]

Might me a meteor

It does look meteoright possibility!

 

[Scubacat]

Thank you, guys! Meteorite was my only idea, but I did not want to channel your ideas. And I did not think about magnet. Yes, it is highly magnetic.

 

[TampaBayBrad]

Looks like the upper stone could be peridot or amber. Cool find.

 

[bottlecap4u]

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[Scubacat]

Looks like the upper stone could be peridot or amber. Cool find.

Not amber for sure, but peridot is a possibility. I wish I could be better at identifying them.

 

[HungryGhost]

Wow that’s freaking cool. I’m going with meteorite

 

[scoundrel]

That does not look like any meteorite I have ever seen. I think maybe the person who found it thought it was a meteorite and had it mounted.

 

[Cupajo]

General definition- --treasure= anything that has significant value to someone regardless of its monetary worth!!

A rare treasure for sure!!

CJ

 

[Kansashunter]

I agree with the others, that is a cool find!!

 

[GroundSweeper]

Could try a streak test. Cool find!

• Streak: if you scratch a meteorite on an unglazed ceramic surface, it should not leave a streak. A dense rock that leaves a black or red streak probably contains the iron minerals magnetite or hematite, respectively, neither of which are typically found in meteorites.

 

[DJW]

Intriguing find, nice pendant and does appear to be a meteorite..

 

[Scubacat]

Could try a streak test. Cool find!

Hmm. Thanks. I tried to scratch the metal against the bottom of a clay pot. Nothing first, but when I pressed it real hard I got a thin grayish line.

 

[Scubacat]

That does not look like any meteorite I have ever seen. I think maybe the person who found it thought it was a meteorite and had it mounted.

My son offered the only alternative version. The piece of metal came from some bigger metal thing that was of some sentimental or other value to the maker.

 

[TampaBayBrad]

Go outside tonight and throw it as high as you can. If it lights up as it's coming down, it's a meteorite.

 

[Rock Jock]

Hmm. Thanks. I tried to scratch the metal against the bottom of a clay pot. Nothing first, but when I pressed it real hard I got a thin grayish line.

Try using the bottom unglazed rim of a white porcelain dish. That is the best type of surface that is commonly available when you don't have a white porcelain streak plate that is designed specifically for streak tests.

 

[FoiledAgain]

That is almost certainly an iron meteorite. It wouldn't make any sense for someone to go to all the trouble to mount it if it were not the real thing (of course they might be trying to fake it). A scratch test on unglazed ceramic using a spot of bare iron will give a gray streak. Obviously, if you scratch using a rusty spot it will give a red/brown streak. This is not like hematite, a commonly silvery iron mineral which gives a red/brown streak. Very likely the yellow/green stone is olivine (peridot), which is often associated with stony iron meteorites. Olivine has a Moh's hardness of around 6-7, comparable to quartz and orthoclase feldspar; thus it can easily be scarred up like the stone shown in your pictures. Iron and stony iron meteorites are not all that common, so you have a very cool and unusual find there. Congrats!