[meteorite-list] looks like slag

[joseph_town at att.net]

Wow Doug, you've been tripping since you were 7?

Bill


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From: MexicoDoug at aol.com
> Ed, Bernd, Well, I wish I had seen this message  to Bernd earlier - it made 
> me think of a trip I was on when I was about 7 years  old to "Batsto Village".  
> This meteorwrong is most probably "Batsto Ore" or  "Batsto Slag".  Batsto ran 
> one of the larger foundries in the Pine Barrens  of New Jersey during the 
> American War of Independence and supplied George  Washington's troops with this 
> finished product to add some iron to the Redcoats'  diets and the cannon balls 
> to send many a British ship to rest with the  crustaceans at the bottom of the 
> seas.  Certainly this is interesting  material, and the fact that it is far 
> from highways today doesn't necessary  reflect the situation of colonial roads 
> and supply lines 230 years ago...There  were many foundries scattered through 
> the area near the pinelands, as the pine  was the fuel for the foundries and 
> the "ore" was found on the surface in many  places...
> 
> A quick Google finds a nice picture of the ore material, and  other sites 
> mention that limonite deposits used as raw material in the area are  called "bog 
> iron".    Your meteorwrong has a British  pedigree!
> http://65.160.49.117/batsto_ore.htm
> Here is another find from  the web, an advertisement from a 1775 store, I 
> believe in Philadelphia - shows  there was a lot of this stuff to go around:
> "TO BE SOLD,  By Little and  Flower, at their store in Second-street, six 
> doors above Arch-
> street, sixty  ton of Batsto pig iron,"
> 
> Just found this,  
> http://www.allgetaways.com/view_destination.asp?DestinationID=XGP533-012
> 
> Saludos,  Doug
> 
> In a message dated 1/23/2006 4:39:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> roc350 at optonline.net writes:
> >Dear List,
> 
> >Bernd  asked:
> 
> >"Well, where exactly (state, area) did you find it? What do  you think its 
> specific gravity
> is? If it happens to look like a sphere, one  might easily (but roughly) 
> compute/estimate
> its specific  weight."
> 
> >This material was found in New Jersey. The woods in which it  was found is 
> part of thousands of acres of undeveloped land (mostly state &  watershed 
> property). I was @ 30 miles in from the nearest road.
> 
> >They  do not look like spheres.
> 
> >As far as specific gravity, I have no  idea....a piece the size of a man's 
> fist weighs close to 2 lbs. It's  heavy!
> 
> Ed  
> 
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