[meteorite-list] looks like slag

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jan 24 15:38:14 2006
Message-ID: <012420062038.25868.43D690320001E1A50000650C21612436460299019BA1089F0A9C0106_at_att.net>

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

Bill


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
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 _at_ 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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Received on Tue 24 Jan 2006 03:38:11 PM PST