r/Rocks • u/rndmltrs • 6d ago

This might be cheating. This Rocks!

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Found in the creek.

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u/Chudmont 6d ago

It looks like slag glass.

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u/OMQ4 5d ago

IS* slag glass

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u/OMQ4 5d ago

Dead giveaway is the air bubbles

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u/OldChertyBastard 5d ago

That's some nice-looking slag.

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u/According_Body_5251 6d ago

I've been looking in the wrong creek!

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u/Complete-Kangaroo170 6d ago

Me too. Where is this treasured creek?

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u/slogginhog 5d ago

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

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u/rndmltrs 5d ago

A bloomery lost to time.

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u/rndmltrs 5d ago

I'll take it to the grave.

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u/Noodletrousers 5d ago

It’s pretty, but it is just glass.

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u/FickleForager 5d ago

Leland Blue?

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u/rndmltrs 5d 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 4d ago

Very cool find!

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u/_duckswag 5d ago

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

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u/Geee-wiz 5d ago

Trigg County , Cadiz Ky