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Common Stones can be recognized by several characteristics
Attracts magnet-on-a-string, picked up by properly tuned metal detector.

Filing or polishing off a corner can show metal, but outer layer of meteorite may show no metal because metal distribution is not even or weathering oxidized the outer layers away.
Sometimes weathered away, many basalts have slick crusts that appear like fusion crusts.
Meteorite metal rusts into oxide minerals similar to oxidation found in weathered earth
rocks.
Regmaglypts and burn orientation are rarely present except in exceptional specimens.
Many earth rocks have round mineral clasts the same diameter as the chondrules found in
chondrites. Many examples of angular, subangular, and brecciated mineral textures are found
 in stone meteorites.

Best diagnostic test is to listen for metal sound coming from the detector. Practice makes perfect so use your test meteorites to distinguish hot rocks from valuable stone meteorites.

Learn to identify hot rocks from valuable stone meteorites by using test meteorites and your metal detector.

Identifying Stone Meteorites

[Metal] Iron/Nickel

[Fusion Crust]

[Rust]

[Thumb Prints & Orientation]

[Chondrules]

Locating Meteorites
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