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Plowing up strange rocks

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Besides the usual Indian arrow head flint, and the usual field stones, what have yo'all plowed up in the past?
This unusual looking rock I plowed up a couple years ago. I don't think the picture shows enough detail. It has all kinds of quartz looking properties in it, and in circles such as one would see along the ocean. Like fossils.
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I don't do pictures but I like to look at rocks and see the different textures etc. We have about every kind of rock here, some smooth like they were in water, some with veins of sparkly in them, some shale and some like chalk that you could write with. There are also some light tan that don't weigh much are are porous, and some that look like granite, and a lot of those just plain heavy field stone. I have looked since I was a kid and have never found any arrow heads, other farms around here have many, I have walked these fields after a rain and found about every thing my Grandpa and Dad lost but never any artifacts.
 
Been looking for meteors, not even close, I'm surprised no one has mentioned finding anything like that, given the acreage YT'ers cover LOL !
 
My first Indian rock was found lodged inbetween the cylinder and concave of our 503IH combine back when I was 18. It proved to be a expensive rock. The second was when I was about 45 and actually picking rock. The first was a oval one rounded on both ends with a grove cut around the middle. The second looked more like a hatchet and was almost black in color. I took it to a historian who said the black one came from a tribe in Montana that traded it and that was how it got to Minn
 
The stone on the right looks like a geode. I think there is crystalline quartz inside geodes if you break them open. The rock on the left looks like a nugget of gold. It might be worth a 1000 dollars per ounce. Have you weighed it. I would go out in the field and look for more yellow rocks where I found that one.
 
Friend of mine was out picking up rocks with his dad. They found one that proved out to be a meteor. They didn't know what it was to start with. About the size of a football. Only for its size, it was about three times heavier than a regular rock. They set it outside the back door on the sidewalk for over a year. Someone found out about the odd rock and had it checked out. It was a meteor. They ended up selling it and got 10 to 20 thousand dollars for it. Can't really remember the exact dollar amount.
 
When Louis and Clark spent the winter in North Dakota their blacksmith melted down several cook pots to make hatchet heads and knives from for trade. Some of those tools beat them to the Pacific. Trade was pretty brisk across the northern rockies.
 
We find remnants of the La Garita Caldera explosion mixed in with aquatic fossils all the time. Pretty cool for 7500ft elevation.
 
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