A new meteoric iron from North Carolina

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Abstract
out prospecting for gold, on his land near Liek Creek, Davidson County, N. C., found an unusually heavy stone of the size of a large pear, which he at first mistook for a specimen of iron ore.On attempting to break it he found that the stone would not break but was covered with a uniformly thick skin or crust which scaled off under repeated blows of the hammer.After carefully removing all he could of this crust, there remained a pear-shaped mass of what appeared to him to be a pure metal.The color of the metal, developed by hammering, was white, and this led him to conclude that it was silver.This" nugget of silver," as he called it, soon had a wide notoriety among all the mining camps in the region.This story, substantially as above related, reached me at Concord, N. C., in the autumn of 1879; my informants were the Messrs.Richard Eames, Jr. and Sr.They had seen the " nugget" and believed it to be iron, perhaps native iron; they had noticed that the" nugget" had what Mr. Eames, Jr., aptly termed "night sweats."Little beads of a yellowish fluid* * These watery exudations I have myself noticed and found to consist of chloride of iron.w. E. H.
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Authors W. E. Hidden
Journal american journal of science
Year 1880
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10.2475/ajs.s3-20.118.324
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