Posted: 9/4/2010 6:40:32 PM EDT
| I found a rock, while smoothing out my gunrange, Its doesnt seem to have the same structure as coal, but the inside of the rock is Black, which rubs off easily on the hands, There are two rings of yellow on top of the rock (Havent washed it off to see if there are more) i wanna say the inside is crystalline, but im not sure how to describe it. What other rocks have a black center that easily rubs off on your hands? Im on WV if it helps. |
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I found a rock, while smoothing out my gunrange, Its doesnt seem to have the same structure as coal, but the inside of the rock is Black, which rubs off easily on the hands, There are two rings of yellow on top of the rock (Havent washed it off to see if there are more) i wanna say the inside is crystalline, but im not sure how to describe it. What other rocks have a black center that easily rubs off on your hands? Im on WV if it helps. 1) What part of WV? It is a Geologically very, very diverse state compared to some place like Kansas. 2) A pic would help. 3) Could be Pyrite in Coal. |
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I found a rock, while smoothing out my gunrange, Its doesnt seem to have the same structure as coal, but the inside of the rock is Black, which rubs off easily on the hands, There are two rings of yellow on top of the rock (Havent washed it off to see if there are more) i wanna say the inside is crystalline, but im not sure how to describe it. What other rocks have a black center that easily rubs off on your hands? Im on WV if it helps. 1) What part of WV? It is a Geologically very, very diverse state compared to some place like Kansas. 2) A pic would help. 3) Could be Pyrite in Coal. Near the ohio/wv border, jackson county. |
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Quoted: It might also be nothing more than some boiler slag your range was gravelled with. Ha, I wondered about that as well. Up where I'm from we have some steel mills. Many times growing up I heard "MAN THIS MUST BE A METEOR" "No, sorry to burst your bubble but this is slag from the mill."  |
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I found a rock, while smoothing out my gunrange, Its doesnt seem to have the same structure as coal, but the inside of the rock is Black, which rubs off easily on the hands, There are two rings of yellow on top of the rock (Havent washed it off to see if there are more) i wanna say the inside is crystalline, but im not sure how to describe it. What other rocks have a black center that easily rubs off on your hands? Im on WV if it helps. 1) What part of WV? It is a Geologically very, very diverse state compared to some place like Kansas. 2) A pic would help. 3) Could be Pyrite in Coal. Near the ohio/wv border, jackson county. Lots of boilerslag from the powerplants on the river in that area. See if your range has chunks of limestone gravel with 'bubbles' in them. That is a dead giveaway for boilerslag. The other could be some kind of klinker. The yellow could be sulfur from a stack scrubber. Again, a pic would help. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I found a rock, while smoothing out my gunrange, Its doesnt seem to have the same structure as coal, but the inside of the rock is Black, which rubs off easily on the hands, There are two rings of yellow on top of the rock (Havent washed it off to see if there are more) i wanna say the inside is crystalline, but im not sure how to describe it. What other rocks have a black center that easily rubs off on your hands? Im on WV if it helps. 1) What part of WV? It is a Geologically very, very diverse state compared to some place like Kansas. 2) A pic would help. 3) Could be Pyrite in Coal. Near the ohio/wv border, jackson county. Lots of boilerslag from the powerplants on the river in that area. See if your range has chunks of limestone gravel with 'bubbles' in them. That is a dead giveaway for boilerslag. The other could be some kind of klinker. The yellow could be sulfur from a stack scrubber. Again, a pic would help. Steel mill slag smells like sulfur....I wonder if you cracked it open decades after the fact if it would still smell like this? |
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i doubt that, as this had previously been a meadow on the top of a mountain. I've found limestone before, as its pretty brittle and broke up under the dozer we were using. It depends on where the limestone came from. Limestone can be very hard. Most limestone that is used to scrub sulfur comes from Ohio Quarries or from Mercer, Greenbrier or Mon counties in WV. Those come from the Greeinbrier(in the Missippian) or older formations(mainly in the Ordivician) and is much, much harder than anything that passes for a friable thin lenticular limestone like you would find in the Upper Pennsylvanian/Lower Permian in Jackson county. To put is simply, comparing Jackson co. limestone to the stuff found in the older formations found to your east and west is like comparing Corn Production in McDowell County to any county in Iowa. Y'all might as well not have any. |
| 99.9% of Coal in WV is Bituminous with a tiny bit of Anthracite in the Eastern part of the state. Anthracite is considered a Metamorphic rock. Most is found in PA. It is Missippian in orgin chronologically speaking and you find it where the mountains are folded. |
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99.9% of Coal in WV is Bituminous with a tiny bit of Anthracite in the Eastern part of the state. Anthracite is considered a Metamorphic rock. Most is found in PA. It is Missippian in orgin chronologically speaking and you find it where the mountains are folded. Ok, then maybe it's anthracite!
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And Anthracite is used mainly for heat as it produces little smoke and has very high BTU value.
Bituminous coal is used for steam coal as it has high BTU content and some that Bituminous Coal is of a high purity and is used for metallurgical coal in Steel production. Anthracite is useless as met coal because it will not properly form coke. |
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99.9% of Coal in WV is Bituminous with a tiny bit of Anthracite in the Eastern part of the state. Anthracite is considered a Metamorphic rock. Most is found in PA. It is Missippian in orgin chronologically speaking and you find it where the mountains are folded. Ok, then maybe it's anthracite! You won't find lots of slufur in Anthracite. |
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And Anthracie is used mainly for heat as it produces little smoke and has very high BTU value. Bituminous coal is used for steam coal as it has high BTU caluse and some that is of a high purity is used for metallurgical coal. Anthracite is useless as met coal because it will not properly form coke. Ok fine... Maybe it's a dikfer then. 
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And Anthracie is used mainly for heat as it produces little smoke and has very high BTU value. Bituminous coal is used for steam coal as it has high BTU caluse and some that is of a high purity is used for metallurgical coal. Anthracite is useless as met coal because it will not properly form coke. Ok fine... Maybe it's a dikfer then. You resemble the first half of that word. |
