WildWildWest said there is a kimberlite mine 20 miles from here.... Maybe they looked here too? Our neighborhood was plotted in 1950's
Your rock (although weathered and worn) looks similar in color to the rocks in the link I posted above. Are you anywhere near some of those identified sites on the map in the link?
I think you may be right! Yes, within 20 miles of 2 of the kimberlite mines. The mines are in the mountains and I am not, maybe they washed down? . I know this lake flooded in the mid to late 1940's. I was also reading about frost heaves on here, put your insight , the flood and frost heaves together and it makes sense.
I think 20 miles is a little far to travel by it's self but seeing as the area is mineral rich, it's likely they did rock sample all around the area including your neighborhood.
Not tryin to scare you but yes that is a core sample from someone wanting to know what is underfoot. What it is I would have no idea. I do know this though. A brother from a different mother used to live around your neck of the woods and bought a place in the sticks to get away from the hustle and bustle of being a silent son. The place was an abandoned cabin and needed a well and after drilling 1 or 2 hundred feet (if I remember correctly) he hit a pocket of uranium. Needless to say, a well was out of the question. This was a little closer to Cheyanne. But look on the bright side, if you got uranium layin on the ground, that will provide way more heat than far wood or pellets ever could.
Hey friend!! Who knows whats under the ground here, What I do know is that the few wells here the water is so hard and salty its not worth the expense paying for drilling to see *if* we could a good pocket, or use a well with such bad water. The original 600 sq ft place was supposedly built for a veteran by the government from what I was told by neighbors. He had a different bunk years earlier but it was flooded out so they built him another-here, a few blocks away on higher ground. I am sooo curious why it's here: Diamond seekers before the 50's? Government looking for uranium? Orig builder trying for a well? Second owner looking for well? (we are the 4th owner) Was it washed onto my property from floods? Or brought up from the mud with frost heaves? Also, it's tapered. Leaning towards core sample but not discounting and indian relic (few different tribes here over the years) and it has worn down spots that fit a womans hand well, (thumb/index and middle fingers).
Space debris from when SkyLab fell to earth in 1979, not for sure what part of the spaceship it come from.
That was held in place by a piece of slightly tapered stone, long thought to be lost somewhere in Wyo.
Is it like a granite for feel and weight? At my parents where an old barn sat I found something similar in size but it was light almost like aluminum and the neigbor said it was broken chunks of electrode from old batteries used to power lights before power was run to the farmsteads.
It's very light, too light weight to be granite. It was within yards of an old barn with the ceramic electicity hook up to it. Nice to see you
You may be on to something with the relic theory as it is worn down, tapered, and a smaller diameter than core samples I'm used to seeing. However decades of weathering could cause a core to look similar. To my knowledge, you wouldn't get core samples when drilling a well or installing a survey monument. These are typically just drilled in/through rock with a solid bit. You typically use a hollow core bit to see what in the material/rock below.
