Featured Are there any Geologist here ? Please help identify this rock and metal formation.

I found this at a yard sale. It is very cool but I have no idea what it is. Also would something like this be valuable ? Just asking because after all the research I have done I have seen nothing like it and it is not man made.

 

Does a magnet stick to it?

Looks sort of like excess metal pour.
Wait for others to chime in.

 

Is the rust colored material magnetic,looks like iron slag.

 

It is magnetic

 

Looks man made to me, I second the slag answer, I've seen tons of it, some pieces are all stuck together and weigh hundreds of pounds.

 

This is only 6 to 8 inches high by maybe 5 “ wide I don’t know about man made though.

 

Where iron slag ends up.............. https://depositphotos.com/196855868/stock-photo-domestic-slag-discharge-iron-foundry.html

 

Now that is interesting definitely plausible.

 

looks like iron waste.....or slag art...or both !

 

Looks like slag to me.

 

Hi,
Looks like slag to me. When I was a kid, living outside Pittsburgh PA. There was a huge and I mean HUGE dump where the iron mills would dump the hot slag. The railroad would dump hundreds of rail cars of slag down a 200 foot cliff. The stuff was still burning brightly. It looked like visions of Hell. The dumping went on day and night. From a mile away you could feel the heat blasts.
greg

 

INH are you changing from our super sleuth to our court jester?

 

Had I happened to see that thing in situ, I'd have grabbed it.

No, I don't know why...

 

My immediate impression was that it was molten metal, as others have said, iron slag, that was poured into water, froze into that sort of scholar's rock free-form shape & also picked up some real rocks as it settled. Maybe broken away from a much larger mass for its interesting look.