1st finds

[OldScout]

I've been waiting years to meet a geologist and it just hit me that perhaps there is a forum for that. Yup. I really enjoy searching for stuff along rivers, creeks. I have looked all over the internet to figure out what this is but can't find anything. If someone can help, I would be most appreciative. Glad to find this forum. Nice to meet ya. Jeb.

The first is a rock I guess, never have found anything like it or like the other where I look. Is the first a piece of glass? It is rainbow-pearlike on the surface of some facets. It is semi clear. But then had those grooves cut into it. I don't know why it wasn't smashed to pieces in the river if it was glass-never see anything like it at the river. The other one is green on the outside and smooth and looks like rock inside a rock? It is strange. Like someone coated a rock with something. Inside is white and crystally.



Thanks so very much! Jeb.

 

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[Mackaydon]

Old Scout,
I have no idea what you found, but I welcome you to Treasure Net where others will, undoubtedly, assist you.
Don.....

 

[DDancer]

Well Met Oldscout and welcome to the forum.

Your first bit is a bit of broken rock crystal, quartz, and your second bit is milky quartz with some crystallization on its host rock~ possibly granite or hard limestone. Not uncommon things to find creeking I suggest you pick up a book or two on rock and mineral identification to help ease you into the hobby. You could be walking by some other stuff that might hold your interest as well

 

[OldScout]

Thanks for the warm welcome! Thanks for taking the time to help id. I am pretty excited, never having found a piece of quartz like this before, ever in my lifetime in fact. I was just hoping it wasn't broken glass. Thanks again and I will look for a few good books. I spend too much time looking down...and to think I might be missing some good stuff all this time!

 

[MrLee]

I agree with DD, however is that table walnut? Looks a bit like zebra wood. Nice table you got there. If you tell me it's laminate I'm gonna fall over.