🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Any ideas on what this white rock might be.

[tamrock]

I bought this at a thrift store. It appears to be a milky white rock partially covered with a hard abrasive grey and black layer mineral of some type. It's mounted on a wood stand, that's similar to other Asian novelty type of stone items one would find in an Asian import shop. It has the weight of what most typical rocks this size would be. All my imputed descriptions into Google are not leading me to any other rocks like it.

 

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[tamrock]

You might try n ask either Vietnamese or Laotian I lived with both and now come to think bout it they have stones like that mounted like that and lots of green jade galore just rembered

Well there is the lady who cuts my hair. She's a war baby from Vietnam. Her mother who she doesn't know was Vietnamese and her father unknown also was an American GI. She was raised by a man and wife, who ran a logging company in Vietnam and she came here to the US in the mid 1970s I think she told me in a ship packed with other refugees. She collects little Asian type novelty pieces. I gave her this small carved ivory piece for her collection. Sadly it wasn't there one time and I asked where'd it go. She was so sorry when she told me she knocked it off the bench and it broke. I'll show this rock to her, because I'm due for a haircut.

 

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I bought this at a thrift store. It appears to be a milky white rock partially covered with a hard abrasive grey and black layer mineral of some type. It's mounted on a wood stand, that's similar to other Asian novelty type of stone items one would find in an Asian import shop. It has the weight of what most typical rocks this size would be. All my imputed descriptions into Google are not leading me to any other rocks like it.

I think Uncle Mac has your answer white jade one thing I definitely know from living with SE Asians is they love their jade I just thought it was all green but now I know why they displayed it like jade it must be jade just white

 

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I didn't think about a hardness test I should have asked the hardness because I could easily drill the gypsum.