🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Blue/purple stone needing identification

[JayG83]

Discovered in Sweetwater, TX

 

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[Fat]

… it looks like a flint/chert nodule. Edwards is my guess. Its the stuff the Indians made all there tools, arrowheads knives and scrapers from…

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

It's what Fat said... a flint/chert nodule. (Flint is a variety of "unweathered" chert.) The exterior of your nodule is what geologists and rock-hounds call weathered, meaning, exposed to air and rainwater or groundwater, etc, for hundreds or thousands of years. To see more like it, google-search "Chert Nodule" and "Flint Nodule."

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Looks like a chert nodule, chert comes in many different colors too.

 

[Older The Better]

Yep but I’d bet money it’s been in a fire that’s what causes all those little cups I believe you’ve circled a crinoid or other remnant of a sea creature

 

[flinthunter]

I agree that it could have been in a fire. The surface craters look like fire pops and the fire could have heat treated some of the surface to a bluish color.

 

[crashbandicoot]

COOL!

 

[GoldieLocks]

Bone?

 

[UnderMiner]

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