Can anyone IDENTIFY THIS PLEASE?

[hurt.ronnie]

Can anyone tell me what this may be? It does not react to a magnet and is not very light nor heavy. It has many glass like chips embedded in it but are even with the surface.

 

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[EccentricInTexas]

Some kind of volcanic stone or glass perhaps?

 

[Tejaas]

I would be happy to tell you what you have...

But i am going to need to know where you found/bought it so that i may be able to determine if it is basaltic or rhyolitic.

State, if in the US - country if elsewhere is plenty good enough.

~Tejaas~

 

[hurt.ronnie]

I found this in a collection of a lot of things but do not know were the owner got it. It also shines like a prism or rainbow affect also.

 

[Tejaas]

Assuming you are in the US, that is a fine example of Amerikanite... Which is a terrestrial form of obsidian.

They are a rhyolitic glass.

Any chance you are in California?

~Tejaas~

 

[hurt.ronnie]

I am in W.V. USA but the people who owned it the father was in the military

 

[hurt.ronnie]

Thank you very much do they have any value at all?

 

[Tejaas]

Millions of years old, I'd call that priceless.

If you must assign a dollar amount, you -might- get a few dollars for it...?


~Tejaas~

 

[kcm]

Nice ID Tejaas!

 

[Mud Hut]

..and here I thought it was a petrified raisin