Got A Rock you Want Identified? Post it here! gimme a good picture or 3 or 4!

[TerryC]

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Greetings! My son is hoping for some help identifying this rock and what glows on it under the black light. Any help would be much appreciated!

The purple MIGHT be azurite. But not sure. ╦╦Ç

 

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[TerryC]

I just went to geology.com and they have a very similar picture.... Hardystonite. ╦╦Ç

 

[Cheaperrooter]

White quartz?



Fantastic thread!!! Very excited as I was already a member i'm assuming this is just a white quartz. What makes it so bizarre is I live in the mountains of western North Carolina and I have nothing but Boulder after Boulder after rock after rock. Some the size of a car. They are all dark colors. This thing stands out from a mile away and I don't know where it came from as it doesn't match anything else in the creek. Anything special about it? I have more pics if needed but I doubt it Thanks!!

Ps:Hard to tell but it's the size of a football.

 

[Shaggyostrich]

i think it is a petrified .. sumthing. Maybe an egg lol

 

[what]

Fantastic thread!!! Very excited as I was already a member i'm assuming this is just a white quartz. What makes it so bizarre is I live in the mountains of western North Carolina and I have nothing but Boulder after Boulder after rock after rock. Some the size of a car. They are all dark colors. This thing stands out from a mile away and I don't know where it came from as it doesn't match anything else in the creek. Anything special about it? I have more pics if needed but I doubt it Thanks!!

Ps:Hard to tell but it's the size of a football.

Looks like a chunk of white quartz to me as well, probably what used to be a chunk of an intrusive quartz vein. Not sure what the setting you found that in is like but if it is in a creek the first place to start looking is upstream. Does not look to be anything special about it besides it being unique to your location.

i think it is a petrified .. sumthing. Maybe an egg lol

Sorry but that just looks like some kind of cryptocrystalline/microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony/agate/etc) and not like anything that is petrified. Still an interesting formation though.

 

[Eu_citzen]

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Greetings! My son is hoping for some help identifying this rock and what glows on it under the black light. Any help would be much appreciated!

Not sure, but maybe Baryte would be worth checking out?

 

[Shaggyostrich]

Looks like a chunk of white quartz to me as well, probably what used to be a chunk of an intrusive quartz vein. Not sure what the setting you found that in is like but if it is in a creek the first place to start looking is upstream. Does not look to be anything special about it besides it being unique to your location.



Sorry but that just looks like some kind of cryptocrystalline/microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony/agate/etc) and not like anything that is petrified. Still an interesting formation though.

Definitely interesting i cant find anything else that looks like it online

 

[oidium45]

Not sure, but maybe Baryte would be worth checking out?

Any chance you could determine if it was radioactive?

 

[Cheaperrooter]

Looks like a chunk of white quartz to me as well, probably what used to be a chunk of an intrusive quartz vein. Not sure what the setting you found that in is like but if it is in a creek the first place to start looking is upstream. Does not look to be anything special about it besides it being unique to your location.


Thanks for your time (:-)

 

[oidium45]

Heh?

 

[oidium45]

Looks like a chunk of white quartz to me as well, probably what used to be a chunk of an intrusive quartz vein. Not sure what the setting you found that in is like but if it is in a creek the first place to start looking is upstream. Does not look to be anything special about it besides it being unique to your location.


Thanks for your time (:-)

Hey? It was worth repeating...

 

[Petenwell8]

It’s beautiful, but I don’t know what it is

I’m new to this and haven’t a clue as to what kind of rock this is. Thanks much!

 

[rockhound82]

Some sort of agate? Or no? What is it

Found this in Nevada walking along a river. No clue what it is.

Diamond cutting wheel for dremel cuts it but not easily.. And unfortunately that's all the info I have.

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Additional info: it breaks off very sharp could probably cut very easily but don't wanna test that out on me hehe.

 

[oidium45]

Agate?

 

[Eu_citzen]

Any chance you could determine if it was radioactive?

Not with certainty from a forum post. Doubt it's radioactive.

 

[Eu_citzen]

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[Eu_citzen]

Found this in Nevada walking along a river. No clue what it is. View attachment 1543639View attachment 1543640View attachment 1543641

Diamond cutting wheel for dremel cuts it but not easily.. And unfortunately that's all the info I have.

*edit*
Additional info: it breaks off very sharp could probably cut very easily but don't wanna test that out on me hehe.

Chalcedony.

 

[WannaDig3687]

I found this down hill from what was reportedly a slaughter house at one time. Is there any chance it could have been a piece of a knife sharpening stone?

 

[Salinabrown]

Please help me with this rock. What is it and what's in it.

Found this rock under a old tree stump we pulled out.

 

[Smokehouse_83]

Stuff I found on the Side of the road today.