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

[chuckufarley]

I would appreciate opinions of anyone knowledgeable who cares to give them. This is a great thread it shouldn't be the responsibility of one man unless he's really OCD

 

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[wilfndgold]

really

Hate to say it but yeah some people dont know what there talking about.

 

[Eu_citzen]

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Nice. That is what you want to see when prospecting!
I can't tell you what it is, a first "feeling" is metamorphic (altered rock) with some quartz, but if you are hoping for gold - crush and pan it.
Otherwise a analysis might be in order.

I do think I also see some crystals in the first picture - could you try and get a close-up?

 

[605dano]

Still looking for gold

Here's some rocks from the hillside I got a couple of days ago. Try to show the rock and then a close-up. The biotite crystal is gold colored. Not sure if that's the color or has a coating on it. Still looking for gold.

 

[Eu_citzen]

Nice Dano. I'd love to see a picture of the outcrop, if you feel ok with that. I've been out way to little this year, trying to catch up some tomorrow.

 

[605dano]

Outcrop

These are some of the exposed veins. Lots of small stringers I've been pulling rocks from. Colors and textures vary. Not sure where any values might be in the quartz or wall rocks or the druzy veins. The quart is fairly clear except the walls and fractures. Noticed a yellowish brown coating sometimes fairly thick on alot of fractures surfaces. Many old producing gold mines in the area. These veins are such an anomaly that it has got me interested. Lots of biotite, sericite, hemitite tourmolines, and other amphoboles mixed in. Any ideas?

 

[hawttdawgg]

Can you tell me what this is?
its seemingly melted around a much more dense rock.
I have had for years- and have never asked anyone to look at it.

 

[Jonezy6227]

Hi everyone I an new here and I love this thread... hope Dust is ok.... lol it took me3days to read all the post.... I am a newbie collector.

 

[Jonezy6227]

Hi everyone I an new here and I love this thread... hope Dust is ok.... lol it took me 3days to read all the post.... I am a newbie collector.

 

[Jonezy6227]

I will post a rock tomarrow. I found it in arizona but it lookes like nothing I can find online or through this thread. Its probubly something dumb like man mead.

 

[MrLee]

I will post a rock tomarrow. I found it in arizona but it lookes like nothing I can find online or through this thread. Its probubly something dumb like man mead.

The only dumb picture or question is the one not posted.

 

[wilfndgold]

Smokey Quartz and?

Is this smokey Quartz? The one with the arrow? The other one I saw in a big Quartz/Felspar boulder?

 

[Jonezy6227]

rock



Thx Mr Lee.

I think this is lava ash lava ash... but I realy don't have a clue

 

[Jonezy6227]

Its gray black and has small rust color on it. Its not magnetic. Its not vary hard

 

[Jonezy6227]

I have about 20 Different kinds of rock. I started a year ago or so and it has became my main hobby ever sense

 

[Eu_citzen]

Hello Dano,
Nice pictures! it is without a doubt a rock which has been subjected to heat and pressure - it's been altered - a metamorphic rock.
I'd follow the vein and map the area as much as possible. Perhaps get a map copy to draw on, this helps to visualize the extent of veins!
Use a compass to draw the direction of the veins to, sometimes there is a preferred orientation.

Also bring the camera I always document things, helps if the memory is slippery!

wilfn,
What you got is likely a pegmatite. Smokey quartz can have brown to slightly blackish colour and is not rare in pegmatites due to radioactive minerals that can occur there.
I think that's what you got there, yes.

Hawt,
Pyrite?

Jonezy,
Looks like you got a sandstone there.

 

[Jonezy6227]

Thank you... is it worth keeping, crushing. Or just throwing it out?

 

[Eu_citzen]

Jonez, I'd keep it as a curiosity or for future reference.

 

[Jonezy6227]

HardRock

This rocks story: I was out in arizona shooting my 270. And my 12 Gage and when I was sitting in my guns this rock shoots back. Lol it was behind my targets and when I missed it bounded the bullet in a different direction.

 

[Jonezy6227]

Could this be a type of jade?