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How hard is it? Will it scratch a piece of window glass? Will it scratch a piece of quartz?
I can't tell from the picture if it has any crystal structure. Can you tell how many sides it has?
 

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Looks like it went trough a tumbler, may not be much left to resemble any crystal.
I'd also be thinking along the lines of quartz.
 

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It does scratch glass and nothing crumbling off it. Seems to be very hard and yes it does have a yellow tint to it. What other test can I do at home to help find out what it is
 

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Took a small metal file to it and nothing happened to it, I was surprised because you can see some fractures but it held together I can also see a little black speck of something inside it other than that & the fractures it's clear.
Sorry about the first post I was having trouble figuring it out!
 

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Quartz will scratch glass. Now you need to find out if it will scratch a piece of quartz. Topaz will scratch quartz. I see vertical lines in the picture. Topaz can have vertical striations, but they could also be scratches.
I am not sure why anyone would try to make a piece of jewelry out of such a small scrap of quartz.
I am leaning towards topaz as well.
 

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Actually Baja I see it quite often that small tumbled "scrap" stones are put into jewellery, quite popular right now.
So don't dismiss quartz just because of that. :)
 

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You also have to taken into consideration what was found with it, & that was a turquoise stone that was a little bigger than this one. What else is found with or around turquoise that might look like this? Thinking it might be someones find or buy on a trip or vacation!
 

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2012-04-09_14-03-33_498.jpg2012-04-09_14-04-03_60.jpg2012-04-09_14-04-21_856.jpg2012-04-09_14-05-01_881.jpgThis is another rock I found on the ground and thought it looked cool. Is it quartz and can I use that to test the other?
 

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True, Quartz.. But again I still see hints of yellow. Just means it's a very pale citrine (which is part of the quartz family) with the crystal point structure.. and pale is good in my book.. anything above an orange or very dark orange has been heat treated. You finding just out in the open is a good thing.. but without a clear definition of any single or multiple points.

I think once you get a handful of different rocks and you've figured out what most of them are. Your doing well. Always trust you own common cense when trying to identify the stones. I'm this isn't rocket science.. and nothing can be spot on unless you have it sent out for testing and most of the time, if it looks like something you know, it probably is. I mean, I'm not going to haggle over a rock which looks like a citrine but it turns out to be something else.
 

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That looks like a nice piece of clear quartz. If you can scratch that with the first stone then it a topaz.
Also, to the gem cutters here, is there enough of a stone to facet, or is it too busted up?
 

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