Help identifying rock

[jtw1313]

Can anyone help identify this rock?

 

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[fuss]

Interesting looking piece, where is is it from? the white mineral looks like either Calcite or Quartz. A scratch test might help clear that up and/or an acid drop test.
The pink colored areas look like the same material as the white in form, but I may not be seeing it clearly enough to tell, could very well be a separate mineral like corundum or something.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Looks like Calcite.

 

[jtw1313]

It doesn’t scratch or bubble from acid

 

[fuss]

So where is from? did you find this or buy it from somewhere?

 

[jtw1313]

I found it in a house clean out

 

[fuss]

Do you happen to have access to a UV light? can you get more of a close up shot of one of the pink areas by chance?

 

[jtw1313]

The pink spots glow under UV Light

But hard to get pic

 

[camichael]

Odd that some of the pink dots are almost the same size.....looks to me that someone applied the pink dots.

 

[jtw1313]

I thought the samething I tried to scratch them off used nail polish remover and they don’t come off. I also can see one inside the rock

 

[DDancer]

To me it looks like milky quartz with a variety of rhodonite, the pink blooms, disbursed thru it.

 

[fuss]

Can you determine the hardness of the dark pink mineral? Its looking more like corundum to me after that last close up image. If Corundum, it would fluoresce a brilliant cherry red under long wave UV. Unfortunately I'm not sure from your UV image what I'm seeing fluoresce, would need a lights on and lights off comparison set to align whats reacting to the UV.

 

[jtw1313]

A couple more pics

There also seems to be a purple dust on it as well
Also what I think is a shell stuck inside maybe that will help with something.
The rock is very hard

 

[blauer]

It doesn?t scratch or bubble from acid

LOL. Everything scratches! Try progressively harder material until it does: fingernail, iron, quartz, corundum, etc.... in that fashion.