Large quartz with grey metallic and gold mineral.

[redadom]

So I came walking up town and this old guy trying to carry this backpack coming back from the river asked me to carry this thing up for him to the Top of town. So being that kimd of person lol Carried this super heavy thing up there for him. Dang it is heavy even that lavarock meteor looking thing. Anyone able to see what it could be from the attached photos?

 

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[kcm]

So between the pics, there are 2 rocks, correct?

Been working on the truck today, saying a few too many 4-letter words(!!), so my mind is too tired to turn the images around and sort these pics out myself. Could you offer some ID help please?

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[redadom]

Yeah two rocks. One is a quartz consistancy. The other reminds me of some sort of Red Lava Meteor with gold sprinkles throughout it.

 

[redadom]

The quartz one has a greyish silverish metal in it with what seems to be gold.

 

[smokeythecat]

I can't tell. Could be gold, here's a quick test. Break off a tiny piece of the yellow metal. Put it in a confined area. Smack it with a hammer. If it flattens, it's gold, if shatters pyrite or something like arsenoprite, which is pyrite and arsenic.

 

[redadom]

Thank you for the reply Smokey. I currently don't have this thing in my possession. The guy who found it showed up with guns and a truck and took off. He probably will not get ahold of me for carrying it up that hill. But hey it was a nice experience and I got to carry something heavy as **** for like 2 hours. Worse comes to worse I could have pictures to something really rare.

 

[smokeythecat]

If it's that heavy, it's probably an ore mineral.

 

[smokeythecat]

BTW, what state? Geology of the area makes all the difference in the world.

 

[redadom]

Oregon.

 

[redadom]

On the Rogue River.

 

[huntsman53]

I can't tell much about the Quartz rock other than it appears to have undergone some igneous and metamorphic transformation and possibly even sedimentary as well. It probably formed in a transition zone or a zone where material from all three collided. Besides Quartz, I see Black Tourmaline and Limestone but there appears to be more. The piece that looks sort of like a sponge, may be some type of Calcite precipitated into a zone where Gold had weathered out of it's host rock and then the piece hardened. I could be wrong but the rock does appear to have Gold in and on it!


Frank

 

[redadom]

Here is a few pictures of the smaller pieces that this guy gave me. I've got these.

 

[redadom]

Same pieces wet.

 

[redadom]

A couple interesting small silverish pieces with a black core

 

[austin]

Quartz conglomerate. Gold? Maybe a little. The lava contains pyrite crystals not gold. Square crystalline structure. Guess he thought he hit the motherload, but oh well, such is life...