New help with this NorCalifornia Find

[Akafai]

Hello thanks for the help.

 

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[AU_Solitude]

Looks like a hunk of quartz with some darker material running through it, sulfates in the one spot.

 

[Akafai]

what do you think of these?

 

[AU_Solitude]

what do you think of these? View attachment 1281826View attachment 1281827

Chunks of serpentine, the one has significant iron staining.

 

[Akafai]

Chunks of serpentine, the one has significant iron staining.

I have checked the hardness and they are not marked my a Knife. I read that serpentine is soft

 

[AU_Solitude]

I have checked the hardness and they are not marked my a Knife. I read that serpentine is soft

The only one I cant be certain on is the sample at 9' o clock in your first photo, everything else there is serpentine.

 

[Akafai]

Thank you so much. Looking at some of the post and seeing jade is being found up north I just needed to make sure.

 

[tamrock]

Could be the California greenstone know to be associated with gold bearing rock California Gold vein formation, Rich gold quartz ore

 

[ice9]

The first piece looks like "unakite", which is green epidote in red feldspar or granite. If so, it will polish very nicely.