🔎 UNIDENTIFIED New York Leverite?

[muddyrover]

Found this sitting in a crack in bedrock while fishing a creek in upstate New York.

I’m thinking blue calcite? Maybe a stalagmite from how the bottom looks? Also the bottom looks kind of like coral to me.

Has no affect on metal detector, magnet, or Geiger counter….

 

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[newnan man]

Nice, not coral though.

 

[unclemac]

looks like slag glass..... but some of those pix look like boulder opal too... hard to say, I wouldn't have leaverited it....

 

[muddyrover]

looks like slag glass..... but some of those pix look like boulder opal too... hard to say, I wouldn't have leaverited it....

I thought slag glass or trinitite… that’s why I put the Geiger counter on it.

It seems like the bottom has fossils.

It’s not translucent with a flashlight, so I would guess not calcite now. The top seems glass-like. Maybe it is slag glass or glass from a fire.

 

[unclemac]

i like it

 

[Blak bart]

Looks like a keeper no matter what it turns out to be...to beautiful to leverite there !!

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

I’d struggle to keep myself from cutting that dude. Sure would like to see the inside of thatun

 

[DWerk]

Appears to be slag from an old smelter... Check the history of the area...

 

[redrockn34]

Parts look like gypsum is present, definitely indicating it’s a sedimentary stone similar to travertine. I would guess marble in this case. Put some HCL on it and watch it fizz to confirm presence of calcium.

 

[muddyrover]

A large cave network is part of a tributary upstream with underground boat rides.

No smelting history around here.

Hurricane Irene moved lots of dirt and rock in 2011. Complete houses were washed downstream .

I’ll see if we have anything made up of HCl.

 

[muddyrover]

It didn't seem to react to 9.5% HCl in lysol toilet bowl rust and lime cleaner.

 

[redrockn34]

It didn't seem to react to 9.5% HCl in lysol toilet bowl rust and lime cleaner.

If it doesn’t react to hydrochloric acid (HCL) then it doesn’t have calcium (at least at the surface) present. I don’t have any other ideas. Sorry.

 

[BoulderTroll]

My best guess would be an agate. It looks like the host rock was broken up (brecciated) and filled in with hydrothermal fluids that solidified into that beautiful rock. The back side doesn't look like fossils to me, but it does look like some softer parts of the rock were eroded out. Just based on the blocky shape of the holes in it.

This is an Ellensburg blue agate from our area. Your specimen made me think of these.

Great find!!

 

[redrockn34]

Really cool!

 

[Timbermaster]

I’m 62% sure that is slag glass.