🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Potentially Agate?

[Axel's Nature's Best]

The pattern and colour makes me think some kind of Agate. Could someone help me with confirming whether it is an Agate or not and possibly give any other guesses if it isn't? Thank you!

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Axel's Nature's best said:
> Could someone help me with confirming whether it is an Agate or not and possibly give any other guesses if it isn't?

Basically, that rock is a piece of a Chert Nodule. Chert, Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper, & etc., are versions of cryptocrystalline quartz. Agate is one of those, but your rock is not showing much color-banding in it, so it can't be called an Agate. Looks like a Chert, Chalcedony, and Carnelian blend. Beautiful to this old agate-hunter, BTW.

 

[gunsil]

Definitely chalcedony, and I'd call it agate. A stone does certainly not need to be banded to be classified as agate. Carnelian is agate and there are many plume and moss agates that do not have banding.

 

[GlowingArtist]

It kind if looks like stone cookware with a glass inlay to me. Perhaps mid to late 1800's?

 

[Red-Coat]

It kind if looks like stone cookware with a glass inlay to me. Perhaps mid to late 1800's?

What? it's very obviously geological in origin. Look at the thickness of it for one thing! It's a cryptocrystalline quartz nodule as already stated.