This guys wild any help with identification would be awesome.

[lkMI.9]

 

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[vpnavy]

Are you absolutely sure that puppy is a rock? Looks like a melted down batman toy.

 

[bevo]

It looks like a bunch of rocks in caliche.

 

[surf]

Hi'ya lkMI.9,

Welcome to TNet, and bravo on some wonderful photos. That is a wild one! Does it fluoresce? Please tell the backstory.

 

[lkMI.9]

I found it in a gravel pit in north west Michigan just outside traverse city definitely a rock of some sort a little heavy for its size and the colors are awesome thought it could possibly be some sort of agate but doesn't really resemble any type I've ever seen.

 

[Alex Burke]

"Confusionite"?

 

[Turkısh Man]

İt's a RHODONİTE, Silicated Manganese ore, ( MnSi03 ), hardnes 5.5-6
Good for ornaments

 

[rickn1]

Google " detroit agate / fordite " My guess considering the area you are in.

 

[lkMI.9]

It's definitely not fordite and I don't think it's rhodonite because there isn't any pink in it.

 

[woof!]

I believe it's jasper-- with that much color in it, probably formed in an ore body.

I've seen jasper pretty much like that, but with less small-scale complexity than your specimen.


--Dave J.

 

[Eu_citzen]

I think Dave nailed it; Jasper with either magnetite or hematite. I've seen those myself, to.

 

[lkMI.9]

Awesome thanks a lot guys is jasper common in the north west Michigan area?

 

[wheelerite]

looks like brecciated jasper. we have some similar in oregon. Beautiful agate!

 

[TeamNugget]

No clue but that looks absolutely friggin awesome. Wanna sell it?

 

[Brian T. Booth]

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This is definitely microcrystalline quartz var. jasper. Wheelerite hit the nail on the head, it's brecciated jasper. The matrix that's holding the pieces of brecciated jasper together is most likely hematite. Great find.

 

[knarf44]

I don't know stink about such things but after googling "brecciated jasper" and viewing a few million images, well maybe a few less, I personally would just polish it as is, and leave it at that. I didn't see anything that remotely resembled it in the configuration yours is shown.

Anything pictured was either cut and made into jewelry or looked like broken rock. Yours has a special unique look to it in it's natural state.

An unsolicited opinion from the uninformed. Thanks for sharing.

Take care.

 

[b7seas]

Kinda curious as to size Are we looking at a stone, a rock or a boulder

Bob

 

[bmartin0693]

I believe it's jasper conglomerate. Conglomerates can have slightly tumbled stones concreted together. It was probably broken/eroded off of a larger source. There may be more around too. Nice find!