What is this?

[supra889289]

Puns this the other day while digging on a site with the backhoe. I have no clue what it is. One pic of the whole thing and one close up of a spot that recently broke off. That spot has some red and orange colors to it my first thought was granite. But I'm thinking it's not. Any clue?

 

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[supra889289]

Ok so I finally got this thing to break open. Wasn't east it was almost solid. But hopefully now someone can help me out with exactly what it is and it did have a hard outer shell that broke away first

 

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[Brian T. Booth]

Ok so I finally got this thing to break open. Wasn't east it was almost solid. But hopefully now someone can help me out with exactly what it is and it did have a hard outer shell that broke away first

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Quartz nodule.

 

[StoneWhisper]

Great pics.. Sort of reminds me a chop liver.. and congrads on cracking it open.. In the second Pic.. note the pocket witht he rounded crystals.. this tells me its not to far off from the Chalcedony family.. aka Thunder Egg but resemebling a sism flatten potato.. . With quartz noduals.. (rounded crystals)

 

[Brian T. Booth]

Great pics.. Sort of reminds me a chop liver.. and congrads on cracking it open.. In the second Pic.. note the pocket witht he rounded crystals.. this tells me its not to far off from the Chalcedony family.. aka Thunder Egg but resemebling a sism flatten potato.. . With quartz noduals.. (rounded crystals)

Just to clarify. Chalcedony, jasper, chert, flint, onyx, agate, chrysoprase, tigers eye, aventurine just name a few, are all varieties of quartz. So this is a quartz nodule. You might have different varieties of quartz within one nodule. But the nodule itself is all quartz.

 

[supra889289]

Thanks I really appreciate it!

 

[Thommy]

That looks a lot like Alibates flint. A nice nodule, which would have been great trading material. Alibates Flint Quarries and Ruins