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BentFunky · Jul 7, 2020

Found this rock in a shallow creek bed. Lots of large, heavy iron oxide baring rocks with some disseminated sulfides. Interesting enough area to explore but nothing special.

Might be other rocks like this, but this is the first one that I’ve found. Thought it might be have sulfides after break it open, so laid it over vent of my melting furnace while it was running. Temp there is somewhere around 2000F. Don’t know if you can tell, but had some metal melting in rock at that temp.

First thought was that metal was lead, but melting point of metal in rock is way too high. Then thought maybe nickel, but this metal is not ferromagnetic. Only other thought was silver. Some parts of melted rock had coppery, gold tint.

What is it? Any educated guesses?

BentFunky · Jul 9, 2020

BentFunky said:
Found this rock in a shallow creek bed. Lots of large, heavy iron oxide baring rocks with some disseminated sulfides. Interesting enough area to explore but nothing special.

Might be other rocks like this, but this is the first one that I’ve found. Thought it might be have sulfides after break it open, so laid it over vent of my melting furnace while it was running. Temp there is somewhere around 2000F. Don’t know if you can tell, but had some metal melting in rock at that temp.

First thought was that metal was lead, but melting point of metal in rock is way too high. Then thought maybe nickel, but this metal is not ferromagnetic. Only other thought was silver. Some parts of melted rock had coppery, gold tint.

What is it? Any educated guesses?

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Was able to id. Mostly, galena.

BrittanyLeighann · Jul 10, 2020

Towerchick · Jul 12, 2020

Can someone help me with figuring out what this is?

Towerchick · Jul 12, 2020

Apologies for three of the same picture...I didn't realize I did that until after I posted!

Jonathan15147 · Jul 12, 2020

Hi everyone...this is my first time posting here. I recently acquired a large rock from a friend I’ve had my eye on for some time. I can not identify what type of rock/mineral/gemstone it is exactly. It is quite heavy and measures 14 inches by 5 inches. It looks mostly green blue like amazonite but also has some whiteish quartzlite qualities to it. It is opaque and has cleavage lines to some degree. Can you help me narrow it down? I have no idea the exact origin of it. I am attaching several pictures. Any help is appreciated.
Jonathan

J7801 · Jul 13, 2020

Hey all,

Any idea what this might be? I just found it on the ground in Izmir, Turkey a few years ago and thought it looked cool.

Qtpibrina · Jul 14, 2020

any Ideas

tilemom · Jul 14, 2020

3 mystery rocks

Dustedyou said:
Hey guys if you have any rocks you want identified,, or are having a problem with the composition, Post it with questions, and a brief summary of where you got it..I'm down to help!

And I love to play Stump the Chump!

Thanks for wanting to help. I am new to this forum. I found these three rocks on a Lake Michigan beach in northern Leelanau County. Sorry, I am having trouble uploading the photos. I have four copies of the same one and don't know how to remove. And they are out of order. Bear with me, this is different from what I am used to.
First (and last pix) stone is waxy and slightly bluish with pitted areas. Second has a flattened side that is glassy and purplish pink. The third is mostly warm grey.It is swirly and crystallized with lots of grid-like fossil insets.
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Greek_Hunter · Jul 14, 2020

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Found on the trail of a very old treasure hunt in a cave that we emptied. There's a loud beautiful noise (like church bells) that comes from what you see when hit correctly. We're pretty sure it's an ancient tomb around 1500BC. Of course the site is abroad. Picture does no justice to the material! There's a great shine to it with majestic colors in sunlight.

perssonanna392 · Jul 15, 2020

So many cool rocks! WOW

K9JWS · Jul 22, 2020

Rock type?

Dustedyou said:
Hey guys if you have any rocks you want identified,, or are having a problem with the composition, Post it with questions, and a brief summary of where you got it..I'm down to help!

And I love to play Stump the Chump!

Would like to know what this is. It's heavy and smooth. Thank you

MathiasContactGroup · Aug 3, 2020

New to this culture, would like help with identifying anything. I don't know anything. Found on Temecula CALIFORNIA
7LBS. VERY SHINY CLOSE UP

JM2855 · Aug 6, 2020

Weather worn breccia or a conglomerate with large clasts of rock embedded. You see these near old fault zones. Usually if they have rounded rocks embedded it would be more of a conglomerate that could be formed when ancient floods washed silt over smaller pebbles and rocks then hardended into conglomeration. Sharper rocks embedded are typically caused by friction or sudden movement on a fault that break or blow up rock, which then becomes embedded as chunkcs (clasts) in the other rock. Host rock may be rhyolite?