need help identifying this rock? crystal?

rockquestion

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Found this in Cheboygan Michigan. I can't figure out what it is. it's about 6LB's and looks like a brain or coral?
anyone shed some light?
Thanks !!

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Looks that you have a worn down mass of chalcedony, the brainy looking portion is called a mammilary or botryoidal formation. Seeing as you found it in Michigan there's a likely hood that it was worn down from a glacial movement. Chalcedony is hard stuff. Neat looking though.
 

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