Any ideas? Translucent all over one Crystal in all pics

[MountOlymp]

Any ideas of this? Wood crystal,?

 

[crashbandicoot]

Yoy may be getting tired of me saying this,but that,s pretty,I like pretty rocks and you sure show some pretty rocks.I don,t know what you call that but I recall seeing something like that when I was a kid. In railroad ballast before they started using this danged crushed blue rock, I believe it,s crushed granite. No character,one rock looks like another.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

It is a sedimentary rock, it could be sandstone.

 

[MountOlymp]

It is a sedimentary rock, it could be sandstone.

Even if it has facets?

 

[MountOlymp]

Yoy may be getting tired of me saying this,but that,s pretty,I like pretty rocks and you sure show some pretty rocks.I don,t know what you call that but I recall seeing something like that when I was a kid. In railroad ballast before they started using this danged crushed blue rock, I believe it,s crushed granite. No character,one rock looks like another.

I try my best, granite how? And would it be all over translucent over half inch deep? Never saw translucent granite

 

[Georgivs]

Details of where you found it would be helpful. I think it looks like a piece of gneiss that's spent some time in a primordial river or lake. If gneiss doesn't have too much mica and has enough quartz it can be polished like that.

 

[crashbandicoot]

I try my best, granite how? And would it be all over translucent over half inch deep? Never saw translucent granite

No,I meant the rock the railroad uses for ballast now,not your rock.Sorry about that.Lost in translation!!

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Even if it has facets?

Sand is a silica which is basically glass so it would have shine to it and it does look polished by maybe water or some other process or possibly a spray varnish on it to bring out the wet shine look.

 

[islamoradamark]

I like shinny stuff

 

[crashbandicoot]

I like shinny stuff

Me too!

 

[MountOlymp]

Me too!

Me three

 

[MountOlymp]

Details of where you found it would be helpful. I think it looks like a piece of gneiss that's spent some time in a primordial river or lake. If gneiss doesn't have too much mica and has enough quartz it can be polished like that.

With hand tool and paper?

 

[MountOlymp]

Details of where you found it would be helpful. I think it looks like a piece of gneiss that's spent some time in a primordial river or lake. If gneiss doesn't have too much mica and has enough quartz it can be polished like that.

It was found in a river that i find many wood fossils so im being cautious cause it could be wood also