✅ SOLVED Found a rooock, broke it open, broke it open just last night...

[Wishbone]

As far as it's location, BC Canada. I found it in a creek, behind a bigger rock. I kept it because of the staining (what is that?). I tried to show all angles. It looked like a line, vein or crack on one side of it. When I hit the rock with a hammer (about medium force), it split along the line. You can't see it in the pic, but there is microscopic shiny little silvery things, on the outside and inside of it.
What story does it tell (if any)?
Thanks for you help!

 

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[jewelerguy]

looks like a piece of granite to me

 

[Wishbone]

I think there is granite in that area jewelryguy, thank you. Can you break granite with a hammer? Or was it because mine had a fault in it. Do you know why it's stained.
And what about the silver sparklies in it, does pyrite come in silver?

 

[kuger]

yep granite and can easily be broke with a hammer,the stains are likely iron oxides(pyrites)

 

[jewelerguy]

And what about the silver sparklies in it

granite usually contains mica and quartz, either of which will sparkle when the light catches the right angle

 

[Wishbone]

Thanks again jewelryguy! Someone else looked at my rock and said the same thing you did (very old granite, with mica). I don't know why he thought the granite is old? So as far as gold goes, my rock tells no tales.
Thanks again for you time.

 

[kuger]

granite actually decomposes.....and no,I have never ever heard as it being a host to gold

 

[huntsman53]

The rock appears to me to be a form of Mica Schist.


Frank

 

[lab rat]

Granite- the 'little silvery things' are probably mica. Staining comes from decomposition of iron minerals - magnetite, for example.

 

[Wishbone]

You people are AWESOME, I'll never look at rocks, like rocks, again! Each tells it's own story,
Take care,

 

[calisdad]

Get a hot stone massage and you will truly never look at rocks the same again.