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Tenderfoot
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I found it in naragansett ri I think.
 

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I doubt it's calaverite, but it is definitely an intrusive igneous rock with orthoclase feldspar (maybe some plagioclase too), quartz and muscovite mica

if you want to classify it, I'd have to say it's somewhere in the vicinity of a quartz monzonite, maybe granodiorite
 
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Thank you that seems about right..wishful thinking in my part but at least I learned something new thanks again:)
 
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Thank you that seems about right..wishful thinking in my part but at least I learned something new thanks again:)

Welcome to Tnet from Mississippi.
 
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