Minerals?

[Debbie61]

Hi, I was wondering if anybody would know what mineral this is. It bounces around on my detector, so not sure what it's reading. It does not appear to be Mica, from what I've read.

 

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[Indian Steve]

The side view looks like mica but the first picture looks like pyrite. Is it gold colored?

 

[Debbie61]

No, most of the pieces are black, dark dark green black with alot of shiny speckles. Sorry the pictures are not very good. Don't know how to focus it.

 

[Ant]

On my cell it looks like schist, hemolite (iron stone) and could be some basalt in there. Does the detector bong around on it?

 

[Debbie61]

Yes my detector usually jumps from nickel to dime. I will have to look into schist, hemolite. Would you know if there are actually crystals in these pieces? And do you know if there is a section on the forum that deals with just minerals? I've only seen things about gold? Thanks for your response.

 

[Ant]

Yes some specimens have crystals. I think you have 2 or all of these minerals in those specimens, that would make it a mineral conglomerate of schist, hematite and basalt, see links:

http://https://images.search.yahoo....+hematite+and+basalt&fr=yfp-t-901&fr2=piv-web
mineral conglomerate schist, hematite and basalt - Google Search

Schist is not detectable:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/sear...p-images.search.yahoo.com&ei=UTF-8&n=60&x=wrt

Hematite (iron- stone) is detectable:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/sear...p-t-901&p=hematite&fr2=sp-qrw-corr-top&norw=1


Basalt is also detectable:

hematite - Yahoo Image Search Results