Hello all! I am new to this forum and new to rock hunting. My grandfather was a geologist and traveled the world hunting rocks and minerals. I have inherited a good size collection and would like some help identifying some of them. If anyone knows what these are and could let me know it would be great!
Need help identifying rocks in my collection
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Gold cubes I’d guess are pyrite
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quartz, pyrite, large one looks like it might be wolfenite
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Maybe a barite or a selenite
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Thank you all for the insight and the suggestion to post in the Rocks/Gems thread. I remember when I was little going in the basement and barely having room to walk in the 500 ft² space and every rock and mineral was labeled with its name and where it was found. Now that I'm older I wish we kept the identification of these items and never donated the other 90% of his collection.
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