Need rock ID.

[southernbell]

Slow day some muscovite was looking for quartz will this lead to colored gems

 

[DDancer]

Cant really tell what your holding. Are you finding any crystals where your digging?

 

[Eu_citzen]

Could be stained quartz IMO.

 

[southernbell]

My area we find green quartz, smoky,clear and yellow found a few of each lotsa stuff unsure of we have lot of mica and musavite really interesting stuff just wish I could identify everthing better
Thanks for reply DDancer

 

[DDancer]

No worries. It sounds like your in an area with a pretty rich mineral composition. Based on that what your holding looks like massive quartz with a lot of iron rich material in it. When I first saw the picture I figured the bits might have come from a mine dump. I've seen a lot of similar material on old dumps. Thru me that you were looking for mica minerals while showing the specimine. A closer picture would help but I suspect its just what I've said. Better mica specimines like what your looking for are easier pickings if you can find granite's in the area as well.

 

[southernbell]

They are putting in2 more lanes of us58 about 2 miles up from my house lotsa of dirt being exposed might give an idea whats through here we've always found quartz we just don't plow anymore harder to find a vien Thanks for the reply

 

[DDancer]

Hehh! Keep an eye on the road cut. Always nice to have the Highway department do the heavy work for ya. Cant say how many times I've pulled over to speck a cut. Sometimes you get lucky.

 

[woof!]

Roadside cuts are why they put brakes and brakelights on cars.

 

[rock]

It looks like quartz with quartzite mixed in to me.