Please help identify, so far has stummped geologist from university.

[PattyGailG.]

 

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[HuntH2002]

Welcome to the Forum from Texas

Your rock looks like Unakite imo. v

"This metamorphic rock is formed when granite is altered by hydrothermal activity. Unakite--also referred to as epidote/epidotized granite--blends green epidote, pink orthoclase feldspar and clear quartz and can contain trace amounts of other materials such as magnetite or zircon."

Geology.com - Unakite

 

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[NJearthman]

Leave Her Right Where You Found IT!🤓

 

[Clay Diggins]

It looks exactly like a high grade copper ore cut by a diamond lapidary saw. The dark reddish brown almost black color and the metallic look of the cut areas also the green oxidation products on the surface are typical of many copper ore deposits.

Looks can be deceiving but that's all we have to go by.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

With the green on it I would think some copper is in it along with some Iron or galena and rose quartz it came from a highly mineralized area probably from a tailings pile at a gold mine it also looks like maybe some sulphur in it also. IMO I have found some beautiful turquoise at a gold mine in the tailings piles as it wasn't what they were after but your specimen would say they were on the trail of gold because the minerals run together.

 

[traveller777]

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Sorry I cannot help you but looks like minerals associated with copper. If you find out please post the answer. Thank you.

 

[stoneshirt]

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It's leaverright.

 

[crashbandicoot]

You all suck.

Just ignore stoneshirt,he has a long history of insulting posts.rarely offers anything of value.The rest of the guys are just comedians,they didn,t mean any harm.

 

[PattyGailG.]

LOL. He also doesn't share what it is. I have some specimens you can buy that I will tell you nothing about.

Not helpful. Please be helpful with any replies. Thanks.

 

[blauer]

Nunnaurbusinessite.

 

[PattyGailG.]

Ummm. Leave er' right there.(where you found it)

You all suck.

 

[PattyGailG.]

Not Unakite, but maybe a slag material.

At first I thought slag, but slag cannot contain pink crystals and odd veining can it?

 

[PattyGailG.]

With the green on it I would think some copper is in it along with some Iron or galena and rose quartz it came from a highly mineralized area probably from a tailings pile at a gold mine it also looks like maybe some sulphur in it also. IMO I have found some beautiful turquoise at a gold mine in the tailings piles as it wasn't what they were after but your specimen would say they were on the trail of gold because the minerals run together.

Thank you, so far you're assessment seams to be the most plausible.

 

[PattyGailG.]

The place it was collected is unknown. I bought it from a rockhound friend who doesn't share his hunting locations.

 

[PattyGailG.]

 

[PattyGailG.]

 

[PattyGailG.]

Non magnetic metallic rock with pink crystals embedded throughout.

 

[PattyGailG.]

 

[fuss]

Not Unakite, but maybe a slag material.