Please help identify this rock. Serpentine ?

[bpolitzer]

I bought this at a garage sale, and don't know where it was collected. It weighs 12.7 pounds and is fairly soft (scatches with a metal object).

 

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[CaptEsteban]

Rutilated Quartz

 

[How Lucky]

I'd say its a veined soapstone. Too soft for quartz.

 

[galenrog]

Visually, it has some characteristics of both serpentine and soapstone. It does not, however, have any visual characteristics of rutilated quartz.

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[se3388]

I'll go along with Lucky on this one.

Steve........

 

[CaptEsteban]

I stand corrected, thanks.