🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Small rock with a strange pattern on it, what is it? Is it natural pattern or man made?

[Muskatnuss]

 

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[Reverend B*IKE*]

Very KOOL find!

 

[Clay Diggins]

It looks like Fordite.

Fordite "rocks" are created over time in industrial paint booths where they build up layers of paint on platforms, skids etc. The paint gets baked hard and is easily mistaken for a rock. Sometimes these are polished and mounted in jewelry. More frequently they are tumbled to smooth the edges and reveal the pattern.

Or it could be an orc egg. I see you included a gray background for scale. It looks about 1/4 inch or maybe 18 foot across? Is it hard? does it smell funny? Will it burn? Does it float? Did you find it in a cave on a mountain or your backyard? Does your dog bark at it? A little more information would help. Until then I'm sticking with Fordite.

 

[Muskatnuss]

It looks like Fordite.

Fordite "rocks" are created over time in industrial paint booths where they build up layers of paint on platforms, skids etc. The paint gets baked hard and is easily mistaken for a rock. Sometimes these are polished and mounted in jewelry. More frequently they are tumbled to smooth the edges and reveal the pattern.

Or it could be an orc egg. I see you included a gray background for scale. It looks about 1/4 inch or maybe 18 foot across? Is it hard? does it smell funny? Will it burn? Does it float? Did you find it in a cave on a mountain or your backyard? Does your dog bark at it? A little more information would help. Until then I'm sticking with Fordite.

Hi, thanks for your answer.
it's about 1 1/2 inches long, and weighs about 22 grams, it's quite hard just like ordinary rocks, it doesn't smell at all, and I just found out that this thing is slightly transparent and looks like it has crystal grains in several spots

 

[Muskatnuss]

Very KOOL find!

Thanks!😀

 

[DownEast_Detecting]

That rock is sweet! you should make a pendant or top of walking stick/cane

 

[Sandog]

Alien cameo, depicting an immature conehead? It really is cool looking. If that's coming out of paint shops on a frequent basis I see a business opportunity.

 

[Older The Better]

There’s a chert around here that can have a pattern that looks similar to fingerprints, I think it’s a flint/chert nodule that’s been in the water a while.

Florence Chert

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[Blackfoot58]

Yes, I believe it is “the fingerprint of God”, so to speak. I think it is a very cool piece. Thanks for showing it

 

[WoodnHead]

With the patterning/banding, the translucence and the surface textures I'm inclined to think it's a variety of banded agate or similar.