Themed thread: Rare/unique artifact materials from your area.

[LandSeig]

Post your points/artifacts that are materials unique to your area. All pictures welcome and please add a description explaining material as well. For instance one of my favorite local is petrified wood or petrified palm, it comes in a lot of different colors locally. I have found chalky white with jet black interior, black/red, and light blue palm wood. Some knaps better than others.

One I found:

One I knapped:

 

[newnan man]

Florida Coral

 

[CreekSide]

Recent one posted but I have some others to post later.
Mustard Chert

 

[LandSeig]

Florida Coral

Is the coral filled with silica or something else?

 

[CreekSide]

Ridge and Valley chert
Comes in many colors

 

[CreekSide]

Quartzite

 

[CreekSide]

Heat treated quartz

 

[CreekSide]

Mica Schist
Only 5 known to exist in my county. This one makes 6. Missing about an inch (Gorget)

 

[CreekSide]

Jasper
I don’t find much of this

 

[CreekSide]

Knox Chert Variant

 

[GDub62]

Mica Schist
Only 5 known to exist in my county. This one makes 6. Missing about an inch (Gorget)

Awesome

 

[GDub62]

Knox Chert Variant

Awesome again

 

[Rockdog]

Mica Schist
Only 5 known to exist in my county. This one makes 6. Missing about an inch (Gorget)

Veey cool!

 

[Rockdog]

Knox Chert Variant

Wow. That is awsome.

 

[smokeythecat]

Grey rhyolite, white quartz, and sometimes a greenstone. I don't have any pics. A few pieces of black Delaware River jasper come in and a tiny tiny bit of Ohio flint.

 

[CreekSide]

Wow. That is awsome.

I’ve got a few black and white

 

[newnan man]

Is the coral filled with silica or something else?

Silica. In some you can see the fossilized polyps.

 

[newnan man]

Florida Chalcedony. Another type of agatized coral. This is a rare color for coral.

 

[LandSeig]

Man all of these look great!

 

[CreekSide]

Sanora chert