This rock i found today. Check it out tell me what it is.

[G Freeman]

Found this rock at the bottom of a 10 foot bank about 30 yards from where I been working a quartz vein. Looks like a disco ball with all the crystals shinning back from it. Camera did not do it justice but has a lot or green in it too and in picture you can see the back of it in the mirror that it is sitting in front of. Lot of pebbles like they are glued together.

 

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[BosnMate]

I wish I knew, it's sure an interesting rock. Are you in a mineralized area? You are working a quartz vein for? Gold?

 

[G Freeman]

I wish I knew, it's sure an interesting rock. Are you in a mineralized area? You are working a quartz vein for? Gold?

Yeah BosnMate, but not finding gold but did find a mineral that looked like gold and thought silver was in the rocks too so I sent to assayer and got my report back and the silver looking stuff was Yttrium but no gold. Yes a lot of minerals where I am digging. One of my post shows pictures of the minerals I am working in. Check it out and tell me what you think. Thanks.

 

[Imran520]

It is just look like a stone. It is not precious metal.

 

[Breezie]

It's green Fluorite. I have one very similar that came out of our local tungsten mine. It will glow purplish under a black light.
Neat find
Breezie

 

[G Freeman]

It's green Fluorite. I have one very similar that came out of our local tungsten mine. It will glow purplish under a black light.
Neat find
Breezie

Thank you Breezie, I been trying to get my display light to show the sparkle in the rock but cant get all of it to sparkle at once. Seems like a little light makes it shine more than too much light any suggestions?

 

[Breezie]

Thank you Breezie, I been trying to get my display light to show the sparkle in the rock but cant get all of it to sparkle at once. Seems like a little light makes it shine more than too much light any suggestions?[/QUOTE

You might want to try natural sunlight to see how that looks.


Breezie

 

[G Freeman]

Thank you Breezie, I been trying to get my display light to show the sparkle in the rock but cant get all of it to sparkle at once. Seems like a little light makes it shine more than too much light any suggestions?[/QUOTE

You might want to try natural sunlight to see how that looks.


Breezie

Thanks.

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

get the rock wet...photograph under natural, indirect light...shade of porch..ect...

 

[G Freeman]

get the rock wet...photograph under natural, indirect light...shade of porch..ect...

Thanks Pippin, I will try that. I hate to put a bad picture on here for people to see but sometimes I just cant get a good one.

 

[BosnMate]

Nickle ore is green also.

 

[G Freeman]

It's green Fluorite. I have one very similar that came out of our local tungsten mine. It will glow purplish under a black light.
Neat find
Breezie

Breezie, since I posted this green in the rock I found and I thought it was Fluorite too so I tested the hardness and a knife wont scratch it as Fluorite is a hardness of 4. Do you think it is just green quartz or could it be Olivine.Quartz wont scratch it either.

 

[surf]

I'm voting Feldspar, and perhaps the odd companion. Sparkly, sparkly!

Very gneiss.

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[huntsman53]

To me, it appears to be impurely formed crystallization of Quartz and probably Chlorite! The cluster may have formed in a larger deposit of Quartz and eroded out or was part of an extremely large Geode that broke apart.


Frank

 

[Breezie]

Breezie, since I posted this green in the rock I found and I thought it was Fluorite too so I tested the hardness and a knife wont scratch it as Fluorite is a hardness of 4. Do you think it is just green quartz or could it be Olivine.Quartz wont scratch it either.

I"m not sure, but I have one almost identical to it, and was told by a geologist it was Fluorite. Mine has more pronounced edges on the crystals.


Breezie

 

[G Freeman]

I'm voting Feldspar, and perhaps the odd companion. Sparkly, sparkly!

Very gneiss.

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Surf if I may ask what is the odd companion. Thanks.