what is this? found it in minneapolis mn near some train tracks

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i was riding my bike along the greenway in mpls when i caught a sparkle out of the corner of eye
i stopped my bike and saw the Drusy quarts from this stone popping out of the soil
i thought it would pop out easily so i pulled didn't budge.
dug it out with another rock and chucked it in my bag went home rinsed it off and here it is.
 

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you said it yourself.. Quartz. :icon_thumleft:
 

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Oh, that is beautiful! I found something like that in a stream once, but yours dwarfs mine. Now I know what its called-Thanks! Browsing Google Image Search for Drusy quartz doesn't have a single image that compares to how "alive" your rock looks. It could be a crystallized internal organ of some space alien that crash landed here a billion years ago.

Time to dig out the rock collection.
 

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as they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. i was thinking that is one ugly rock.
 

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This looks more like chalcedony agate to me. This type of showing is typically found where you would expect geodes. You see a lot of this in the Arizona geode fields around Camp Verde. Just my thoughts

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