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Recent content by Johnho

  1. J

    Anyone know what kinda rock this os ?

    Well, that's a tough one. I google light weight black minerals and all I could come up quickly with is a rock called Jet. It's a very dense form of lignite or coal. See if a knife easily scratches it. Jet is very soft and should scratch easily. I hate these tough ones. :)
  2. J

    What's this weird looking rock??

    Looks like a piece of agate. If you google "Agate formation" you will see the way it forms, pretty much as Geologyhound says.
  3. J

    Help with identification

    I agree with Geologyhound, Slag.
  4. J

    Need help identifying

    That's what I thought too. But the other side looks like a course grained granite with some black Tourmaline. Course grained granite would be a slow cooling igneous rock where as the schist would be metamorphic.
  5. J

    Need help identifying pls

    I'm going to take a wild guess and say it looks like slag from a smelting furnace or such.
  6. J

    Identify rock

    Dana, it looks like a piece of quartzite. It's round because someone tumbled it or it's been rolling around in a stream bed for eons.
  7. J

    I need help

    Looks like a piece of quartz. the rainbow colors are probably caused by some small fractures on the surface that are reflecting out of it. Rounded because it's water worn.
  8. J

    Help!

    Really hard to tell from the pictures. Not sure those shiny faces are mica. If it is you should be able to peel off a thin sheet with a knife. If you can't then my guess for those shiny grains would be a feldspar. Given either of those two minerals in the piece the best I could guess is an...
  9. J

    Anyone know what this is?

    I guess I'll make a comment or two. It's just a rock. Probably a conglomerate of sedimentary origin that has rolled around for so long it's got rounded. Typical of river banks. It would look nice back in the river bank. Not trying to be a smart a... but it's nothing of importance. But it's...
  10. J

    Help with this very sparkly rock?

    I do not see any schist structure now. But now think what you have is a coarse grained quartzite. Look here; https://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/research/research/etap/use-wear-raw-material.html But, if you look here https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/pubshare/M067.pdf you will see there is only one small...
  11. J

    Help with this very sparkly rock?

    My first thought was a mica schist but I didn't see that much schist quality except on that one photo of the dark side of the specimen. It's a tough one just from the pics but it sure seems metamorphic for sure.
  12. J

    Found outside Kitui, Kenya

    They both look like quartz and are not quartzite. Really nice pieces. I say quartz because you can see some conchoidal fractures on the surfaces. The rainbow you see is most likely one of those fractures reflecting the light off the fracture, very common. Guy who said to hide it was...
  13. J

    Odd rock

    Agree, I can see one XL that seems to follow the shape of terminating hexagonal shape with just two faces showing. Not cubic.
  14. J

    Rock or possibly crystal identification

    That was my first thought too.
  15. J

    Rock or possibly crystal identification

    Pretty hard to tell with the pics. Try scratching it with a knife. If it doesn't scratch then maybe some form of silicate mineral. If they don't scratch a SWAG for the red ones could be jasper. Others could be calcedony. Jasper is a variety of calcedony. Where did you find them?
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