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Need assistance identifying this Please

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:42:22 +0000

I found this in a small mountain in Yemen. can i get some beads out of it or a ring.

Can someone help me identify this?

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:52:36 +0000

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Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:49:35 +0000

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Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:04:34 +0000

Answered: Could someone I identify any/all of these rocks in this bulk?

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 06:32:40 +0000

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Sat, 07 Dec 2019 13:12:20 +0000

I found this stone in desert.

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 12:33:02 +0000

This 5*5 inches stone having smooth corner. Requested identification.

Stone Spesification

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:28:14 +0000

What is the stone name if the color is red blood?

Can you please help me to identify this crystal? Is it a black diamond?

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:09:57 +0000

Can you please help me to identify this crystal,Is it a black diamond?

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 03:58:50 +0000

Answered: What Are These?

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:20:31 +0000

Any Kind of Stone is this .. !

Answered: Gritty textured dark bluish rock with sparkling glow in its crevises found in Australia needs identifying.

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:50:53 +0000

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Answered: What is the "ropada" gemstone?

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:35:34 +0000

I've tried to get the specific gravity of these stones and the result was something along Aventurine and quartz 2.65-2.69 sp

Answered: Need assistance identifying this

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 02:47:19 +0000

Looks like iron pyrite, is it magnetic.

Answered: Need assistance identifying this

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 02:45:18 +0000

Please post a picture. If you go back to the original post and click at it you should come up with the box and the two tool bars. . The first icon in the sixth box on the bottom toolbar is the one you should click to attach a picture. When you click on it follow the prompts make sure to save the server when you're through. The drop down box will give you three options. The icon looks like two mountains and the sun.

Answered: Anyone able to identify this pink reddish rock?

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:47:04 +0000

It doesn't look like a red or pink crystal. It may be staining of some sort of the underlying crystal. The only thing red like that is red like that is rhodochrosite and it doesn't look like any of the rhodochrosite I've ever seen it's not Garnet.

Answered: Can someone identify this? I’m afraid to touch it again.

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 23:11:02 +0000

Note: I first thought it was some kind of opal since it has a play of color in it. But it’s a real different stone. Still weird how such a radioactive gem is having opal-like fire when at the right angles. It counts over 3,4 micro sieverts an hour (that’s the current peak I’ve measured. Both alpha, beta, and gamma radiation is present. On the picture the numbers are also measured in miscro sieverts / hour)

Answered: Can Anyone Identify This Cabochon?

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 23:01:08 +0000

Probably Jasper like this one in rough from my own collection. Looks identical.

Answered: Green stone inside granite rock

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 04:43:33 +0000

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Answered: Can you please help me identify this crystal?

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:13:19 +0000

Yes, this is jasper. Blue jasper is a more rare color.

Answered: Please help me identify this crystal. Thank you ☮️

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 17:17:58 +0000

I think this might be calcite or gypsum

Answered: These were retrieved from COCONUTS (fruit). What could they be? They each measure 1cm diameter

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 08:55:05 +0000

Coconut pearls.

Answered: Please help! Can't identify this green mineral found in San Diego County, California.

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 09:55:03 +0000

I'm almost sure because of the structure of the mineral that it's most likely actinolite which is a rare green mineral found in southern California especially near wrightwood California

Answered: What are the white balls inside the nodule?

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:43:21 +0000

The rock itself looks like jasper, the nodules themselves, I cannot see clearly.

Answered: Does Galena leave black on your hands?

Sun, 18 Aug 2019 05:23:00 +0000

It is not the only minerl that will.

Answered: Can I use 30% vinegar to remove a whitish hydroxyzincite patina from Zincite?

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 19:36:21 +0000

I do not know. Have you tried rock store near you.?

Answered: New rock found near riverbed. Needs identification.

Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:00:04 +0000

Well, staining comes from trace minerals like iron which would give it a pinkish cast. The yellowish cast might come from limonite another iron derivative.

Answered: What is this rock? [solid red rock with black porous substance on top]

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 03:09:40 +0000

Best guess is rhyolite on the pink. On the porous Black rock I'm thinking that is pumice

Answered: Need help identifying stones in necklace. Necklace is circa 1960s. Possibly Native American? Thank you!

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:47:23 +0000

Green stones are malachite. Larger stones might be Jasper. Still working on the white stones which might be quartz and the black stones.

Answered: Another piece to identify. Got at flea market.

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:03:39 +0000

Could be some vegetation that calcified. Could be limestone. Put a drop of vinegar on some of the pieces that have broken up. If it fizzes up, it is probably limestone. The sample may even be solidified excrement from an ancient animal, if it were fossilized it would be called a copralite.

Answered: What is this black rock?

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:43:18 +0000

I don't know much about stones, but it seems to me that this is still obsidian. Although I am not sure about this 100%. It would be very interesting to know if this is obsidian ...

Answered: Can someone identify this rock?

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:15:57 +0000

Picture of the unpolished side (the back of the stone).

Answered: Help identify this gem, what is its value?

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:10:47 +0000

On the picture I can think of rough lapis lazuli, tanzanite, maybe rough blue aventurine, just to name a few. Is it transparent or opaque?

Answered: Help identify

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:52:36 +0000

There are many possibilities. There are also two kinds of material here.

A geode is an outer husk of one rock with an inner core of another substance. Really, that is a simplification but accurate enough for this discussion.

The outer portion or husk could be a number of substances. It could be slag, which is waste metal. That would be magnetic. If it were a meteorite and that husk were a burnt husk from entry into the atmosphere, that would be cool, too.

I suspect it is a porous rock formed by volcanic activity which cooled. As it cooled, air bubbles formed and over the years, sediments permeated the husk and a concretion of sand and trace elements formed the inner rock.

The outside rock could be basalt, flint or even hematite.

Flint would be hard and scratching it with a nail would not be possible. It would also spark if you struck it together with steel. It would not be magnetic. Hematite would be, most meteorites would be, too. And, slag. Lots of questions for you but some answers, too. The answers will serve to narrow the choices down so we can complete our identification

Answered: Could you Help identify this rock or mineral?

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:33:59 +0000

So, where did you find it? Does light shine through it when you back light it. Is it smooth or rough. To me it looks like weathered quartz. The rock may have some staining from trace elements. If it was found near water, that would explain the weathering. As a matter of the back lighting, that will tell you if the rock is translucent. I suspect it will light up if you hold it in front of a light source. You may be able to see inclusions, cracks and such which you cannot see without the light.

Answered: Help with identifying this mineral!

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 23:02:58 +0000

Limestone and calcite are my two candidtes with calcite being the major suspect. Dolomite is also fairly common and has the same properties. If I hd to bet it would be dolomite.

Answered: pleae help identify- small cluster with tiny globe crystals and hair-like crystals shooting up

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 19:37:29 +0000

The picture isn’t good enough to tell what exact kind of minerals, but I am 99% sure that the minerals are part of the zeolite group, the hair like ones look like mesolite and the smaller crystals look like phillipsite or maybe cowlesite. The zeolite group is my favorite, so if you want more help identifying the specific types, feel free to post more detailed pictures!

Answered: please help identify material of pendant

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 19:07:12 +0000

This looks like labradorite to me, or some other similar type of precious feldspar. That’s my best guess. Here’s a picture of a specimen I own:

Answered: Is agate named as a mineral in its own right?

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:55:06 +0000

Thank you so much as we are trying to certify that agate is not a mineral. Top answer but not sure how to put that up.

Answered: Found this on the beach. its amazing but can anyone help me with finding out what it is?

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:55:41 +0000

It looks like or fluorite or green aventurine to me. I have a big chunk of it here so I attach a picture of it for comparison. Hope this helps a bit.

Answered: What kind of stone is this? (found in the Netherlands)

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 03:20:48 +0000

Could it be Scoria?

Answered: can you help me identify these stones? i have other (maybe precious) stones as well

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 03:09:40 +0000

Sodalite perhaps?

Answered: Can anyone help me identify these stones??Thank you!

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 03:05:45 +0000

The 2nd and 4th pictures from top look like Sodaite. 6th picture may be flint?

Answered: What is this looks like it has a sharks tooth and a shell

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:27:09 +0000

Very worn petrified coral? If so, it should be limestone.

Answered: What is this rock?

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:17:42 +0000

conglomerate rock (many smaller rocks) with the white lines consisting of feldspar or quartzite?

Answered: I'm really curious what kind of rock it is?

Thu, 18 Jul 2019 01:56:35 +0000

conglomerate of quartzite, calcite with mica or schist?

Help me identity this blue stone.

Sun, 14 Jul 2019 01:09:34 +0000

This beautiful Victorian age necklace belonged to my Great Grandmother. I need help to identity this stone. It has an inner dimension of swirls that moves with motion. It does not have any pyrite flakes so I am confident it is not Lapis Lazuli. I do not know how to post photos without a link so I added a video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrXoQUeKkfE

Thank you for any suggestions.

Clay Crane

Green semi-precious stone Identification help!

Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:52:09 +0000

Anyone on here have any ideas as to what this stone is? I need to match it for a mosaic. I thought it might be rough Malachite but one gemstone dealer told me that it wasnt but also did not know what it was.

Anyone know what it might be and where I might find some? I am a mosaic artist based in Ireland.

Thanks for the help. Sunny

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Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:05:32 +0000

Where to begin?

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 07:32:21 +0000

I want to collect my own collection of minerals, but I do not understand much about it. Where should I start? What books need to be read?