Pinaleno Mountains Rock ID help

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

Hey guys! New to the forums and rock hounding in general, I just moved to Arizona and went hiking in the Pinaleno Mountains today (big mistake to do when it's 105 out, but I drank water like no tommorow), and I found a rock that caught my eye. It didn't set off my metal detector but it's very magnetic... attached is a photo if anyone can help me ID this, that'd be great

[GlennM 93]

Hard to tell from the photo, but looks like the shiny material is common mica. If you poke it with something like a knife or fork time does it "shatter" and produce flakes?

The magnetism indicates ferrous metal or magnetite. The pic is just too dark to get a good read on it, but some expert around here will certainly chime in, I'm sure.

Welcome to the forums. Let me know if you ever want to go out beeping.

[Goldfinger 43]

Impossible to tell from the photo. I suggest you do a streak test first. Scratch the stone across a piece of unglazed porcelain. You can use the underside of the lid on the water tank of your toilet.

http://geology.csupomona.edu/alert/mineral/streak.htm

Next- you can do a hardness test.

http://geology.csupomona.edu/alert/mineral/hardness.htm

If you knew the specific location- it would help.

http://www.mindat.org/lsearch.php?from=nsearch&loc=Pinaleno%2B

Post the results here and we'll see if we can narrow it down. A better photo would help also....

Steve

[adam 3,127]

She said it was "very magnetic" .. The picture is very bad AGG, can you please try to get a couple shots in better light?

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

Thanks so much for the help guys! I plan on being a rock hound for the time I am out here, which is till October! I'm probally going to the mule mountains this weekend to look for Turquoise and/or small gold. Here are some more pictures and as I attempt to do tests, I will post the results. Tried a variety of lighting for the pictures.

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

I can't remember the EXACT but I know the general area I was when I found it so I circled that area with orange.

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

Steak test gave like a orange/gold color

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

Steak test gave like a orange/gold color

[Goldfinger 43]

Steak test gave like a orange/gold color

You should streak it some more in the same place. That was probably just a surface streak and not an interior one. If it's the same, it could be limonite,hematite or a combination of those two and other iron minerals.

http://www.mindat.org/min-2402.html

http://www.mindat.org/min-1856.html

Steve

[adam 3,127]

I believe that it may be a combination of a couple minerals. I`ve known Hematite to sometimes carry very little magnetism. It may be a micacious schist that carries an iron mineral ? Hmmmm :hmmmmm:

[frank c 969]

Welcome to the forum, much can be learned here.

What manufacturer brand and model detector are you using ???

Hapy Huntn

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

Sorry about being MIA, had an upper respiratory infection this week (horrible)... Anyways, being the adventurous gal I am, I decided to brave the mountains again not being 100% and feel like hell again, oh well. Anyways, here's some pictures of some of my finds....

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

[Arizona Gold Girl 0]

Here are the interesting ones, this one rock has a bunch of weird green crevices in it, the other it just weird too...

[adam 3,127]

Hi AZGG , Those specimens are important to you and thats what matters. Looks like a bunch of quartz for the most part ,and maybe some Basalt or rhyolite... Best of luck out there !