Boxiedoxie Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 (edited) My daughter found this rock on our property in SW Kansas. I'm sure it wasn't formed here but brought in from the previous owner of our house. I've done some research on it (which brought me to this site) and I'm pretty sure it's green obsidian. I've Looked up pictures of both green obsidian and pitchstone and it looks more like green obsidian. One site had a description and it was right on with Green obsidian. I would like to get your opinion.Also, I can't find the right forum to put this in, but when I go to my profile and try to edit it just comes up with a screen full of odd font symbols. Anyone know how to fix it, or where to post this question? I've already sent a message to Support, but haven't heard anything, yet. Thank. Edited June 7, 2013 by Boxiedoxie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dorado Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Funny you should bring this up, I have a pile of obsidian rocks used as garden rocks. I was cleaning around them and looking at them and I noticed one thst had a green tone to it. It's sitting on my coffee table right now and the next step is going to be cut a big cabochon out of it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxiedoxie Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 (edited) Finally got pictures up. Edited June 7, 2013 by Boxiedoxie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondmn Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I have some of that and also some in blue-gray color. Picked it up from an estate so I don't know where it came from. Might be Davis creek, not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haderly Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Burns Green Obsidian from near Burns, Oregon. It is fairly rare since it is the only location that produced any green obsidian. It could also be slag glass but based on the pictures it does look like obsidian to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxiedoxie Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 Is there any way it could be flint? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haderly Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Is there any way it could be flint?Possibly but looking at the pictures it appears to be very glassy looking. A conical fracture in flint would be smooth but not glassy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfinger Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 I'm not sure it's obsidian. If it's opaque and not translucent on the edges, it's something else. Chip off a little piece to check. To be honest, I've seen slag that looked similar to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haderly Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Steve the burns green obsidian is not translucent at least not at ¼” thickness. I do however agree that it is slag glass. I looked at the larger picture in the gallery and I would bet on slag glass.http://www.nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/index.php?app=gallery&album=23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Au Seeker Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Boxiedoxie, I removed the large image that Haderly is referring too in his post, this action was due to your earlier request to delete it because it was too large, which I agree, it was almost impossible to view it very well, I did however replace it with a smaller version of the same image, the title now is the image code from my computer. You can edit it, replace it or re-title it as you like, if you need any help doing so let me know. Skip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldfinger Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Steve the burns green obsidian is not translucent at least not at ¼” thickness. I do however agree that it is slag glass. I looked at the larger picture in the gallery and I would bet on slag glass.http://www.nuggetshooter.ipbhost.com/index.php?app=gallery&album=23Casey, I don't think I've ever seen any obsidian that's translucent through a 1/4" thick slab. I meant a really,really thin piece. MY bet is the green specimen will be opaque , no matter how thin it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greendave41 Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 that's slag for sure. Air bubbles are a dead giveaway.-Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mihailovici179 Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Hello. It`s slag for sure. Sorry Best RegardsMihail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxiedoxie Posted June 11, 2013 Author Share Posted June 11, 2013 Thanks Skip! I looked up pictures of slag glass and pictures of green obsidian and I have to say that there were more pictures of green obsidian that looked like my rock. I have pieces that I broke off and none of them are opaque. One piece has one small spot at the very edge (>1/16th") that is a little translucent and that's only where a gold colored streak is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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