Kinfolk Thumper Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Need help identifying please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_day Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Identifying stones from photos alone is difficult. Do you have more information, such as hardness and specific gravity? Can you take some clearer photos, maybe a little closer? It would certainly help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinfolk Thumper Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 Not sure on hardness or gravity or how to even find out I’m new to this rock stuff but want to learn as much as possible here is a couple more pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Au Seeker Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I could be very wrong as I'm not an expert, but ti sorta looks like black banded agate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morlock Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 I'm no expert either. It looks like water worn banded basalt but probably wrong. Just a guess. Rocks are just so hard to indentify compared to minerals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_day Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Anything we put forward without more info than just the pictures is going to be a guess. The white portion is pretty obviously softer than the rest of the stone, since you can see deeper wear near the edges. The white part is not much softer than the rest though, since it’s barely eroded more than the rest. It might be from a half to a full point softer on the Mohs scale. Or it might even be the same hardness but appears to wear more quickly because it’s more crystalline than the rest. That being said, it looks a bit like a river worn jade with quartz veins. It also looks like it could be marble. There’s just no telling without more info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigrex Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Could be all sorts of things, calcite veins on limestone, quartz veins on a metamorphic rock, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuss Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 see if you can scratch the dark area and the white areas with a push pin or knife, that will give a starting point to finding out the hardness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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