amed 1 Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 Hi, Hope you all having a great day My friends were in the middle of the desert and they found these which type of rocks they are? can we sell them, worth any money? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chrisski 871 Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 In my amateur opinion, the rocks are worthless. If you could find these by the railroad cart full, with access to a railroad, ad had millions to invest in the process, perhaps these could be some type of ore to make iron or copper with. If the black one burned, you could sell pounds of it as coal. These type of rocks require a large refining process to produce. Perhaps the green shows a copper ore of some sorts, again same story about railroad cars and millions of dollars. I'd bet most of those would be magnetic, which means iron. If you found dump trucks full of these rocks, perhaps there's some value in them as landscaping rocks. In Arizona, 1 ton of these rocks, or 36 five gallon buckets, would be between $35 and $55. Again with this, its mass production, but perhaps a few machines for tens of thousands of dollars could make it worth your while. Need to have quite the supply of them though, 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Desertpilot 571 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Middle of the desert...huh? lots of fossil sea shells in the first pic. Way cooler find than some light copper oxide staining. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red_desert 145 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Take them to a geology teacher at a university. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
d_day 357 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 I’d guess iron ore and calcite for the first two. The rest look like low grade agates and jaspers. The green staining might be chrysocolla. Are they valuable? No. Can you sell them? Not legally if they were found on public land. Legally if they were found on private property and you have permission from the owner. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amed 1 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 14 hours ago, chrisski said: In my amateur opinion, the rocks are worthless. If you could find these by the railroad cart full, with access to a railroad, ad had millions to invest in the process, perhaps these could be some type of ore to make iron or copper with. If the black one burned, you could sell pounds of it as coal. These type of rocks require a large refining process to produce. Perhaps the green shows a copper ore of some sorts, again same story about railroad cars and millions of dollars. I'd bet most of those would be magnetic, which means iron. If you found dump trucks full of these rocks, perhaps there's some value in them as landscaping rocks. In Arizona, 1 ton of these rocks, or 36 five gallon buckets, would be between $35 and $55. Again with this, its mass production, but perhaps a few machines for tens of thousands of dollars could make it worth your while. Need to have quite the supply of them though, oh that's frustrating :( we thought we'll make some decent money out of these cuz in the same area some ppl found space rocks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amed 1 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 11 hours ago, Desertpilot said: Middle of the desert...huh? lots of fossil sea shells in the first pic. Way cooler find than some light copper oxide staining. Yes, in the middle of the desert literally. to be specific, near west Sahara in the Mauritanian border but later on my friends came to Nouadhibou city which is like an island where we took some of these pictures 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amed 1 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, d_day said: I’d guess iron ore and calcite for the first two. The rest look like low grade agates and jaspers. The green staining might be chrysocolla. Are they valuable? No. Can you sell them? Not legally if they were found on public land. Legally if they were found on private property and you have permission from the owner. in my country anything you find in the desert is yours as long as you're a citizen except for some areas Edited November 7, 2019 by amed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morlock 1,763 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 48 minutes ago, amed said: in my country anything you find in the desert is yours as long as you're a citizen except for so areas What country do you live in? Amed sounds like it's from the middle east. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amed 1 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 49 minutes ago, Morlock said: What country do you live in? Amed sounds like it's from the middle east. I live in Mauritania, northwestern Africa. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
d_day 357 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 2 hours ago, amed said: in my country anything you find in the desert is yours as long as you're a citizen except for some areas I’m sorry that I assumed you were in the US. Almost all the members of this forum are, so it’s an easy mistake to make. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
d_day 357 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 And looking more closely at your pics, the stones I thought were agates look more like vesicular basalt. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amed 1 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 33 minutes ago, d_day said: I’m sorry that I assumed you were in the US. Almost all the members of this forum are, so it’s an easy mistake to make. It okay, I see. And Probably i'm the first Mauritanian you've ever met Quote Link to post Share on other sites
amed 1 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 41 minutes ago, d_day said: And looking more closely at your pics, the stones I thought were agates look more like vesicular basalt. You mean these with molten look? we were so excited about them we thought they're meteorites 🤦♂️ what about this one 👇 is it valuable? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morlock 1,763 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Hard to exactly what you have. Could be agate or possibly petrified wood. You'd need much bigger pieces and a market for them to be worth anything. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Haderly 99 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 The last one looks like flint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_flint 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
4meter 201 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Last 5 photos are slag. Red rocks look like saprolite (highly weathered "rotted" rocks); one has some green copper mineral on the outside. White rock is a Gniess (metamorphic rock). First photo looks to be either a mineralized ore or a igneous rock that has has been changed mostly into the mineral Chlorite and wad (black magnesium,manganese and others). Second photo looks like the Gniess that has been changed into Chlorite and other minerals. All together the rocks speak of an area that once had geothermal activity. Very nice! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red_desert 145 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 11 hours ago, amed said: Yes, in the middle of the desert literally. to be specific, near west Sahara in the Mauritanian border but later on my friends came to Nouadhibou city which is like an island where we took some of these pictures I think I've looked at photos of dinosaur bones or teeth, which were found somewhere in that area. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red_desert 145 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 8 hours ago, amed said: You mean these with molten look? we were so excited about them we thought they're meteorites 🤦♂️ what about this one 👇 is it valuable? This here I.m holding, is what a reddish type of petrified wood looks like, found at a certain spot in the Arizona desert after polishing. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
d_day 357 Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 8 hours ago, amed said: You mean these with molten look? we were so excited about them we thought they're meteorites 🤦♂️ what about this one 👇 is it valuable? Looks like flint. Flint with these kinds of patterns could be worth $10-$20 a pound if you found pieces large enough to be cut into slabs for cabochon making. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Geoprime 1 Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 As d_day said.......most of the images are vesicular basalt with a liberal coating of desert varnish. And not particularly valuable to the rock market. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red_desert 145 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 On 11/7/2019 at 7:55 PM, Red_desert said: Nouadhibou city Bay of Nouadhibou Ship Graveyard – Nouadhibou, Mauritania ... https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bay-of-nouadhibou-ship-graveyard The city of Nouadhibou is the second largest settlement in Mauritania, but due to the limited employment activities, it is also somewhat poor. This economic hardship, as it often does, led to... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Red_desert 145 Posted November 10, 2019 Share Posted November 10, 2019 Any of the rocks at top attract a magnet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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