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I need to know what these three rocks are, please!

 
 
thiedo
 
Reply Sun 22 Nov, 2015 05:47 pm
Hi, does anyone know what these rocks are? I have no information, other than the picture, and Google has failed me. Sad

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/Pilotslover/Quiz%20Bits/Quiz%20-%20rocks/rock7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/Pilotslover/Quiz%20Bits/Quiz%20-%20rocks/rock5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v441/Pilotslover/Quiz%20Bits/Quiz%20-%20rocks/rock4.jpg
 
rosborne979
 
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Reply Sun 22 Nov, 2015 06:54 pm
@thiedo,
Where did you find them?
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sun 22 Nov, 2015 08:21 pm
@thiedo,
Its hard as hell to pin em down from these photos. I like some scale and clearer shots of the crystals to qctuqlly see their formation.

1The green one could be a number of things from your photo my guesses, in rder are

q. Chalcanthite
b, Uvarovite Garnet
c (Hiddinite ( varity of kunzite).
It could also be somethinglike Flourite but becuse flourite crystals usually qre found in connecting masses , these qre not flourite

Could even be a gemmy form of beryl, but the color is too "Same same" for all. Beryls vary in color saturqtion and value even on one specimen

2This ones easy, it a dense cryptocrystalline form of quartz in a pebble thats been rounded in a stream. WTuf like this carries noble metals

3Another guess. The crystqls are too vague and the color cn be at lest 40 different minerals
GUESSES ONLY

a. Vanadinite (It looks like this would be my first guess because of the matrix looks like "typical country rock" for vanadium ores

2. Orpiment/realgar or Cinnabar -both are sulfides, Orpiment is Arsenic and Cinnabar is Mercury. (Id give you some ideas on confirmatory testing but since both these two minerals can be toxic, Id rather you take it to some university geology department or find some experienced rockhound and show em)

3. Spessartine garnet-I say this if the matrix rock comes from Eastern US in the Appalachians

QUESTION---If you had no idea what these could be, how did you start looking them up on Google?

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