sphalerite

2247 pts ยท June 25, 2013


A rock

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Nice one!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Formed by quartz precipitating in multiple episodes in a cavity.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Very nice specimen!

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Calcite if I think. The purple is fluorite, the base is sphalerite.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Correct

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Geo here, that is glass slag, not a rock.

5 years ago | Likes 68 Dislikes 0

More likely glass slag.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I just started rereading this!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nice specimen!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes, that is a nice example of bioturbation.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nice conglomerate. Glacial deposit?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That is an older meme sir, but it checks out.

6 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Could be, at least part of it. But the blue parts I am fairly sure it's bornite, which occurs commonly with chalcopyrite.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Those opal veins though..

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The Pacific, same people that made Band of Brothers

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Gabbro!

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Would agree

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Some sort of fossils. I think some form of shells. Try to carefully crack it open!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ones are? Corals? Teeth? Or rocks?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

An the polished green-grey one in the centre aquamarine. But it is difficult from those pictures! Do you know what the white elongated ..

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bottom right is a sulphide ore, bornite I think. The waxy yellow might be sulfur.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The mottled brown one is jasper. The clear polished one is quartz. The clear blue one in the centre turquoise. The metallic one in ..

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Gonna try: blue top left is Sodalite, the clear one to the right of it quartz, below (white one translucent) gypsum.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Are you going to tumble or polish them?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That is a gabbro with augite (an amphibole, not pyroxene) in feldspar groundmass.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

+1 for Jason Isbell, he is awsome

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I can't be the only one enjoying this while taking a dump myself.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Looks like a seriously nice fieldwork area!

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thicc dough

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