Hey rock collectors

[2nsane]

Need some help identifying this thing. My mom's aunt gave it to her many years ago, pretty much been handed down several times. Now my kiddo has it.

What you say?

 

[Cycle61]

That's a rock.

 

[Silence]

Hard to tell from that picture but it looks like iridescent pyrite to me.

 

[injun]

Is it magnetic?
Weight to size?
Looks metamorphic, but what the hell do I Know.
Send it to one of our many Universities, that is what I do.

 

[Silence]

2nsane, you may be able to find an online mineral classification key (dichotomous key) to help ID that thing.

 

[BURNROPE]

If it's pyrite and you do a streak test, it will leave a grayish-greenish mark. The color of the streak doesn't always match the rock or mineral color.

 

[westie]

I'm a rock collector. 1960's to present. You want a frickin' geologist.

 

[Zerox]

Need some help identifying this thing. My mom's aunt gave it to her many years ago, pretty much been handed down several times. Now my kiddo has it.

What you say?

I say....RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.


youtu.be/5oeiaED_0WE

 

[auntiebling]

Loops like Hard Rock to me. Hard to tell.without listening

 

[byke]

My googlefu says: Carborundum

 

[TripleSeven]

You guys really need to get out more. It's obviously unobtainium.

 

[JesasaurusRex]

Thought this was a thread about crack heads

 

[Cycle61]

Hit it with a hammer really hard.












Okay.


Now it's two rocks and some dust.

 

[Bowling4Bikes]

definitely a dickfer

 

[MrIncredible]

It's definitely not gneiss.

 

[Zerox]

Thought this was a thread about crack heads

:laughing

 

[Abacinator]

definitely a dickfer

What's a dickfer? :loco

 

[Bronto]

It's layers along with crystals are like some types of Stalactites. One of the variations of a Black Goethite.

 

[Bowling4Bikes]

What's a dickfer? :loco

:devil
Never
Gets
Old

 

[bruceflinch]

What's a dickfer? :loco

:laughing
In the Urban Dictionary after dickbutt