❓Your Mineral Identification Questions answered here

[Hunting the yellow]

Hello all, I was supposed to take good photos and post here for identification
of some of my rocks, here we go , please if you can identify them for me , I will be truly grateful.

thanks and cheers

top first one could be ironstone need a better pic of it others not sure on greenish one defiantly some type of copper ore

 

[Lefty]

I don't need the mineral identified, I know it's a quartz crystal. I dug it up at Lowmead. I was just wondering if Goldirocks or anyone else could identify the proper geological name for this.......erm, unique-looking formation? :lol:

 

[Pat Hogen]

Haven't you seen those crystals on a leather thong and being sold as the wow factor in the US, Hollywood?

 

[Dave79]

What sort of thong are we talking about here :8

 

[Lefty]

Haven't you seen those crystals on a leather thong and being sold as the wow factor in the US, Hollywood?

You mean there's a market for them among the rich and famous? I gotta get back out there! :lol:

 

[22shells]

Lefty it looks a bit like what they call a sceptre I think, where the top is bigger than the main part of the crystal. That's my guess anyway.

 

[Lefty]

Lefty it looks a bit like what they call a sceptre I think, where the top is bigger than the main part of the crystal. That's my guess anyway.

Yeah that's my guess as well - there's plenty of sceptres at Lowmead but I haven't found another that looks quite like this one!

 

[Pat Hogen]

The bummer might be that I sold a citrine variety to a lady for $5 just a few days ago, because the inclusions excluded cutting a clean stone.

 

[22shells]

Any thoughts on this one? From last weekend. Thinking maybe it's got a bit of kyanite in it? Schist? Just picked it up cos it looked good.

 

[22shells]

The other side of it:

 

[Ward69]

Has anyone seen this before Washing the pan, this little rock wouldn't move.

so looking at it more closely hmm full of flour gold. It's in bedded in Quartz like stone

 

[LONEWOLF]

A good sceptre Crystal is worth 100x more than a plain Crystal... Im off to Harts Range next year hunting these.... hopefully I might find something like this..

LW...

 

[kingswood]

What is this rock?...Kinda looks like quartz in some white coating then there is brown coating that

 

[LONEWOLF]

Rough Location would help...

LW

 

[kingswood]

Rough Location would help...

LW

Pilbara region of WA

 

[LONEWOLF]

Not too sure of Minerals of the Pilbara.... Don't really think I will get up that way, so I haven't really Researched the area.....But at a guess Prehnite?...

Lol I did an image search and came up with Malt Loaf.... Thanks Google for nothing...

LW.....

 

[kingswood]

Not too sure of Minerals of the Pilbara.... Don't really think I will get up that way, so I haven't really Researched the area.....But at a guess Prehnite?...

Lol I did an image search and came up with Malt Loaf.... Thanks Google for nothing...

LW.....

Malt loaf? Yum

 

[Pat Hogen]

Prehnite or Chrysoprase.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Now come to think of it, I have seen some Chrysoprase from WA that looks simular with the crusty coating like the Example....

Thanks Pat Hogan for jolting my Memory.. :Y:

LW....

 

[22shells]

I often find this stuff, not sure what it is so I call it haematite or magnetite. Tiny bits often give a good signal on the metal detector. This is a bigger bit that I just picked up. Makes it hard looking for gold when there is a lot of this. Anyone know what it is?