Carol Reynolds Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Can any of you tell me what this is? A gift from my father when I was young. He traveled all over the world so his location does not help. It is about the size of a large hand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GotAU? Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 5 hours ago, Carol Reynolds said: Can any of you tell me what this is? A gift from my father when I was young. He traveled all over the world so his location does not help. It is about the size of a large hand. Hi Carol, welcome! That is a very nice specimen. Steve may move this post to the Mineral and Gem forum as it was accidentally misplaced in the wrong forum here, but I wanted to help out anyways. For future mineral id info- post rocks and minerals here:https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/forum/51-rocks-minerals-gems-geology/ Anyways, my guess is a type of hematite (iron oxide crystal) known as specularite. There are better photos that better match it on the internet (google specularite or look here: https://www.bluegems.com.au/shop/minerals-jewellery-gems/a-hematite-and-quartz/), but minedat has good physical info about it. https://www.mindat.org/min-5574.html Glad you like rocks and minerals too! 😀 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Honestly too blurry to really tell. A sharp photo would help a lot. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol Reynolds Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 I hope this is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Almost looks like Silicon Carbide but with less colors. I hope someone knows what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldmancoyote1 Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 It's still way to out of focus. The tiny details are telling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Yes, there are many dark semi metallic minerals that can look like this. It is maddeningly familiar but I can’t quite put my finger on it. This chromite is close, but still not it. There are some hints of color to the black that hint copper ore like bornite, but that does not quite fit for me also, not colorful enough. It needs a closeup and very sharp photo, that would show the actual crystal habit or form, to narrow this down. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob(AK) Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Any rock that black I would see it it attracts a magnet 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 And give it a good scrape on a streak plate. Still bugs me. If I was looking at it with eyeballs it would probably come to me, but the photo obscures just enough that it is not clicking for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol Reynolds Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 No magnetic properties. Thank you for working on this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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