[Rockhounds] Pics for id

[Axel Emmermann]

File or cut of a small chip of #005.
If the cut is shiny it's lead.

Axel Emmermann
European Regional Vice President of the
Fluorescent Mineral Society
<http://www.uvminerals.org/>
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Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen/Antwerp Mineralogical Society
<http://www.minerant.org/index.html>
Werkgroepleider/Workgroup leader: Fluorescerende mineralen/Fluorescent
minerals
Technische Realisaties/Engineering
My website: http://users.telenet.be/axel.emmerman/FiatLux/Index.php
 
 
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> Namens jb
> Verzonden: dinsdag 28 juli 2009 5:49
> Aan: leinani35 at yahoo.com; Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock
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> Onderwerp: Re: [Rockhounds] Pics for id
> 
> leinani35 at yahoo.com wrote:
> > Ok, I was finally able to join the rockhounds.ning.com and post my
pictures that we need
> help with the id's. As far as copying the links to the pics, beats me! Not
sure how to do that.
> I know I created an album called Rock ID and uploaded 5 pics to it named:
Rock ID 001 -
> Rock ID 005. My name is Shawn Hendricks and the info on the pics is copied
again below. If
> anyone is able to help, I sure appreciate it.
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> > Could you please help us with what these are?
> >
> > pic 001 we are not sure
> >
> >
> 
> The color variations and texture would seem to me to be some kind of
> jasp-agate or moss agate. If it is from OK, then it could also be
> so-called Albiates Flint, which originates in NW TX and was widely used
> and traded among the aboriginal Americans.
> 
> 
> > pic 002 we think is petrified wood, we found at the bottom of Overholser
> > Dam in OK
> >
> >
> 
> This could be wood, but it could also be finely-layered sandstone which
> has been further silicified. I have seen lots of it around the
> Southwest, including TX and OK, and it is easily confused with wood.
> Sometimes the only way to distinguish the two is by polishing the
> cross-grain and looking for wood structures.
> 
> > pic 003 another pic of 002
> >
> > pic 004 Aaron wants to know what this is or what this would have been
> > maybe if he did not crack it open. The center is red and chalky but
seems to get harder as
> we scrape it but I told him to stop.
> >
> >
> 
> An ironstone concretion, which happens to be hollow. Mostly various iron
> oxides as Jim Murowchick indicated.  It could also be a piece of slag
> from an iron foundry, or a "clinker" from a coal-burning locomotive.
> 
> 
> 
> > pic 005 This is dense, and it writes, Aaron thinks lead?
> >
> 
> Can't tell from the picture. There aint a whole lot of molybdenite in
> OK, maybe none that is native. Not a whole lot of graphite either, ditto.
> I would guess that it is not a native stone but some kind of foundling.
> Maybe lead (which would easily melt to confirm; maybe a casting for
> making bullets or such).   Or slag ( if soft, perhaps from a battery
> recovery plant, etc).  Or a wheel balance weight from a big truck. Need
> more information.
> 
> >
> > Thank you all,
> > Shawn
> >
> >
> 
> 
> john
> 
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