[Rockhounds] Pics for id

[Axel Emmermann]

> File or cut of a small chip of #005.
> If the cut is shiny it's lead.
[Axel] or, better said; lead is a soft metal that can be cut. Most other
candidates are brittle so you can file them off but cutting them won't work!
I realised that my first suggestion was incomplete since you can file many
minerals with a shiny 'cut' as a result ;-)

Axel


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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
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> > collectors
> > 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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