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Can anyone identify these?

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rskrede

Can anyone identify these?
May 18, 2012 07:54PM

Can anyone help me identify these? I have had them for about 25 years since I was a little kid and have no idea what they are, but are very interesting.

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Heath Barnes

Re: Can anyone identify these?
May 18, 2012 08:04PM

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First looks like smokey- rose quartze mix ?- second looks like chert,- the last maybee a flint nodule.

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Paul Brandes

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May 18, 2012 08:13PM

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479.jpg: Rose quartz.
759.jpg: Chert or possibly common opal.
814.jpg: Rounded chalcedony nodule, likely an amygdule that eroded out of basalt.

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James Christopher

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May 19, 2012 03:17PM

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I was thinking #3 looked a little like mahogany obsidian, rounded in a stream, but it's hard to tell

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Becky Coulson

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May 19, 2012 05:23PM

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I think James is correct - the lower left of photo 3 looks very much like "mahogany" obsidian. Becky

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Jim Bean

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May 20, 2012 04:32AM

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Thirded on the mahogany obsidain. The campground at Plum Valley Campground in the Warner Mountains in northeastern California has very similar stream-rounded obsidain in the creek next to the campground.

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