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Identity HelpCan anyone identify these?

18th May 2012 20:54 UTCrskrede

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.

18th May 2012 21:04 UTCAnonymous User

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

18th May 2012 21:13 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

479.jpg: Rose quartz.

759.jpg: Chert or possibly common opal.

814.jpg: Rounded chalcedony nodule, likely an amygdule that eroded out of basalt.

19th May 2012 16:17 UTCJames Christopher

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

19th May 2012 18:23 UTCBecky Coulson 🌟 Expert

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

20th May 2012 05:32 UTCJim Bean 🌟

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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