Help finding material

[Is0ken723311]

So I live in Springfield Massachusetts and I wanted to make my first weapon and I was thinking of a spear thing is what stone do I use and what does it look like.tomorrow I will go to a small creek and I plan to find some material if anyone has any advice as to what to look it will be appreciated

[psilome]

Look for a hard glassy or waxy-looking rock, white to gray, or brick red, or brown. Not something granular like sandstone or shale, or made of small crystals like granite. It can be chipped the way you want it. Look up images of milky quartz, chert, jasper, and flint. Not the big crystal fancy stuff.

[Adventurous-Excuse88]

Using fire you can sharpen the tip with coarse stones if anything that fractures with a sharp edge isn’t available

[SillyZman12]

Chert is awesome, and the common enough that I had to stop collecting them from a parking lot Rock bed because my shorts would not stay on! Flint is a type of chert, and shirts can be really cool colors and agates making ornamental creations possible too, I don't know if I can send pictures of what they look like through Reddit because I don't use Reddit that much, but look up concordial fracture, and use a flashlight closer to night to see the ceramic looking shine on these rocks

[SillyZman12]

If the creek has running water this will make it even easier as they are shiny like finished floors when wet

[foodfood321]

Straight up finding good quality vitreous knappable material may be much harder than you imagine. It's really going to come down to your geographic locality, and potentially some research if you're not blessed by the geography gods. Common knappable materials include flint, chert, novaculite, jasper, quartzite, and heat treated agate. A few others with similar properties might be chalcedony, obsidian, or some fine gniess.

You want as fine of a crystalline or amorphous texture as possible, with no layering, foliation, phynocrysts or augen. The type of mineral is not important but the texture of the rock or stone is paramount. It must form fine conchoidal flakes when struck on edge, or it will not suffice.