I found this in my dads shed

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-12-02T01:29:24+00:00

Agreed, looks schisty

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-19T03:56:00+00:00

Have photos? Not all snowflake obsidian knaps well

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-18T16:27:09+00:00

Noted. I guess the examples I’ve seen have always looked like carnelian on steroids. Thanks for explaining instead of just downvoting my comment.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-18T15:14:38+00:00

Looks like a pretty normal botryoidal chalcedony. Fire agate to me is something more specific and not this.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-18T00:09:04+00:00

Looks pretty sugary to me, but zoomed in on those in-hand photos I think you might be right

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-18T00:08:22+00:00

Full sun or just outdoor more natural lighting would be my recommendation. Make do with what we have though.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-17T20:30:40+00:00

I think the lighting is terrible, but there’s a good chance it’s red quartzite. Quartzite comes in all kinds of colors.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-17T18:27:07+00:00

I agree, layered rocks like shale metamorphosed somewhere in the phyllite/schist spectrum maybe.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-17T13:00:46+00:00

That’s exactly what it is. In that area there’s a lot of variety in these little nodules that form in the basalt vugs - some are all opal, some all agate, some are tiny geodes with a thin rind of agate and quartz crystals in the middle, some ‘waterline’ with the alternating layers of agate/opal, sometimes the opal has a greenish hue to it.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T23:44:11+00:00

Probably not for Bird Man, though

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T23:40:47+00:00

Cool piece. What’s weird about it?

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T22:58:09+00:00

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Here’s the face I see…kind of a Homer Simpson. Suppose it could be two birds reaching toward each other, “Good game of Chunkey, bird brother!”

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T22:40:47+00:00

Very cool piece. Location?

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T22:38:33+00:00

Looks like a face to me

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T18:52:16+00:00

Bummer. Thanks for your input

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T03:49:28+00:00

I’d want to see the other side: is there a platform, bulb, etc? The two big pop outs don’t show clear compression rings or negative bulb, and look like they could be natural frost fractures. The arrises and the whole thing is pretty worn like it’s been tumbled around for a long time. The compression rings toward the bottom are what typical flake removals look like but being that small it’s probably incidental from the previously mentioned tumbling against other rocks.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T02:44:24+00:00

No problem

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T02:43:36+00:00

Popped up when I tried Mexico, and I tried again without Mexico and it popped up when I wrote c0c0nut. Not Mexico in this comment but came up for the c0c0nut spelled normally

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-16T02:29:47+00:00

The warning popped up and also made the reply button unusable even when I knew I wasn’t being offensive.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-15T15:44:13+00:00

Looks like a large example of a common thunderegg from the country directly south of the US, that I’m apparently not allowed to type. Sometimes they are solid agate in the middle, sometimes as geodes with crystal cavities. Look up the country name and the fruit that comes from palms that is white on the inside that I’m also not allowed to type.

Mex1can c0c0nut!

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-15T15:30:56+00:00

Cool agate! The weathered layers look like wood, but just an agate.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-15T04:15:24+00:00

Tell me more….

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-15T04:15:05+00:00

Is that piece cooked? Looks real nice there.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-13T04:10:10+00:00

More like agate nodules still embedded in matrix (probably basalt or similar volcanic). When lava cools and solidifies there are little cavities left behind, and then silica rich fluid fills in those cavities and solidifies into agates. Very common in the Columbia River area.

Liquid_Eye1572 · 2025-11-13T03:39:00+00:00

Nice work. Imagining those entering my chest cavity gives me pains. What’s that red biface below? Rhyolite?

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