Anyone collect rocks?

ARCO · May 6, 2019 5:14PM

I want to start now.

PCGSPhoto · May 6, 2019 5:25PM

This isn’t a terribly good photo, but here’s my collection (the rocks, not the coins).

Left to right are hematite “roses” in quartz from China, malachite from Congo, amethyst from Uruguay, a curious agate from Brazil, an Oregon thunder egg (a gift from my wife), Peru pyrite, Nevada stromatolite, a piece of obsidian from near Mono lake CA (a gift from my guitar teacher), Moroccan iron oxide quartz, a trilobite from Utah, Moroccan vanadinite, and a Japanese suiseki landscape stone. There’s some smaller items up there too like aquamarines, and tourmalines.

TurboSnail · May 6, 2019 6:14PM

This is just a small collection my daughters made me gather. My youngest one did gave one of her favorite away to a member on this forum who sent her a doll named Emma.

topstuf · May 6, 2019 6:28PM

I don't know what this is but I found it in Montana.

tommy44 · May 6, 2019 6:29PM

@ricko said:
I collected rocks as a kid.... and coins.... Now marbles (guineas and cobras), coins and guns.... and playing cards, and old pocket flasks, and gold and books. Cheers, RickO

Hey @ricko, here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full. Great minds think alike.

TurboSnail · May 6, 2019 6:35PM

@tommy44 said:

@ricko said:
I collected rocks as a kid.... and coins.... Now marbles (guineas and cobras), coins and guns.... and playing cards, and old pocket flasks, and gold and books. Cheers, RickO

Hey @ricko, here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full. Great minds think alike.

True story, I got drawers full with 1st generation Pokemon cards that I purchased but never played during my college year. And I recently gave to my daughters to play before I found out that they worth at least thousands of dollars. lol

Tunis · May 6, 2019 6:56PM

Texas points?

ricko · May 6, 2019 7:14PM

Nice collection.... mine are mainly very old, in pristine condition... I have one deck without numbers...that is how they once were made.... Five of hearts had five hearts... and so on.... When numbers were first added, players were suspicious that it might be a way to cheat.... Cheers, RickO

kbbpll · May 6, 2019 8:37PM

@PCGSPhoto said:
This isn’t a terribly good photo, but here’s my collection (the rocks, not the coins).

Left to right are hematite “roses” in quartz from China, malachite from Congo, amethyst from Uruguay, a curious agate from Brazil, an Oregon thunder egg (a gift from my wife), Peru pyrite, Nevada stromatolite, a piece of obsidian from near Mono lake CA (a gift from my guitar teacher), Moroccan iron oxide quartz, a trilobite from Utah, Moroccan vanadinite, and a Japanese suiseki landscape stone. There’s some smaller items up there too like aquamarines, and tourmalines.

Somehow your mantle looks slightly different than mine. I got little bits of crap from 4 continents. Left to right are... nevermind.

ifthevamzarockin · May 6, 2019 8:42PM

SkyMan · May 6, 2019 9:26PM

Here's a 34 gram piece of MARS. Notice the fusion crust from surviving the plunge through Earth's atmosphere. For scale, the coin is a Barber quarter.

Since I never saw it fall, I have no idea what the color of the meteorite was when it went through the atmosphere, but here's something for the next time you see a meteor/meteorite...

leothelyon · May 7, 2019 5:42AM

My only rock puzzle aside from metal, wood or plastic puzzles I have. Perhaps an Indian child's toy? Someone went to great lengths cutting it in half or maybe someone here has an explanation. But it takes some time reassembling the pieces back together.

Leo

Insider2 · May 7, 2019 8:46AM

@tommy44 said: "...here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full...."

Do you have that limited edition set issued at the FUN coin show? I'll see if I can find an image somewhere.

cucamongacoin · May 7, 2019 10:23AM

cucamongacoin · May 7, 2019 10:32AM

tommy44 · May 7, 2019 10:52AM

@Insider2 said:
@tommy44 said: "...here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full...."

Do you have that limited edition set issued at the FUN coin show? I'll see if I can find an image somewhere.

I'm embarrassed to admit I did have them but someone made me a offer I couldn't refuse. Maybe I'm not a collector after all.

ColonelJessup · May 7, 2019 2:53PM

@ifthevamzarockin said:

@johnny9434 said:
Not here but do like marbles

I lost all my marbles years ago, all I have left are rocks in my head. Does that count as a collection?

And yet is that not itself a great wisdom?

ColonelJessup · May 7, 2019 2:56PM

@Laurie, AKA @specialist, used to have a superb collection. May still.

tommy44 · May 7, 2019 5:20PM

Are these considered rocks?

Dog tooth or hounds tooth calcite from the Berry College campus in Floyd county just North of Rome, GA. I picked this up years ago and have been told access to the area is no longer available.

What is it? I picked it up at a flea market in Germany when I was on a business trip in 1989 or 90. I can't remember what it is but I like the way it looks.

Tunis · May 7, 2019 6:46PM

Here are the top 3 shelves of my collection. Then two close ups of some CAC like specimens.

savitale · May 8, 2019 3:07PM

I love these collections of beautiful “rocks”. But there’s a small part of my brain telling me I can’t start my own collection until I figure out how to organize them in a Dansco album.

ronctx · May 8, 2019 3:57PM

@Tunis said:
Texas points?

I'm assuming your asking about the Dart Points and Arrowheads. Good eye, yes they are from the area South of Dallas and to around Waco TX.

Tunis · May 8, 2019 4:27PM

Thought so. I collect points and tools from South and Central Texas. Very similar characteristics

amwldcoin · May 8, 2019 4:30PM

Size is everything! There are many beautiful gems that will fit in a Dansco!

@savitale said:
I love these collections of beautiful “rocks”. But there’s a small part of my brain telling me I can’t start my own collection until I figure out how to organize them in a Dansco album.

BillDugan1959 · May 8, 2019 4:42PM

I don't have any rocks but my Doctor cautions that I may be developing stones...

Hemispherical · May 8, 2019 4:58PM

@BillDugan1959 said:
I don't have any rocks but my Doctor cautions that I may be developing stones...

Ouch with a bunch of exclamation marks.

metalmeister · May 8, 2019 6:14PM

@ronctx That's a lot of arrowheads! Did you find those? What state?

topstuf · May 8, 2019 6:15PM

@BillDugan1959 said:
I don't have any rocks but my Doctor cautions that I may be developing stones...

Those will pass.

metalmeister · May 8, 2019 6:17PM

I just saw it. Texas. Oh my!

Insider2 · May 8, 2019 8:42PM

@BillDugan1959 said:
I don't have any rocks but my Doctor cautions that I may be developing stones...

I gave you a LOL but wait - that's not funny.

Walt_Altmen · May 8, 2019 8:53PM

Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got

Im still Jenny from the block.

MrEureka · May 9, 2019 8:02AM

I snapped this picture at a friend’s house. Even cooler than his coins!

Insider2 · May 9, 2019 8:46AM

When I worked in NJ, every so often they would open a small open pit mine in Franklin at night and let us collect phosphorescent minerals. It was on the site of the Mineral museum. During the day the place just looked like a rocky field.

The mine museum had a room that looked just like the collection above only with bigger rocks. When the lights were on, it looked like a wall of black rubble. The colors identify the minerals.

check out: Franklin, NJ - Fluorescent Minerals Capital of the World

Hemispherical · May 9, 2019 11:09AM

@MrEureka said:
I snapped this picture at a friend’s house. Even cooler than his coins!

Isn’t there an old saying about glowing rocks and hair falling out?

Don’t know but that’s cool!

Insider2 · May 9, 2019 11:12AM

@Hemispherical said:

@MrEureka said:
I snapped this picture at a friend’s house. Even cooler than his coins!

Isn’t there an old saying about glowing rocks and hair falling out?

Don’t know but that’s cool!

The field where these minerals are found will set off a Geiger Counter!

Stuart · May 9, 2019 2:52PM

@metalmeister That appears (from your👇photo) to be a Black Tourmaline Pegmatite (Black Tourmaline Crystals in Quartz with some Feldspar).

@metalmeister said:
I used to gather river rocks on local hikes and throw them in my back sack for landscape rocks at our house. That sucker would weigh 40 lbs. when I weighed it! Here is one from farther inland.

Stuart · May 9, 2019 2:55PM

@koynekwest Hard for me to discern for certain from your👇photo whether that is Lapis Lazuli or Sodalite...🧐

@koynekwest said:
I have a small collection of stones like this-

Stuart · May 9, 2019 3:03PM

@topstuf That appears to be a piece of Picture Sandstone, although tough to discern from the photo if it’s truly a Sandstone or an Agate...

The Sandstone would have millimeter sized sedimentary transported Quartz grains, and the Agate would be cryptocrystalline (i.e. extremely fine grained) Quartz formed in place by chemical precipitation processes.

@topstuf said:
I don't know what this is but I found it in Montana.

Stuart · May 9, 2019 3:06PM

@ifthevamzarockin Is that a piece of Rhodochrosite (Mn,Fe,Mg,Ca) CO3 ?

@ifthevamzarockin said:

topstuf · May 9, 2019 3:06PM

It is awfully HEAVY for sandstone. Also very hard surface.
I was told by an amateur that it could be jasper.

I have no idea. Never saw anything like it before.

ifthevamzarockin · May 9, 2019 3:11PM

@Stuart "Is that a piece of Rhodochrosite"

I wouldn't know one rock from another. I know they are all hard if you get hit in the head with them.

Stuart · May 9, 2019 3:12PM

@leothelyon That appears to be a Concretion that may have cracked partially in half revealing the solid core “Seed Rock” that was the Nucleus of Formation, onto which the larger Concretion continued to grow via an in situ chemical precipitation process.

@leothelyon said:
My only rock puzzle aside from metal, wood or plastic puzzles I have. Perhaps an Indian child's toy? Someone went to great lengths cutting it in half or maybe someone here has an explanation. But it takes some time reassembling the pieces back together.

Leo

Stuart · May 9, 2019 4:48PM

@topstuf That makes prefect sense, since Jasper and Agate are chemically similar cryptocrystalline (i.e. extremely fine grained) Quartz formed in place by chemical precipitation processes.👍

They would both feel “Heavier” than a Sandstone, because they have minimal porosity and are therefore typically denser than a Sandstone.

@topstuf said:
It is awfully HEAVY for sandstone. Also very hard surface.
I was told by an amateur that it could be jasper.

I have no idea. Never saw anything like it before.

leothelyon · May 10, 2019 1:18AM

@Stuart said:
@leothelyon That appears to be a Concretion that may have cracked partially in half revealing the solid core “Seed Rock” that was the Nucleus of Formation, onto which the larger Concretion continued to grow via an in situ chemical precipitation process.

@leothelyon said:
My only rock puzzle aside from metal, wood or plastic puzzles I have. Perhaps an Indian child's toy? Someone went to great lengths cutting it in half or maybe someone here has an explanation. But it takes some time reassembling the pieces back together.

Leo

Awesome! I searched the name, Concretion, great answer! thank you.

Here's another if you don't mind. Is this a petrified snake?

Thanks again

Pickwickjr · May 10, 2019 6:11AM

Yale University’s Peabody Museum has an amazing rock collection and The California Gold display is breath taking. It’s worth checking out the website if you can’t make it to the museum.

WillieBoyd2 · May 15, 2019 7:55AM

Rocks and Coins:

Lava Coin

I was given this lava coin by a friend.
The coin is Italy Bronze 5 centesimi 1919, about 20 mm in diameter.
This is a souvenir probably made in 1944 during the eruption of volcano Vesuvius near Naples.

BUFFNIXX · May 17, 2019 12:24PM

My wife told me last night I have some in my head?

Batman23 · May 17, 2019 3:58PM

I pick up some rocks... every once in a while... well, kinda somewhat often...quite often actually! Is there a cure for that?

Here are a few I have found.

Batman23 · May 17, 2019 4:00PM

Not sure why they loaded in sideways!

I found these last year. Not quite sure what it is.

Paradisefound · May 18, 2019 12:10AM

Not when its a marble size

@topstuf said:

@BillDugan1959 said:
I don't have any rocks but my Doctor cautions that I may be developing stones...

Those will pass.

Anyone collect rocks?

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