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[John Robinson]

I do not know what these are
Please forgive the camera work I have a lot to learn about focusing


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[captbob]

Red rounds in the 2nd picture look to be red horn coral.

[Slabbercabber]

The third one looks like graveyard point.  I suspect your camera is too close to the subject for the lens.

[John Robinson]

Thanks for your patience with my poor camera work
Attached are four more cabs that I will probably keep in my collection but it would be nice to know what they are so I could buy more of the rough of that type
One looks like really good moss agate
One is green and purple quart(?)
One is agate and intrusion (rutile?)
One is some variety of tigers eye

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[John Robinson]

I uploaded Wrong picture of moss agate and the compression software I am using is adding distortion
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[rocks2dust]

You might check your camera instructions to find whether there is a "Macro" mode (helps a lot when trying to focus close-up).

I agree with Horn Coral. The nice plume agate may be Graveyard Point, but there are several locations with similar white plumes (Stinkingwater, Lebannon, and others).

From the next 4:
Agree, first looks like really nice moss agate (could be from a thunderegg or top layer of some deposits like Maury Mt.
The "moss" agate looks like it has a metallic sheen, in which case it is marcasite in agate
The green and purple may be fluorite, rather than quartz
The one you suspect is tigers eye may instead be sheen obsidian

[hummingbirdstones]

Try taking your picture farther away instead of trying to get a closeup of the stone.  Unless you have a macro mode on your camera like rocks2dust suggested or you have a macro lens, you will never get an in focus picture.  Once you have a picture that is in focus, use your software to crop close around just the cab.  Once you do that, it will look like it's a close up.

[John Robinson]

Thanks I will need to begin to check hardness as well learn how to take better photos. I did not know there was such a thing as Sheen Obsidian

[irockhound]

The first pic is likely Sagenite Agate and looks like some classic Nipomo, CA material.  Also your updated "moss Agate cab appears to be Marcasite Agate, also a classic Nipomo material, the spots should appear as a goldish metallic.