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Let's Rock => Identifications of Materials => Topic started by: MareWithNoName on October 16, 2019, 09:41:12 AM

Title: Awesome or leaverite?
Post by: MareWithNoName on October 16, 2019, 09:41:12 AM

Please help me with this rock. It is somewhat translucent and banded like agate, but not smooth. From bc interior. Does anyone have any ideas? Tia.

Title: Re: Awesome or leaverite?
Post by: irockhound on October 16, 2019, 05:21:26 PM

Looks more like a travertine /Onyx to me. The material appears to look very rough like calcite or a travertine / Onyx type of surface where an agate wouldn't be nearly so rough.  Both those materials would also look somewhat translucent.  A simple hardness test will give you a clue or simple taking a wing of an edge.  If the break shows any flat shiny surfaces then not Agate as Agate does not have that type of cleavage plane.

Title: Re: Awesome or leaverite?
Post by: lithicbeads on October 17, 2019, 08:38:37 AM

 The layering makes it look like travertine as does the disrupted nature of other layering.

Title: Re: Awesome or leaverite?
Post by: MareWithNoName on October 17, 2019, 03:19:36 PM

Thank you very much for your replies.