Applying to join this forum, you HAVE to activate your membership in YOUR email in the notice you recieve after completing application process. No activation on your part, no membership.

Lapidaryforum.net

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Welcome new members & old from the Lapidary/Gemstone Community Forum. Please join up. You will be approved after spam check & you must manually activate your acct with the link in your email

Congratulations to Auscarver for his Tigereye carving of Saturn!

www.lapidaryforuum.net

Another cabochon contest coming soon!

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: A nodule with red jasper-looking parts  (Read 3408 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

R.U. Sirius

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 335
  • asleep at the grinding wheel
A nodule with red jasper-looking parts
« on: November 09, 2020, 01:35:43 PM »
This is a thunderegg-like nodule of cream/brown colour on the outside, with curious red portions showing up in few spots, some of them orbicular with a pink/purple translucent central portions.

SG is ~2.6.

I ground off a small window that you can see wet in the second picture.

Does anyone recognize what this might be? Colours and the nodule form make me wonder if this might be a Willow Creek egg, but that's just wishful thinking on my part...
Logged

qtz2010

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 26
Re: A nodule with red jasper-looking parts
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2020, 03:47:22 PM »
 Teepee Canyon SDakota?

Logged

R.U. Sirius

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 335
  • asleep at the grinding wheel
Re: A nodule with red jasper-looking parts
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2020, 01:07:07 PM »
Here it goes... quite an underwhelming agate-like interior, with some bright red inclusions. The colours do resemble the Teepee Canyon material, but there is no banding apparent in this section.

I think I'll just set it aside into the "maybe some day" pile.
Logged

ileney

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 639
Re: A nodule with red jasper-looking parts
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2020, 08:28:13 AM »
Huh. It was deceptive. I expected something amazing inside.
Logged

R.U. Sirius

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 335
  • asleep at the grinding wheel
Re: A nodule with red jasper-looking parts
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2021, 07:41:16 AM »
Just bumping this up, as I noticed a similar-looking material advertised online as "Utah coprolite". Can anyone here explain how this could or could not be coprolite?
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Page created in 0.022 seconds with 30 queries.