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 Post subject: Can anyone identify this stone please?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 5:19 pm 
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Hi,

Can anyone identify this stone please?


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 Post subject: Re: Can anyone identify this stone please?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 5:38 pm 
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Based on the crust and conchoidal fracture it looks to be a cryptocrystalline quartz of some type, in the agate-jasper-chert continuum. Thr patterning has a very cherty look to it.

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At first sight it made think of an open brain ! :shock:


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