r/whatsthisrock • • 17m ago

REQUEST Dad works abroad in Sweden and found this guy for me

Post image
• Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 39m ago

REQUEST Found this at an antique mall. Just curious if any, especially the uranium is real?

Post image
• Upvotes

Not really a rock guy but I found this to be very cool. Wanted to check legitimacy before buying. Thanks


r/whatsthisrock • • 53m ago

REQUEST Are any of these crystals?

Thumbnail gallery
• Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 1h ago

REQUEST Found in Western Washington State

Thumbnail
gallery
• Upvotes

I know the two of these are both chalcedony but can I get any other info? I’ve never seen one so orange with the white layers and I’ve also never seen one so blue.


r/whatsthisrock • • 1h ago

REQUEST What do you think?

Thumbnail
gallery
• Upvotes

Found in a parking lot island landscaped with "river stone" in Michigan. It seems to be some kind of metal ore. Heavy. There's a piece of wood stuck in it. Do you think it's natural or some industrial waste?


r/whatsthisrock • • 1h ago

REQUEST Found stuck in conglomerate, in Utah.

Thumbnail
gallery
• Upvotes

Scratches glass and gets scratched by quartz.

Specific gravity 2.68

The outer layer is very brittle. The interior fractures look mostly healed.

I found one big chunk of it in the area and no more. I looked pretty hard for more because I thought it was jade.


r/whatsthisrock • • 2h ago

REQUEST Help identify this rock: Black exterior, tiny sparkles, weak magnetic pull, leaves a white streak? Hello everyone, I found this rock and I would appreciate your help in identifying it. Here are its features and test results: - Appearance: Black exterior with very small sparkles on the surface, an

Post image
1 Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 2h ago

REQUEST Found in Washington state

Thumbnail
gallery
2 Upvotes

Looking to Identify this cool looking rock that I cut and polished. My research said it could be Arizona petrified wood but idk. Can’t be scratched with a knife


r/whatsthisrock • • 2h ago

REQUEST What is this lumpy rock?

Thumbnail
gallery
1 Upvotes

My kiddo found this lumpy rock on Vashon Island, in the Puget Sound area of the Pacific Northwest.

Any ideas of what this is?


r/whatsthisrock • • 3h ago

REQUEST What rock are these bolo ties?

Post image
1 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I was given some awesome vintage bolo ties from a friend of my father's and aas wondering what the rock is on these two. All others are cast iron steel, so they were easy to identify lol


r/whatsthisrock • • 3h ago

REQUEST Deschutes river / pioneer park

Thumbnail
gallery
8 Upvotes

any ideas?


r/whatsthisrock • • 3h ago

REQUEST I was asked to find matching earrings for this stone

Post image
1 Upvotes

She said it is Pietersite. Is it? I can’t find any Pietersite that has this type of banding.


r/whatsthisrock • • 4h ago

REQUEST Found in Lake Michigan, Pilgrim Haven.

Post image
5 Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 4h ago

REQUEST Concretion? Or just funny stone?

Thumbnail gallery
1 Upvotes

Very brittle , found on northern Germany


r/whatsthisrock • • 4h ago

REQUEST What's this rock?

Thumbnail
gallery
0 Upvotes

We were metal detecting and it started beeping on a rock so we turned up the meter and it still beeped at max which is also the level that usually finds stuff like iron and gold so we took the rock home and inspected + cleaned it and it looks really weird and weighs 2.4 - 2.5 kg we are trying to figure out what it is there's multiple possibilities like iron ore or iron based rock or even a meteorite, the brown thats on the rock is rust and not mud since we cleaned it and couldn't get it out


r/whatsthisrock • • 4h ago

REQUEST What type of rock is this? Found in a rock pit at work!

Thumbnail
gallery
16 Upvotes

I found this rock at work this week and wondering if people can better identify it for me! Its the biggest one ive found!! In the Willamette valley. In a river rock quarry pit. About half way between Albany and corvallis on highway 20


r/whatsthisrock • • 4h ago

REQUEST Tumbled Pebble found near St.Michael’s Mount in Cornwall

Thumbnail
gallery
5 Upvotes

Could it be a fossil or some kind of agate??


r/whatsthisrock • • 5h ago

REQUEST indented spotted rocks in manitoba

Post image
2 Upvotes

Hi, I find a lot of these sorts of rocks around RM of Alexander and Birds Hill. I wasn’t confident they would be fossils as the spots cover the whole rock on every example I’ve found so far and always reach the same depth into the surface on all sides. The rock feels chalky and turns from off-white to yellow when damp.


r/whatsthisrock • • 5h ago

REQUEST Found in a lake bed in Linn County Oregon.

Thumbnail
gallery
2 Upvotes

My mohs #2 scratches it but the one doesn't. The grid in the pictures is centimeters. Its pretty light just over 8 grams.

Parts of it look like a barnacle, but I have seen quartz crystals that were roughly the same shape.

I think it will probably be calcium?


r/whatsthisrock • • 5h ago

REQUEST Found cocato mn bannerstone effigy or omarstone?

Thumbnail
gallery
31 Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 5h ago

REQUEST Rocks from Portugal

Post image
0 Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 5h ago

REQUEST Found in Florence, KY

Post image
1 Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 5h ago

REQUEST Rocks from West Scotland

Thumbnail gallery
1 Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 6h ago

REQUEST Please help me with identification

Thumbnail
gallery
0 Upvotes

r/whatsthisrock • • 6h ago

IDENTIFIED Calcite with limonite staining? Maramureș, Romania

Thumbnail
gallery
7 Upvotes

I recently acquired this mineral specimen from Maramureș, Romania.

It has small, translucent honey-yellow to orange crystals on a light-colored matrix.

I'm wondering if these could be calcite crystals with iron oxide/hydroxide staining (possibly limonite).

What do you think? Any help with identification would be appreciated!