Low Luster Chert? Or Am I Dull?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2023
- Howdy Peeps, got a cool one for you to check out! Is it Chert? But so dull and non-shiny, it's not rough, but far from slimy! Where is the Waxy? Did it all run? I am of two minds here; can you help me put things together?
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@@MrChubbyHubby. YOU THE BEST!!!😊😊
Maybe. I don’t know too much about rocks. Thank you for sharing and God bless❤️🙏🇺🇸
Hi there JudymaeCollins, me either sometimes, but I'm learning. Thank you for stopping by and God bless you as well.
It's cool!
Not as cool as you for stopping by PretirementDays, thank you.
Awesome 🧲⚓️👍
Thank you for stopping by.
*Hello, I'm your 6th Thumbs up. I don't know anything about rocks. I remember i had a teacher one year that use to show us his polished rocks he use to do. I have a few heart shaped rocks i think are neat that I've found. 😍😍😍* Sharon in SC
Hello there Connections and thank you for the view and the like and the nice comment, I hope you find more heart shaped rocks on your journey's.
Definitely looks like Chert but many Cherts can take a good polish and some of them don't. Good luck and that was a good guess! Spot on!
Hi there largent45, it's a weird specimen as far as luster, I do find chert with areas of a white dull color, but it is soft and my knife cuts it easily, this stuff has gray streaks from the blade, so it's hard for sure. Thank you and I hope you are well my friend.
Very neat
Hi there Nic's Coins and thank you, You are super neat too my friend.
Amazing 👍👍👍
I thank you Leuser Stone Channel, and hope you are well.
Perhaps
Acceptable.
I don't like my cherts to be too flashy or shiny, unless I'm going out on the town, dancing, clubbing, or generally painting the town red.
👠LOL. Bet you strut those flashy, shiny cherts. Hope your stilettos match your cherts & accessories. Is a pic too much to ask?
Howdy there Mr. Bear, I hear you there, you are a subdude dude for your around the house chert, but when out and about it's the Waxy to the maxi.
That cherty puzzle fits together beautifully! Did it snap into place?
Did you do a scratch test? I think chert can lose its luster when exposed to the elements. If there's a fresh little break in a conchoidal fracture, I imagine it should have a more lustful, cherty lustrous appearance in that fresh circular type of cleavage area.
I could be wrong. It happens way too often. 🤷
RMB this here rock has been a puzzle to me and continues to be. When scratched with my knife a gray streak is left behind, the fracture that broke was very tight, but it could have been enough to expose it, but it was tight so...? I could crack it open and see, and I might, but it is kind of cool to have as an example or specimen, at least till I find more, then it's hammer time! The funny thing is, when I got into this whole rock thing I thought, well at least all the facts should be in, they have been around for all this time, LOL.
Looks similar to some i have and believe ta be chert. Keep um coming!😀
Howdy there 40th & Plum Engineering, thank you and I will do my best my friend.
That's what I like about breaking rocks open...you can usually put them back together and act like superman or something. I'll have to find one that's not too dirty.
Howdy there B2, I will keep my eyes open for you, you could also use a square green rock, I will see what I can do. I hope you are doing well, thanks for stopping by my Frog Guy.
Awesome 😊👍 Greetings
Thank you Kreator, I hope your travels are going well.
needs heat treat at 400 for 4 hrs cooling down slow. must be ramped up to 400 slowly 150 by 50 each 30 mins allowing center of stone to catch up otherwise pop boom same with the end process
Hey there Pete Peterson, so after all this heating and cooling what do I get? Will this restore my lost luster? Please let me know and thanks for stopping by.
It looks like a pale Chert to me. I think of it being more honey colored but that doesn’t mean anything.
Got some cool North Dakota Needle River baby (blueberry sized) agates, cut them all open today and found some awesome little druzies.
Hi there Secret Cottage Studios, and you are right, we have what we call peanut butter chert which does have that color, or there abouts. The color can vary a lot, I find it from off white to grey to black, yellow ish, I recently found a piece that I am almost certain is chert, and it has purple/maroon bands, so yeah, it is neat stuff. Those baby agates sound cool as, pics or video?
No idea what it could be but chert is as good a guess as any. Really wish I had taken some geology classes in college.
Hi there Soul_Adventurist, I am going with chert for now, the color is spot on to a lot of the stuff I find and when scratched with my knife it leaves a gray streak of metal. Thank you for stopping by.
Hey chubby looks cherty 😊
Howdy there Al Gold and thank you for your cheerful cherty chat!
@@MrChubbyHubby. we will chat soon.👍😀
Yes I think it could be chert.
Might be worth putting in the tumbler.
Do a scratch test.
Hi there Nicola Gray, I might, not sure yet, thinking I may keep it as an unusual specimen. And my knife leaves a gray streak on all surfaces, so pretty darn hard I think.
Dull looking but still quite interesting 😁
Thank you Peeps for stopping by, I will try to be less dull in the next one.
@@MrChubbyHubby. Wait, YOU'RE interesting! Was talking about the chert's appearance 😂
Mystery Rock did it come from a rock band !? Lol love ya brudder
Howdy Brudder Awwsome, love you too my friend and hope all is well.
@@MrChubbyHubby. 🤜🤛
It is dull but tumbling it should reveal it's true color sort of speak 😊
Hi there Up North Adventures, I wonder if the lack of waxy sheen is due to weathering? We will see, although I may just keep it as a specimen because it looks so odd. Thank you for stopping by.
G'day my brother Hubby 🍻❤️ yepp it's definitely looks like Dinosaur Chert LoL CHeerS Mate 🍻🧉
LOL and G'Day Mate, and while your comment is gneiss, you may be full of schist, but I would never take you for granite my friend.
It almost looks like volcanic ash that was put under high pressure. It looks igneous to me, but that's just from what I see on camera.
Hey there G&P Coins and thank you, there is a material called Tuff, it has a similar appearance, but (and here I blame myself for not doing one on camera) it is hard, when scratched with my folding knife it leaves a gray streak of metal on the rock, whereas tuff is not that tough, LOL. I hope you have been well my friend, and thank you.
@@MrChubbyHubby. I have been doing OK Brother! I hope that you and yours are great.
@@gpcoins539 It's been an interesting time recently, but we are well, thank you Brother.
Hey Mr, where about are you? I’m on the far lower west
Not so sure it is chert. I do not see conchoidal fractures that are found with micro crystalline quartzes. Would be interstate where it was found. Looks similar to tuff. Also looks like maybe a limestone? Did you scratch test with a knife?
Hey there Fayde and thank you for the info. After reading your comment the following steps occurred. I checked my MI rocks & minerals book by the Lynch's and found nothing, next I went to my Audubon north American field guide and found it! and looking at Plate # 707 it does look similar, and reading the description the colors do match, but on this piece when I scratch it with my knife blade it does leave a mark, a gray one from the steel, and that is on all surfaces, even the outer grayish white stuff that I thought would be "host rock" also, while this piece does not have a waxy appearance it is smooth, not gritty. The problem I then had was doing a google search to see if we have tuff in MI and could not confirm that, although I did find mention of volcanic rock, but it mostly seems to be in the U.P., but A. it's a google search, lol and B. we did have those glaciers, so... And lastly to my eye this does show some conchoidal fractures, I think I still need to do more work on my setup with lighting and such, this was found right here in northern MI along a dirt road, some of the rocks are fill they use for repair, but the quarry I am almost sure they come from is less than 10 miles from this site. Sorry for all the reading my friend, let me know if this answers your questions, and if you have any follow-up ones and again thank you for the suggestion.
Yeah, doubtful to be tuff. But resembles it in appearance. My guess was a type of limestone or chert if it does fracture like arrowheads do. Sorry, I did not seen your reply my friend.
@@outdooradventureswithfayde6832 No worries Fayde, thanks for your comments and help.
So what the heck is a Chert? ...and I've been collecting rocks since I could walk, help MCH ??? Lol ??? No seriously I don't know ???
Hello there BlueMoonBee, I hope you are well my friend. So, short answer, look for a video soon about chert. Longer answer, Chert is a sedimentary rock that has turned into quartz with inclusions, and for most of the cherts that is microscopic algae and other wee critters. Flint, which is actually black Chert is chock full of algae and sparks well. Now to get confusing, LOL. One of my books says chert is grey to black, yellow to brown, the Audubon rocks and minerals guide says color is not a good way to tell, but then says red chert is jasper. And also, that the yellow/peanut butter colored chert gets its color from Limonite, which is a type of iron ore. Well, my understanding of Jasper is that it get's it's color from varying amounts of iron ore, and there is yellow jasper, plus red and green and white, so why make things confusing for an old guy! And unlike the above example a lot of chert I find has a very waxy texture and sheen to it, a dull shine. It is listed as a 7 on the MOHS hardness scale, well if regular quartz is a 7 then chert/flint is a 7+++, I have a friend who recently finished some and he said it took 2 months in stage 1! I tried posting links here BMB but it won't let me, if you go to City Rockhounding he has a recent video titled "Finished Tumbling Some Railroad Chert, Wow" and also, he sent me some and you can see that in "An Awesome UnBoxing Thank You City Rockhounding" on my channel. I hope this helps more than confuses BlueMoonBee, if you need any clarification, please let me know and thank you for being awesome!
@@MrChubbyHubby. Thanks that helps alot and I appreciate the in-depth explanation. I felt silly that I didnt know what it was because I had heard the term before. Gtsy and hope to see you again... L&L 2U MCH 💙