Rock hounds question

[coy-ote]

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[CabezaBlanca]

Cryptonite!

[coy-ote]

What can any experts tell me about this I live in the sand hills east of San Antonio saw this as I was cutting our acres


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[ladrones]

Looks like pecos diamonds.

[coy-ote]

I'm pecos rich


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[Bh_liberty]

Indian love stone

[coy-ote]

My kids said dad were rich they're diamonds that was my 5 yo my 8 told him it wasn't so


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[AgBass01]

Indian love stone

I fell for that years ago. Found a beautiful red rock that was smooth as glass. Picked it up and showed it to my uncle and asked him what kind of rock it was. His response was a love stone. I bit hook line and sinker.

[Flint knapper]

Quartz Crystals that were formed in a pocket( cave like environment) by water!

Cool find!!!!

[coy-ote]

I was thinking something like that but we haven't many rocks or stones here in the sandhills and it looks like quartz with a reddish sandstone around it , I saw a glimmer just sticking out of the ground got off the mower and dug it up

[haas0311]

Either Quartz or Calcite crystals. I'm from LaVernia and have seen both. Take a piece of glass and if the crystals cuts it, it's quarts, if it doesn't, it's calcite. If you can scratch it with your fingernail, it's gypsum.


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[kyle1974]

I think it's calcite
might be quartz also, but it's hard to tell without seeing in person. just get a pocket knife and try to scratch the crystals. A knife will scratch calcite. it wont scratch quartz.

the rusted color part is just some ferrous precipitated mineral. I've found nodules lying around that have a lot of iron in them, that tend to have that reddish color.

[coy-ote]

Cool thanx guys the boys are at the age where they find all kinda precious gems everywhere we go, I thought I would ask here


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[coy-ote]

well I tried the scratch test and a knife wont do anything to it its pretty hard must be quartz

[JonBoy]

Definitely Quartz. Lots of it out in east San Antonio. I used to live in a subdivision out on the Northeast side that backed up to an old quarry...it has quartz scattered all over it.