What's My Rock? #6 - a rock identification show

[@mudfossiluniversity]

Completely LOST hahaha

[@tectonic_city]

Roger, you have an open invitation to appear on the show. As per our email exchange, I understand you can't travel to California from Connecticut, but you can mail me a small rock that you claim is biological and I'd be happy to take a look at it and we'll do a Zoom episode about it. You'll be treated with the same respect I give every guest.

[@PEACErocksandgarden]

FINALLY a decent sample to play with not meteorite claims. Thanks!

[@tectonic_city]

I find it refreshing, too. 2/3 of the time people contact geology profs because think they have a meteorite, so it's fun to examine something else for variety

[@sarahb.6475]

​@@tectonic_cityit makes no sense to me at all - that people think they find meteorites. The odds of finding one must be astronomical! Like 1 in a trillion? Or even higher ( but no idea what number comes after trillion). Unless it falls through the roof of your house ( and even then it may be junk that belongs to NASA etc) its probably some earth based rock. Igneous or metamorphic.

[@clintstoner13680]

Easily my favorite and most comprehensive rock identification channel on KZbin. Amazing as usual

[@tectonic_city]

Appreciate that

[@SWOProspecting]

I just found your channel, really happy I did! Fun Stuff

[@ShellyRiggs-vc4mq]

❤omg I love this ., I’d so love to come talk with him on a show or otherwise . I am such a huge rock, and the hardest part would be picking which one of my fabulous rocks to bring🎉

[@ShellyRiggs-vc4mq]

💞💞💞💞❤️‍🔥💓❣️💖💗💓❤️‍🔥🩷🩷🩷💚💙

[@tectonic_city]

you're welcome as a guest on the show, email [e-mail]. in-person in Southern California or via Zoom if you mail me a sample

[@baTonkaTruck]

This is awesome, great to walk with you through each step of identification.

[@tectonic_city]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@JulesTools23]

Grateful KZbin recommended this today, shortly after delving back further into my lifelong passion for gems, rocks and minerals. I found your two guest’s to be knowledgeable and informative, and happy you did not offer up the location found. Let us protect these places in my native state from those that would exploit the areas! Thank you for this opportunity to learn more about my beloved home Southern California. At the age of retirement, an experience of heart failure has confined me to our high desert home, for now. But I would absolutely love to join your upcoming mineral classes! Is this an in person only class? Look forward to watching other episodes of What’s My Rock, and possibly joining you in person sometime soon 🌻🤞

[@tectonic_city]

In person, hope your heart condition improves!

[@jeanniehoffman2769]

That was fun! I’ve always been fascinated by rocks and minerals, but books just don’t help me. I was right there seeing, touching and testing with you. Thank you for creating these videos.

[@tectonic_city]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adamshartley]

Glad i found your channel i know a great mine with that type of material. Probably within a 100 mile radius of you

[@tectonic_city]

yup there are quite a few cupriferous deposits in the area

[@adamshartley]

@tectonic_city i built a rock crawler jeep just to explore hard to reach places to look for rocks😆🤙

[@Muxoll-Rocks]

awesome video

[@tectonic_city]

Thanks!

[@WeareLightmusic]

Righteous ✨

[@tashacherry1480]

I MIGHT HAVE THIS IN MY GRAVEL!! It looks exactly the same as the samples on the table. I've tried finding out what it is. I'm in Michigan the copper state. A copper mineral ok what though?

[@ecks_marks_the_spot]

Just found your channel on my feed and love the concept. You definitely have an opportunity to become a favorite channel in the rockhound community. I'd love to be on your channel and hopefully present you with some actual rocks to identify. I live in San Diego & rockhound on the beach but would be willing to drive up to San Bernadino. Let me know how I can email you some pictures of the rocks that have me stumped. Thanks.

[@tectonic_city]

thanks if you want to be on the show contact me through the email in the profile

[@f33rnofish]

Hello, where could I go in NorCal to identify a rock?

[@tectonic_city]

Try your nearest college geology department

[@hussainbalti5551]

I have rough diamond 5 carate but not sure😢.I am from baltistan.

[@joecollins024]

Copper ore sums it up 😂

[@shawnieleaf2277]

I live in Cali- can I get some of my mystery rocks identified?

[@tectonic_city]

sure, email in About page

[@RamPraveshYadav-jz3ns]

Apna numbar vi bataaya. Ham log stone ka photos Bhejege..

[@kathyyosten1497]

Azurite is blue, malachite is green New Mexico malachite is copper based

[@EvilNystanet]

How can I show you my rocks from Sweden Gladhammar gruvor (happyhammer mines)? I live in sweden so it's a bit of a distance to America.

[@EvilNystanet]

Sverige (Sweden), Gladhammar gruva (Happyhammer mine), Västervik (Westbay)

[@SassyCrystals]

Could this possibly be gibbsite? Not sure what the xrf would say on gibbsite but the appearance is quite similar

[@tectonic_city]

Gibbsite is Aluminum hydroxide so can’t explain copper

[@Underground_Adventures]

Lol im always trying to figure out what kinda rock it is.

[@L_I_am515]

What about shattuckite

[@tectonic_city]

good idea! the times I've seen it, it made these radiating acicular crystals, but mindat says it can be pseudomorphic after malachite. unclear, but worth a check on SEM or XRD

[@truthbetold725]

👍👍

[@johnnynephrite6147]

Asking where did you find them is cheating. Location Location Location is EVERYTHING.

[@corringtongopro1676]

But the X-ray gun that tells you what it’s made of gets a pass? 😂

[@johnnynephrite6147]

@@corringtongopro1676 you misunderstand XRF. It tells you what elements it contains, but not which mineral it is. Its not definitive by any means.

[@corringtongopro1676]

@@johnnynephrite6147 I understand it, it was just a joke…but now that you bring it up, isn’t knowing which elements a rock is composed of more of a hint of what a mineral might be than location? 🤓

[@johnnynephrite6147]

@@corringtongopro1676 actually it might not be. you see most rocks of interest are high in silica and have differing amounts of a around a dozen other elements. Magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, just to name a few. plus traces of the metals, iron, copper, etc. Several different minerals can have the same elemental composition.

[@alex1019m]

He’s been rock hounding for 8 years and didn’t know those are Malachite and Azurite ? I knew as soon as I saw them.

[@SassyCrystals]

They're not malachite and azurite. May wanna re watch n listen to what he actually said. He said the dark mossy green inclusion in the bots was possibly malachite. They showed a pic of azurite on malachite to demonstrate the botroyidal structure, that's it. My personal opinion is maybe gibbsite but I'm not there looking at it.

[@alex1019m]

@@SassyCrystals I have a rock just like it and it's both Malachite and Azurite combined.

[@dawnburkhalter7488]

Blue Green Garnet

[@RicardoFishgang]

CHILE MENTIONED"!!!!!

[@tectonic_city]

Por la razón o la fuerza!

[@kathrynralli4557]

Wood

[@harriotteworthington3147]

Looks like chalcopyrite to me… now to watch to see how far off I am…!

[@yoyoyohihihidude]

It’s not slag?!

[@jeffp346]

OH PLEASE,... PLEASE SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THESE GUYS, BECAUSE I'VE GOT ONE THAT I'LL BET THEY WILL NOT... NOT, I SAY, BE ABLE TO TELL ME WHAT IT IS, BUT BY THE LOOKS OF IT,?...IT JUST DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S FROM... ANYWHERE AROUND HERE... SO, ..... OH PLEASE, AND THANK-YOU, IN ADVANCE. I actually accidentally found my red and white rock buried to the bright surface, from my school bus driver side window while taking a short break. I saw this..." thing" ?... sitting in front of a white picket fence next to the sidewalk, in the dirt. Only the surface was exposed, but it was so VIVID, that it just got my attention and I just knew I had to investigate it. So, I went over, stooping and finding a stick,... I touched it thinking that it was some kind of exotic slug in the dirt, but to me surprise,...it was Rick hard, so, I started to dig around it and finding it buried in there, I prayed it out.( The soil was kinda hard too so...)... I got it out and looked at the bottom of it and I tell you that the thing is burned...shiny-like, and pot-holed also, like lava, only it's so damn weird, AND, I'VE JUST GOT TO FIND OUT WHAT...IT....IS... BECAUSE I'M CONVINCED THAT IT'S FROM.... "WAY...OUT....THERE,... SOMEWHERE. PLEASE, SOMEONE LET ME KNOW ? COMMENT TO MJP PLEASE?

[@jeffp346]

.....HELP..... PLEASE.....HELP.... PLEASE. M.J.