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RunningRiot
February 10th, 2006, 01:13 AM
Hiya everyone. ^_^; I was wondering if someone could help me with IDing this certain stone I found, I'll start with a description but I'll have pictures soon.

I live in a fairly populated city, but behind my neighborhood there is wooded area with a large field and a long, gravel-like (unpaved and natural gravel) road that leads to a rock cory, which is a large cliff of stones with a big pond in the center. Anyway in the field and on the way there, amongst the pretty normal light-grey colored rocks there are odd pink ones that stand out here and there. They're slightly rounded and upon closer inspection seem slightly darker, but they are noticably pink. When broken in half the inside is very crystal-like but not transparent with a little tinge of white and very shiney pink. The stones (before broken) can fit comfortably into a palm and I've never seen on bigger than a fist. The ones that're slightly burried or under the ground are bigger and some are a little jagged, but you have to look sort of hard to find those. I'm sure no one's layed these rocks there on purpose because it's a previously undeveloped site, though it is owned, it is rarely visited by the owners and they are making major construction over the thing (building houses and what-not), so I don't really see any reason to lay pink stones when concrete and normal gravel works fine.

I thought it was rose quartz, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?

CzechWoods
February 10th, 2006, 02:38 PM
Hiya everyone. ^_^; I was wondering if someone could help me with IDing this certain stone I found, I'll start with a description but I'll have pictures soon.

I live in a fairly populated city, but behind my neighborhood there is wooded area with a large field and a long, gravel-like (unpaved and natural gravel) road that leads to a rock cory, which is a large cliff of stones with a big pond in the center. Anyway in the field and on the way there, amongst the pretty normal light-grey colored rocks there are odd pink ones that stand out here and there. They're slightly rounded and upon closer inspection seem slightly darker, but they are noticably pink. When broken in half the inside is very crystal-like but not transparent with a little tinge of white and very shiney pink. The stones (before broken) can fit comfortably into a palm and I've never seen on bigger than a fist. The ones that're slightly burried or under the ground are bigger and some are a little jagged, but you have to look sort of hard to find those. I'm sure no one's layed these rocks there on purpose because it's a previously undeveloped site, though it is owned, it is rarely visited by the owners and they are making major construction over the thing (building houses and what-not), so I don't really see any reason to lay pink stones when concrete and normal gravel works fine.

I thought it was rose quartz, but I'm not sure. Any ideas?


pictures would be great and the scratch test is necessary:

when you scratch it with a clear crystal poiunt, does it leave a mark?

i suspect calcite or some form of granite/marble, possibly with feldspare

RunningRiot
February 10th, 2006, 03:49 PM
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/saeroarian/lia.jpg

There we go! :lol: If it's not rose quartz could you tell me the magical properties of it? I'm not familiare with the name you mentioned.

I don't have any clear crystal points, but when I scratch it with my nail it leaves a white mark.

Pesha
February 10th, 2006, 07:56 PM
Looks like pink Granite to me. With maybe some quartz mixed in.

Pretty pink.

CzechWoods
February 10th, 2006, 08:56 PM
if you can scratch it with a finger nail it cannot be quartz and even calcite is not likely. it is more probable that it is a form of gypsum or another mineral / conglomerate that has moss hardness 2 or less

anyway, pink stones can be used for the heart cjhakra, the ehaling of emotions

RunningRiot
February 10th, 2006, 10:13 PM
Thanks you two. ^^

The white mark is hardly noticable, you have to use a glass to see it (I had my glasses on).

CzechWoods
February 11th, 2006, 01:51 AM
see, the same hardness does not scratch each other at all.

try to use a pocket knife.

if it leaves a mark, it is 5 or softer
than you would repeat it with your finger nail
finfger nails dont scratch calites usually

not at all that is, you see.

so if it leaves a tiny scratch it means the finger nail is harder, the stone softer.

Copperaven
February 11th, 2006, 02:35 PM
make sure that what you are seeing is indeed a scratch and not rub off from what you tested it with, that is the most common mistake people make when learning how to do a scratch test

could you provide a closer view of the broken piece? that way we could see the inside better