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kozman noticing nice landscape pebbles Member since July 2020 Posts: 83	Type of rock Jan 12, 2021 11:47:35 GMT -5 jasoninsd likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kozman on Jan 12, 2021 11:47:35 GMT -5 Can someone id this rock. From my father's vacation trips box. Most likely from the state of Wisconsin. He did go to South Dakota once

rmf fully equipped rock polisher Member since November 2017 Posts: 1,878	Type of rock Jan 12, 2021 13:08:34 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rmf on Jan 12, 2021 13:08:34 GMT -5 kozman Based on pic, and assuming WI, I would guess Red Jasper with Hematite. If you have a saw and slice it it may give a better ID. It sould take a good polish tumbled or cabbed.

jasoninsd can identify rocks - even green ones I Wish I Knew Half The Stuff I Thought I Knew 30 Years Ago! Member since July 2020 Posts: 18,363	Type of rock Jan 12, 2021 21:36:41 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jasoninsd on Jan 12, 2021 21:36:41 GMT -5 We have a lot of Red Jasper very similar to that here in western South Dakota. Sometimes I'll find fortifications on the exterior making it seem like a Fairburn Signer (not a Fairburn Agate).
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kozman noticing nice landscape pebbles Member since July 2020 Posts: 83	Type of rock Jan 15, 2021 19:34:07 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kozman on Jan 15, 2021 19:34:07 GMT -5 I only have a dremel. Might try to dremel it as deep as i can around the rock the hammer a chisel to it.

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Post by jasoninsd on Jan 16, 2021 12:57:11 GMT -5

Jan 15, 2021 19:34:07 GMT -5 kozman said:

I only have a dremel. Might try to dremel it as deep as i can around the rock the hammer a chisel to it.

If you do open it up, I'd be curios to see the innards. In the similar looking material I find around here, oftentimes it has quartz pockets inside...

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"It always seems impossible until it is done." - Nelson Mandela
"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." - Robert Brault
"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy." - Nightbirde (RIP 2/19/22)

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kozman noticing nice landscape pebbles Member since July 2020 Posts: 83	Type of rock Jan 16, 2021 14:36:37 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kozman on Jan 16, 2021 14:36:37 GMT -5 This is best i could break it open. Break is 3" wide 2" tall.

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