Can anyone ID this?

[tseger]

The man I got this from said it was black quartz. I have no idea. I have searched the internet, but I couldn't determine what it is. I found a smokey quartz that looked alot like it. Any stone experts that can tell me what this is?
Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[rjwolfe3]

Looks like a rock! Glad I could help.:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[Wheaties]

Looks like a rock! Glad I could help.:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Let me be more specific... it's a BLACK rock. Jeez Rob. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:


Very cool though. What are you going to do with it?

 

[shepardscross]

Might be Smokey quartz but could also be Obsidian. Where did he say that he got it?

 

[Sberger]

Lava?

 

[USAFVET98]

Its the meteor (space poop) from Joe Dirt?

 

[tseger]

Looks like a rock! Glad I could help.:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Let me be more specific... it's a BLACK rock. Jeez Rob. :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:


Ya'll aint no help at all, Someone asked about how it chipped, so i went and took a hammer to it (just a tiny piece off a corner)

 

[seawolf]

It looks like obsidian. If the edges are almost razor sharp it most likely is. Polishes out very well but it might be a little hard to make a pen from. Check for lapidary shops in your area they can tell you for sure.
Mark

 

[shepardscross]

Definitely looks like obsidian with the way it chipped like that. I would like to know where he got such a big piece of it.

 

[JerrySambrook]

Could also be low sulfer coal

 

[NewLondon88]

In the first pic, I was sure that Ratty had been in a fire on his way somewhere..

 

[Oldgreybear]

It looks like obsidian, but if it contains any crystals it is not.

Link to quartz and obsidian

http://www.galleries.com/minerals/MINERALO/OBSIDIAN/obsidian.htm
http://www.galleries.com/minerals/gemstone/smoky_qu/smoky_qu.htm

 

[hunter-27]

Oh, sorry I thought you were looking for a stoned expert.

 

[jthompson1995]

I don't think it looks like obsidian unless it has a bunch of inclusions in it. Obsidian will break with a conchoidal fracture like glass will and will be much smoother on the fractured faces if it is pure obsidian, not with many small, jagged faces like you show in the photo.

Unfortunately I can't give you much direction in what it actually is, sorry.

 

[khogan16]

if it is Obsidian It would be razor sharp but it doesn't quite look like it.

 

[desertrat]

Kinda looks like an Indian Love Stone

 

[tseger]

Thanks for all the suggestions and links, I'm still reading all the links. I don't know if this gives a clue or not, but when I was chipping the pieces off, I had to really hit it pretty hard to get it to chip off and there was a small amount of a glittery looking powder from the pounding. also the pics seem to have more of a brown tint to them compared to looking at the piece. Looking at it, it looks jet black, until you look real close, then it looks like a field of black with brown streaks through it. The pics were taken in direct sunlight, I think I'll set up the studio lighting and see if the pics look the same.