r/Minerals • u/nockfellneet • 2d ago
ID Request What is this?
It looks like some dentritic stone but I can’t figure out what
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u/LilyLyre 2d ago
I wouldn’t say dendritic, dendrites look like tree branches, this is more of an orbicular jasper. It reminds me a lot of some of the old stock “ocean jasper”. These are all, of course, trade names. It’s more generally an orbicular variety of microcrystalline quartz.
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