Green glass sphere/marble
Soda-lime glass (primarily SiO2, Na2O, CaO)
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Green glass sphere/marble
Soda-lime glass (primarily SiO2, Na2O, CaO)
Granite with Cupules / Bedrock Mortars
Granite (felsic intrusive plutonic rock)
Cullet Glass (sometimes mistaken for Blue Obsidian or Slag)
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with chemical additives (e.g., Cobalt for blue color)
Blue Crackle Quartz (Dyed Quarzite)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with artificial dye
Dyed Blue Agate (Dragon Vein Agate)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with artificial cobalt/organic dyes
Diamond
Native Carbon (C)
Dyed Aura Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with metallic coating
Goldstone (Red)
Aventurine Glass (SiO2 + Cu)
Ferro-slag (Leland Blue/Slag Glass)
Anthropogenic Vitreous Silica (Industrial Slag)
Blue chalcedony (likely dyed or treated)
Microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂ (chalcedony)
Milky quartz (rough fragment)
Quartz, silicon dioxide (SiO₂)
Rock crystal (clear quartz), possibly cloudy quartz
Quartz, silicon dioxide (SiO₂)
Hematite
Iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3)
Blue Obsidian (Cullet Glass)
Silicon Dioxide (Amorphous Glass)
Man-made Jewelry (Metal and Glass/Plastic)
Synthetic Alloy and Amorphous Solid (SiO2/Polymer)
Red-orange jasper pebble (tentative)
Microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂, colored mainly by iron oxides
Tumbled milky chalcedony (likely common opalite-like quartz)
Chalcedony, microcrystalline SiO₂; possibly pale common opal, hydrated SiO₂·nH₂O
Colorless quartz crystal (likely quartz fragment)
Quartz, silicon dioxide (SiO₂)
Polymictic conglomerate or breccia (possibly concrete-like aggregate)
Lithified polymictic gravel; clasts may include basalt, granite, quartzite, and other silicates
Opalite
Synthetic glass (SiO2 + metal additions)
Opalite
Synthetic Opalised Glass
Carborundum
Silicon Carbide (SiC)
Carborundum (Silicon Carbide)
Silicon Carbide (SiC) / Moissanite (natural form)
Metallic sulfide mineral fragment, likely galena
Galena (lead sulfide, PbS), tentative identification
Cullet (Slag Glass)
Amorphous Silica (Industrial byproduct)
Raw quartz crystal
Quartz (silicon dioxide, SiO₂), likely milky or included quartz
Obsidian (likely black volcanic glass)
Obsidian; primarily amorphous volcanic silica glass, approximately SiO₂-rich rhyolitic composition
Pink Cubic Zirconia (CZ)
Zirconium Dioxide (ZrO2)
Turquoise-style beaded bracelet
Turquoise, hydrated copper–aluminum phosphate: CuAl₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₈·4H₂O; possibly dyed or composite beads
Green sea glass (likely bottle glass)
Man-made soda-lime silicate glass; not a natural mineral
Sea Glass
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (Man-made glass weathered by nature)
Green sea glass (likely bottle glass)
Man-made soda–lime silicate glass; not a natural mineral
Sea Glass
Amorphous silicon dioxide (Man-made glass weathered by nature)
Ferruginous Conglomerate (or Iron-Rich Concrete/Slag)
Clastic Sedimentary (Silicon Dioxide/Iron Oxide matrix)
Opalite-style pendant (likely synthetic glass, not natural opal)
Opalescent glass; commonly sold as “opalite” (not a recognized mineral species)
Blue Goldstone
Synthetic Avanturine Glass (or Aventurine Glass)
Tumbled black stone, likely black obsidian
Obsidian; volcanic glass, typically rhyolitic composition (SiO₂-rich)
Likely clear quartz crystal or glass-like gemstone
Quartz, silicon dioxide (SiO₂); exact identification is uncertain from the strongly magenta-lit image
Polished obsidian
Volcanic glass; predominantly rhyolitic SiO₂
Blue Apatite
Apatite (Calcium Phosphate) - Ca5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH)
Aventurine
Quartz containing inclusions of Fuchsite (SiO2 + K(Al,Cr)2AlSi3O10(OH)2)
Ferro-silicate Slag
Industrial Vitrified Slag (High-silica amorphous glass)