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Browse man made material (jewelry, metal alloy) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Gold Nugget
Native Gold (Au)
Gold Nugget (Placer Gold)
Native Gold (Au)
Quartz (in a rock matrix)
Quartz (SiO2)
Pyrope Garnet
Magnesium aluminum silicate (Mg3Al2Si3O12)
Native Gold (in Jewelry form)
Gold (Au)
Black Tourmaline
Schorl (NaFe3Al6(BO3)3Si6O18(OH)4)
Gold Nugget
Native Gold (Au)
Pyrite
Iron Disulfide (FeS2)
Pyrite Geode (Sparkling Druzy)
Iron Sulfide (FeS2) in Sedimentary Nodule
Specular Hematite (Specularite)
Hematite (Iron(III) oxide) - Fe2O3
Green Aventurine
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with inclusions of Fuchsite mica
Gold Nugget
Native Gold (Au)
Pyrite
Iron Sulfide (FeS2)
Amethyst and Hematite Bracelet
Amethyst (SiO2) and Hematite (Fe2O3)
Carnelian
Carnelian (a variety of Chalcedony, which is a microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂)
Sunstone
Aventurine Feldspar ((Ca,Na)(Al,Si)4O8)
Sunstone
Aventurine Feldspar ((Ca,Na)(Al,Si)4O8)
Gold Flake (Placer Gold)
Native Gold (Au)
Native Copper within Host Rock
Native Copper (Cu)
Silicon Carbide (Carborundum)
Moissanite (SiC), though mostly synthetic
Pyrite
Iron Sulfide (FeS2)
Green Aventurine (Quartz)
SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide with Fuchsite inclusions)
Turquoise (with Hematite)
CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O
Pyrite
Iron Sulfide (FeS2)
Dendritic Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with Manganese/Iron oxide inclusions
Hematite (Iron Ore)
Hematite (alpha-Fe2O3)
Nobby Hematite (Iron Ore)
Hematite (Fe2O3)
Hematite
Iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3)
Granodiorite (foreground) and Rose Quartz (background)
Granodiorite / Quartz (SiO2)
Jasper
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Magnetite (Lodestone)
Magnetite (Fe3O4)
Pyrite in Matrix (likely Quartz or Schist matrix)
Iron Sulfide (FeS2)
Pearl
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) - mainly Aragonite and Calcite
Iron-Nickel Meteorite
Siderite (Fe, Ni)
Green Aventurine
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with inclusions (typically Fuchsite)
Green Aventurine
Silicon dioxide with Fuscite inclusions (SiO2 + K(Al,Cr)2AlSi3O10(OH)2)
Labradorite (Larvikite variety)
Feldspar (Plagioclase series), (Na,Ca)(Si,Al)4O8
Hematite
Hematite (Fe2O3)
Hematite
Iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3)
Basalt
Basalt (Mafic igneous rock)
Shungite
Non-crystalline carbon (Fullerenes / Carbon-60)
Native Gold in Quartz
Native Gold (Au)