Crackle Agate / Dyed Quartz
SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide)
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Browse mineral (man made glass, not natural) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Crackle Agate / Dyed Quartz
SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide)
Sea Glass
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (Man-made glass weathered by nature)
Concrete Paver (Artificial Cementitious Rock)
Hydrated Portland Cement Aggregate
Aqua Aura Quartz
Titanium/Gold-coated Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Green Sea Glass
Man-made vitreous material (silica glass)
Goldstone (Red)
Aventurine Glass (SiO2 + Cu)
Dyed Imperial Jasper (Sea Sediment Jasper)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - Impure Quartz/Chalcedony
Engineerged Quartz (Quartz Composite)
SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide) in a polymer resin matrix
Goldstone (likely red/brown aventurine glass)
Man-made aventurine glass; copper-bearing silicate glass (not a natural mineral)
Concrete
Anthropogenic Conglomerate
Blue-dyed tumbled quartz or glass imitation
Quartz (SiO₂), appearance possibly enhanced with blue dye; identity uncertain from image
Titanium Aura Quartz
Titanium-coated Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Slag Glass
Anthropogenic Amorphous Silicon Dioxide
Polished black pebble, possibly obsidian
Volcanic glass (obsidian), likely; identification is tentative from the image
Cullet Glass (Slag Glass)
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (Industrial byproduct)
Man-made Glass (Tumbled/Shaped)
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with metal oxide colorants
Sea Glass
Silicon dioxide (mostly)
Cherry Quartz
SiO2 (Silicon Dioxide with iron-rich inclusions/dye)
Green sea glass (likely slag glass or bottle glass)
Man-made soda-lime silicate glass; not a naturally occurring mineral
Dyed or synthetic turquoise-blue glass-like specimen
Likely man-made colored glass or resin; exact identification requires testing
Black Obsidian
Amorphous volcanic glass (SiO2 + impurities)
Strawberry Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with Hematite/Goethite inclusions
Polished black pebble, likely basalt
Basalt, a fine-grained mafic volcanic rock composed mainly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene, commonly with olivine
Diamond
Native Carbon (C)
Crackled Quartz (Dyed)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Libyan Desert Glass
Libyan Desert Glass (SiO2 with trace elements)
Opalite
Synthetic Glass (Hydrated Crystalline Silicon Dioxide simulation)
Asphalt Concrete
Bituminous Concrete
Obsidian (Blue)
Volcanic Glass (SiO2)
Blue Sapphire (Synthetic or Man-made Glass Imitation)
Corundum (Al2O3) if natural; Lead-glass or Spinal if synthetic
Blue sea glass or blue glassy mineral fragment
Uncertain; likely man-made soda-lime glass, not a natural mineral
Green obsidian (likely molded or heat-treated glass-like specimen)
Volcanic glass; predominantly rhyolitic composition (silica-rich amorphous SiO₂)
Aura Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with metallic vapor coating
Blue glassy fragment among beach gravel
Likely cobalt-blue man-made glass; not a natural mineral specimen
Rock crystal quartz fragments
Quartz (silicon dioxide, SiO₂)
Chakra Stone Tower (Composite Multi-Mineral)
Crystalline Silicon Dioxide composite (SiO2) with various inclusions
Opalite
Synthetic Opalised Glass
Green Glass (often marketed as 'Obsidian' or 'Green Quartz')
Amorphous Silica (SiO2) with copper or chromium additives
Tumbled milky quartz pebble
Quartz (silicon dioxide, SiO₂), likely milky quartz
Blue goldstone
Man-made aventurine glass containing metallic copper particles; not a natural mineral
Blue glassy tumbled stone, likely blue chalcedony or slag glass
Chalcedony (microcrystalline SiO₂), possibly man-made blue glass
Mystic Topaz
Aluminum Silicate Fluoride Hydroxide (Al2SiO4(F,OH)2) with metallic film coating