Ferro-Manganese Slag
Vitreous Silicate Slag
Anthropogenic (Industrial byproduct)
Category
Mineral Like Industrial Smelting Waste
Browse mineral like industrial smelting waste specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Iron Slag
Anthropogenic Ferro-silicate
mineral
Green Slag Glass
Amorphous Silica Glass (Anthropogenic)
Industrial byproduct (often mistaken for obsidian or mineral)
Iron Slag
Vitreous glassy waste (Fe-Si-Al-Ca compounds)
Mineral byproduct (anthropogenic / techno-fossil)
Iron Slag
Anthropogenic pyrometallurgical byproduct
igneous
Cullet Glass (Industrial Slag Glass)
Amorphous Silica (SiO2) with metallic oxide impurities
Man-made byproduct (often mistaken for Obsidian or Emerald)
Green Slag Glass
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (with metallic impurities)
Igneous (Anthropogenic)
Slag (Industrial Glass)
Anthropogenic Vitreous Slag (Post-industrial byproduct)
igneous
Slag
Anthropogenic Vitrophyre (Iron or Smelting Slag)
Mineral-like byproduct
Cullet Glass (sometimes mistaken for Blue Obsidian or Slag)
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with chemical additives (e.g., Cobalt for blue color)
mineraloid / industrial byproduct
Slag (Industrial Glass/Byproduct)
Anthropogenic Vitreous Silicate
igneous (anthropogenic)
Iron Slag
Ferrous Slag (complex silicate and oxide byproduct)
industrial byproduct (anthropogenic)
Iron Slag
Iron smelting byproduct (Glassy/vesicular silicate)
anthropogenic / industrial byproduct
Slag
Anthropogenic Vitrification Product / Silicate Slag
Anthropogenic (Man-made industrial byproduct)
Iron Slag
Iron/Steel Slag (Ferrosilicate Glass)
industrial byproduct (anthropogenic material)
Slag (Industrial Glass/Metal Waste)
Artificial silicate/ferro-silicate byproduct
Mineraloid (Industrial byproduct)
Ferrous Slag
Iron/Steel Slag (Complex Calcium-Alumino-Silicates)
Anthropgenic (Industrial Byproduct)
Cullet Glass (Man-made Glass Slag)
Amorphous Silica (SiO2) with chemical additives
Mineraloid
Man-made earbud charging case (Not a rock or mineral)
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) Plastic with electronic components
Synthetic/Man-made object
Ferrous Slag (Iron Smelting By-product)
Fused Siliceous Slag
Anthropogenic Material (Man-made Rock)
Cullet Glass (Slag)
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (Man-made)
Mineraloid
Green Fluorite
Fluorite (Calcium Fluoride, CaF2)
mineral
Green Glass Slag
Amorphous Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with metal oxide impurities
mineraloid (man-made)
Bauxite
Hydrated Aluminum Oxides (primarily Gibbsite Al(OH)3, Boehmite γ-AlO(OH), and Diaspore α-AlO(OH))
sedimentary
N/A - Man-made object (Jewelry Chain)
Antiqued or Oxidized Metal Chain (often Steel or Brass)
Mineral (processed metal)
Slag (Industrial Byproduct)
Artificial silicate/iron byproduct
Mineral description (Anthropogenic material)
Banded Iron Formation (BIF)
Banded Iron Formation (Magnetite-Hematite-Chert)
sedimentary
Quartz (Engineered Quartz Surface)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) based composite
mineral (man-made composite)
Gold in Quartz
Hydrothermal Quartz with Native Gold (SiO2 with Au)
mineral
Ferrosilicon Slag (Industrial Vitrified Glass)
Vitreous Silicate Residue
Antropogenic (Man-made industrial byproduct)
Blue Glass or Slag Glass
Amorphous Silica (Anthropogenic Glass)
mineral
Iron Slag
Anthropogenic Vitreous Silicate (Byproduct of Smelting)
Mineral-like byproduct
Nickel coin (U.S. currency)
Cupronickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel alloy)
man-made alloy (metallic)
Fluorite (left), Sodalite (middle), Dumortierite/Tumbled Quartzite (right)
Calcium Fluoride (CaF2), Sodium Aluminum Silicate Chloride (Na8(Al6Si6O24)Cl2), Aluminum Borosilicate (Al7(BO3)(SiO4)3O3)
mineral
Concrete
Anthropogenic Sedimentary Conglomerate (Cement mixture: typically Ca2SiO4, Ca3SiO5, Ca3Al2O6)
sedimentary (artificial)
Cupronickel (on a 1981 Mexico 20 Pesos coin)
Copper-Nickel Alloy (Cu75Ni25)
mineral
Pegmatitic Granite
Granite with Orthoclase Feldspar and Quartz (SiO2, KAlSi3O8)
igneous
Asphalt Concrete
Bituminous Concrete / Asphaltic Composite
not a natural rock (man-made composite)
South Korean 100 Won Coin (Cupronickel)
Cupronickel Alloy (75% Cu, 25% Ni)
mineral-based alloy (anthropogenic)
Limonite (Iron Ore)
FeO(OH)·nH2O (Hydrous ferric oxide)
mineral
Fluorite (likely Fluorite on Quartz/Matrix)
Calcium Fluoride (CaF2)
mineral
Aluminum Slag
Anthropogenic Aluminum (Al)
mineral