Would you call this a good day?
Second picture, in the bottom right, you have a very fine specimen of clear quartz.
The lighter greens appear to be olivines.
Some of the reds may be very rough garnets. The others appear to be jasper.
4th picture, looks like you have a snakeskin agate in the middle of the picture.
Everything else looks like confusionite.
Without knowing the geology of where these stones came from, its impossible to rule out anything, so I am defaulting to the most common rock classifications instead of going with any gemstone descriptors.
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I see some shiny black ones that could be Obsidian. The most interesting to me is the light blue one in the last picture. It is kind of dusty looking, not shiny, so it could be Turquoise. That is all very speculative, though. You would have to do tests on them to find out definitively.
there’s a large collection of unrelated or seemingly unrelated stones in the mix. rlynch’s post about the locale geology is important, assuming they came from the same place. One of the larger dark stones with green phenocrysts looks like a basalt with olivine, which would make it picritic. Some of the smaller stones with a lot of holes could also be volcanic… vesiculated lava pieces. many of the others could be quartz stone of various sorts. Hard to believe they could have come from the same source locale…more info about where they came from, or whether it’s a mix of rocks from multiple locations would be one of the first steps in sorting them out. what lottied said about obsidian could also be tachylite if basaltic… quartz and basalts are not usually found together, so I am assuming they the rocks have different sources.
by quartz, i meant generic… rocks with high silica content including rhyolite, jaspers, agate, chalecedony.
I see lots of pretty rocks. Pretty worthless, as well…
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have to agree on value… not worth much at all. plain old pretty rocks
I love the "confusionite