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Identity HelpCabochon from California

29th Mar 2024 08:44 UTCLes Malakowsky

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I’m trying to identify this cabochon for a friend.  It looks like feldspar crystals in a basalt matrix.  (The turquoise is the reflection of my shirt.). She cut and polished it in California, but the slab could have been from anywhere.  Chrysanthemum stone?




Questions Answered
Can it scratch glass? : Yes
Can you scratch it with your fingernail? : No
Is it light/heavy for the size? : Normal

29th Mar 2024 14:19 UTCRichard Gibson 🌟

Try a search for "Auburn, California" porphyry
Since the photo is unsharp/blurry, I would recommend the topic starter to publish a sharp photo, which shouldn't be too hard with any modern cellphone. 
Otherwise I would recommend the management to delete the post.
Superficially seen, it might, however very unlikely, even be a Norwegian rhomben porphyry from the Oslo area.
But without a sharp photo it is basically impossible to establish what kind of rock this is.
On the other hand, this photo is suspiciously similar:

29th Mar 2024 15:45 UTCEd Clopton 🌟 Expert

Even in a blurry photo this looks like the popular lapidary material marketed as "Chinese writing rock" (who thinks up these names?).  One Internet page I found by searching on that name states that the original source for the material was/is Auburn, California as Richard suggests, and that other sources are in Nevada and Australia.  Similar material may well come from other places as well.

In any case it's a porphyry with sharp, tabular crystals of light-colored feldspar individually and in clusters in a black basaltic (maybe dacitic) matrix.  In the one specimen I have, most (maybe all) of the feldspar appears to be twinned on the Carlsbad law.  I have seen a number of objects made from it over the years, but until now I had not looked into where it comes from.
Yes, but a blurry photo cannot possibly give us information about what the brown matrix is composed of. Is it igneous or metamorphic?

Agreed, in this case it "seems" obvious. But that is not the way science should work.

2nd Apr 2024 17:24 UTCLes Malakowsky

Thank you everyone for replying, even though the photo is out of focus.  Your information will be very helpful.  My friend is a lapidary hobbyist, and she will be happy to call her cab "Chinese Writing Stone".  

2nd Apr 2024 18:47 UTCAlfredo Petrov Manager

Here's one I found myself in Germany: https://www.mindat.org/loc-252706.html
I think you'll find it pretty widespread in many countries around the world.
 
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