r/Rocks • u/ktfelix • Sep 26 '24

Discussion i inherited rocks!

i had a blast with this, but i know almost nothing about these rocks. any tips?

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u/thezenfisherman Sep 26 '24

Somebody loved you. Nice collection. I am not an expert but I saw a few items that were very very nice. Any classification list?

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

"oh hey do you want some rocks" is basically all she said. so... no, not at all. my boyfriend's mom (basically mother in law at this point) blows me away with the genuine love and kindness she shows me, but she always downplays it!!

she was once a practicing wiccan, very spiritual lady, one of the best people you could ever meet. (she's not dead yet, but she's decided it's time to downsize. it's kind of awesome because we're going through boxes that we would have had to go through someday in the future when she does pass. but instead she gets to tell me all of the life stories attributed to each piece in my life.)

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u/thezenfisherman Sep 30 '24

Beautiful collection. I looked at it again and wish that I had keep up my collection.

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

any tips are appreciated. i know she gave them to be because she knows ill treat them with as much respect as she would! so the more i know about what they are and how to take care of them, the better!!

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

there's still many more that i didn't lay out that don't look super special to me, but i'm guessing that probably means they're extra special. 😅

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

her actual reply to me sending her this video: "They look so happy and beautiful and bright. Thank you so much for taking them into your life, I really really appreciate it."

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u/JKDSamurai Sep 26 '24

She sounds like a treasure. So sweet and congrats on the awesome rocks!

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

national treasure, i'm convinced.

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u/onupward Sep 26 '24

Beautiful specimens and I hope they provide your space with good vibes 💖

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u/DeadCreatureHunter Sep 26 '24

I was amazed and then you kept going! Can I be in the will next?? I'd love to play with these. Also to see them with a dark background. Those agates oh my

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u/MacAneave Sep 26 '24

They are nice rocks. I just need to chime in and suggest you please use anything other than that tablecloth for display purposes. Cardboard or nothing at all would be preferable.

  • Peace and rocks for all.

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u/DatabaseThis9637 Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

Plus, still pictures would really help, so we can zoom in... and also just look at each rock and fossil. Lots of very cool stuff there! As far as the cloth, it is really distracting, hard to make out what the rocks are...

I totally understand you wanting the rocks on a piece of cloth, but... we are seeing everything for the first time, so, Everything catches the eye, and then you realize you are looking at a fabric rose, and by then the camera has moved on.

I did the same thing with some rocks and then looked at the video quite a bit later, "with fresh eyes" and realized, slower, better yet stills, on neutral background, with decent lighting... Don't worry, though! this is meant as friendly advice, Not Criticism!

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

makes total sense!

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

just because it's ugly or is there another reason? (i was just going through them today and didn't want to have them on the floor) 😋

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u/JILLofsomeTRadess Sep 26 '24

Lots of rose quartz. Great healing properties :)

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

thank you!

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u/Tarpy7297 Sep 26 '24

U are a lucky individual.

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u/Direct-Sky8695 Sep 26 '24

You got some pretty nice specimens there. Congrats.

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u/Emrys7777 Sep 26 '24

Beautiful rocks. Good rocks.

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u/1Like_Plants2 Sep 26 '24

Gorgeous collection! So fun that your MIL gets to see you enjoy them!

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u/Appr_Pro Sep 26 '24

I also collect rocks and have thought about giving them out after my passing. I am also thinking about making cards to go with them that read, “Kick rocks, fkr”.

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

that's iconic

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u/funlovngma Sep 26 '24

Beautiful collection

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u/redditonthanet Sep 26 '24

Happy for you but it should have been me 😔

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u/leeannj021255 Sep 26 '24

What fun. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

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u/BrunswickRockArts Sep 26 '24

wow, like a 'menu in my dreams'. :)

Great collection, you laid them out well. Deserve to be cherished.

Named as they appear in vid:

Pink-quartz, rhodochrosites, possible-mookaite, possible-ruby, quartz, lots of pink-quartz, maybe some halite (pink-salt), looks like a smokey-quartz-crystal-in-matrix, (bottom) tiger's eye, (above) red jaspers, (top) stone was shaped>jasper, looks like mookaite next to it, possible scenic/landscape-jasper little sphere, agate (I think this is a certain type agate), bottom-yellow looks like ocean-jasper, next to it the black looks like hawk's eye (another formation like tiger's eye, nice one!), smokey-quartz sphere, green aventurine, green jaspers (possible jade and green flourite in there if was a collection). <(that period was soo long coming!)

The blue stones: sodalite, lapis-lazuli and maybe some blue-chalcedony or blue flourite.
The slice with stripes is an agate, possible vein-agate. (grows between rock-faces as opposed to in a round-cavity, a little rarer)

Purple amethyst crystals (broken pieces of a geode), also check out chevron-quartz aka amethystine-quartz

Septarian nodule (the broken-surface one)

Quartz-agate geode below it. A nicer/rarer one as it is all in-filled (nice!)

(agates), orthoceras fossil-in-matrix

Black obsidian, flint, quartz-crystal, petrified wood

Last column of stones: blue-chalcedony, banded-carnelian, amethyst. Sphere looks like a carnelian too.

I 'pass, next question' game-showed a few of them. Great stuff.

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u/ktfelix Sep 27 '24

thank you so much! i posted a better video i think with the rest of them, maybe there are some that i under appreciated in this vid?

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u/BrunswickRockArts Sep 27 '24

I think those links covers most of them and will lead you to the others. The agate I thought 'had a name for it', I think those are infilled-septarian nodules. You have a smaller one in middle of vid and a larger one towards the end. (brown-clumps with yellowish-quartz infill).

I check out the other vid. I did have too many links in last post so I had to take a few out.

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u/ktfelix Sep 27 '24

thank you again!

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u/CowboyOfScience Sep 27 '24

"What did you get, Charlie Brown?"

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u/ktfelix Sep 27 '24

a rock!

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u/pawesome_Rex Sep 26 '24

Nice samples. Sorry for your loss if inherited means you lost someone.

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

thank you! she's still kickin'! just downsizing and decided it was time to pass it along. 😊

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u/pawesome_Rex Sep 26 '24

Good to hear you haven’t lost anyone.

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u/JILLofsomeTRadess Sep 26 '24

Wow you have so many minerals crazy awesome collection!

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u/JILLofsomeTRadess Sep 26 '24

Ypu have jasper, onyx, amethyst rose quartz, Tigers eye, malachite and several agates.

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u/ktfelix Sep 26 '24

thank you for that lead!

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u/xineez Sep 30 '24

Best inheritance!