Mineral number 8.

Rock / mineral number 12.

I DID tell the cretin that the hardness and density of the minerals is needed

6 is malachite (green bits) with maybe azurite (blue bits) or the blue-ish parts are a rock the malachite grew on.

Interesting: over time azurite turns into malachite. Now, when lapis lazuli wasn’t available artists used azurite to make blue paints. So if you have seen a classic painting with a green sky now you know why.

You have a geode that normally would have amethyst crystals in it but the color seems to have pooled in the surrounding rock.

1 could be petrified wood for all I can tell.

Number 3 could be flint and number 4 is a conglomerate—mix of bits of rock combined into a bigger rock.

Lots of striations—rock is metamorphic. Like a lot of your specimens seems to be very high in silicon.

#5 may be quartz but I only see 4 facets, not six.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 26^th, 2024 at 7:06pm:



There are 6 facets.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 26^th, 2024 at 6:50pm:



There are many pictures now of half of them.
Try and identify those ones better.

Hi bobby,

Are they, these 12 stones ?


Exodus 39:8
And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
9  It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
10  And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
11  And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
12  And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
13  And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.
14  And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 26^th, 2024 at 8:13pm:



I don't have that information.

I only have pictures.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 26^th, 2024 at 8:22pm:


I told you hardness and density are important—see Dana’s Manual of Mineralogy.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 26^th, 2024 at 8:44pm:



Nahh - maybe only $10 to  $50 range.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 26^th, 2024 at 9:00pm:



OK -
come on Monk - I'm waiting for a good geology story about the 6 rocks posted so far?

Bobby. wrote on Dec 26^th, 2024 at 9:05pm:


Hardness?

Density?

Didn’t ask for spectroscopy. I said hardness and density are needed to identify minerals.

Hardness.

Density.

Monk has rocks in his head.

The rocks in Monks head are marbles.

Marla wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 8:55am:



What has geology got to do with homosexuality?   

Have you been smoking pot?

Jasin wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 8:36am:



He has failed to impress anyone with his knowledge of geology.   

Jasin wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 9:10am:



Yes - could his BSc in geology be fake?   

And this is another example of why Goober is known as an idiot across three forums

Jasin wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 9:14am:



Yes - example - we could have had a good story of how quartz geodes form and
how they obtain their different colours etc but we got nothing. 

Smith is thinking about little boys fiddling each other.

The mind boggles.

Worse. He's thinking of little boys, like Peccary does.

Well - has Monk done enough that he deserves pictures of the other 6 rocks?

Bobby. wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 10:15am:


Those are magnified brain cells..... 

So, not denying you are a homo with ASPD anymore?

We are talking about you, gayboy with ASPD.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 10:09am:



I've told you a thousand times goober, this is not a dating site. 

Bobby. wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 12:25pm:


you trolled your own thread you dumbarse, now you're crying about it?

Jasin wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 9:14am:



Yes - example - we could have had a good story of how quartz geodes form and
how they obtain their different colours etc but we got nothing. 

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 12:28pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 12:31pm:



Occams razor says that you don't have a BSc in geology - you made it up.   



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor


In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor;
Latin: novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends
searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.

This philosophical razor advocates that when presented with competing hypotheses
about the same prediction and both hypotheses have equal explanatory power,
one should prefer the hypothesis that requires the fewest assumptions.

Monk - you were given plenty of chances to tell us something interesting -
that's all you had to do -
you even had a night to sleep on it.

A BSc graduate in geology would adore rocks and minerals and would enjoy
telling us all about it.
You didn't - instead you went on some homosexual rant and made personal attacks.

The simplest explanation is that you don't have a BSc in geology - you're a charlatan.

forgiven

namaste

The other thing is that you are not man enough to apologise.

I posted about one thing requiring a sincere apology from you. Apology not forthcoming, of course, either because you are a poof so not a real man or it is your ASPD.

https://www.fossilera.com/pages/how-do-geodes-form



Geodes are more or less spherical or egg-shaped rocks containing a hollow cavity which is lined with crystals. They form in both igneous and sedimentary rocks. There are two major steps in their formation.
A hollow cavity is formed in the rock.
Minerals precipitate out of a groundwater forming crystals on the walls of the cavity.

A Hollow Space Forms

In igneous (volcanic) rocks the hollow space is the result of a gas bubble becoming trapped inside of cooling magma. The amethyst geodes found within ancient basalt flows in Brazil & Uruguay are a good example of this.

In sedimentary rocks the hollow space is often formed by groundwater dissolving an existing structure within rock. For example in the case of Keokuk geodes from Iowa, concretions within the surrounding shale are dissolved, leaving round voids. Sometimes the cavity might form due to a fossil being dissolved or due to decaying organic matter leaving a gas pocket in the sediment.


Formation Of Crystals


In the second stage of geode formation, minerals are deposited on the walls of the cavity. These minerals are present in groundwater or hydrothermal fluids which flow through the host rock. Temperature or chemistry changes cause minerals to precipitate out of the water, hardening on the walls of the cavity. The first layer in many geodes is often chalcedony, a micro-crystalline form of quartz.

This precipitation will often recur many times due to cyclical changes in temperature or fluid chemistry. As this process reoccurs over and over, inwardly pointing crystals will form.

OK, off to the local big smoke to buy some yummy food and let Socks run and play in the dog park there.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 1:27pm:



I had to lower the bar to try and help you.

Even then you didn't pass.   

I’ve got this huge amethyst about 40 cm high. My mum gave it to me for a forever present.

*

Bobby. wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 1:37pm:


Well - sometimes you get a pooch that just can't be helped, you know?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 4:13pm:


and still beyond your reach

Bobby. wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 1:37pm:


Well, there is an often repeated lie.

And I do not need the help of an uneducated idiot, thank you very much!

This total clown thought the Roaring 40s, the Westerlies, hit the east coast of Tasmania!

But you COULD make some very overdue apologies. But you need to be a man to do that I guess, not a poofter.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 5:11pm:



Poofter?
Can't I just ask you about some rocks and minerals without you exhibiting your ASPD?

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 5:34pm:



I always tried to help you.

I was the only one who gave honest feedback about your ASPD.

Jasin wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 5:46pm:



He's a Monk - Monks only pray and make beer and wine.

Monk - I gave you many chances.

If you apologise I'll post the pics of the other 6 rocks/minerals
and let you have a go on them too?

Bobby. wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 7:44pm:


Listen, dick, I have told you several times that minerals generally cannot be identified from a photo.

As to apologies I am waiting for SEVERAL from YOU, psychopath.

Did you forget you tried to blackmail me AFTER stealing videos of Socks? No apology from that received yet?

As to chances/help—none ever received.

Jasin wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 7:53pm:



Does he still expect me to post the other 6 photos?   

Gee. That's a witty comeback if ever there was one (from the schoolyard level)   

Proof folks that Mimo Smith has a screw loose

Listen Smith,
just identify the rocks - if you can? -
forget all the sledging.

That's all you ever have - you halfwit.   

Bobby. wrote on Dec 28^th, 2024 at 10:45am:

Hardness?
Density?

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 28^th, 2024 at 11:49am:



Smith left school when he was 15 to paint houses
and he tries to mix it with the intelligentsia here.   

.... list..... list....... do ye hear it?  D'ya hear it?  The distant knocking of the sledge hammers on the Skull of Smith ... that relentless pursuit of the Holey Stone Brain....

Bobby. wrote on Dec 28^th, 2024 at 10:45am:


You have it wrong way around. You do my bidding, not the other way around

John Smith wrote on Dec 28^th, 2024 at 12:35pm:


I am your Master, Fluke...... feel The Dark Side....

Did you ever get the feeling when standing looking at a person that you were looking into a swirling whirlpool of madness... that's what it's like with some of you I could name easily.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 28^th, 2024 at 11:52am:


LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!

Booby the psychopathic poofter dropped out of HS.

Then the idiot thinks he is part of the “intelligentsia here” when the Chinese bioweapon thread in Fringe shows he is a clueless idiot.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 27^th, 2024 at 1:12pm:



I couldn't provide hardness details so I lowered the bar for you -
you only had to come up with a few interesting stories and you couldn't.
You failed a simple test.   

Monk,
you are forgiven.
Have one more go and if you do well -  I'll post the pictures of the rest of them.