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This is a specimen which i have always had an intense interest in. From a Late Cretaceous formation. Since finding it 4 yr. ago, i have kept it quietly hid for 95% of the time...guess i'm just crazy like that. It has been looked at once but no positive i.d. could be made, but this specimen did peak an interest when viewed. I can say i've never before or after saw anything like it, truely. These photos just don't do the material justice. This outside surface area is alittle on the ugly side no doubt, but i have super high hopes for the inside. As you can see, the green crystal structure on the surface looks dull for the most part, but when you turn it,it flashes like new-money. Not sure about the dull white material which is covering the green crystal on the surface...under a scope it looks to be something of a fine crystalized nature. The only person i have let view it told me it might have came to my area from the Smokey Mountains. It scratches white on unglazed porcelain, & i've determined to have a cut on it next week....can anything be told about it in the meantime?
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Announcing The First Ever Discovery In Tennessee Of Lignite Fossilized To "jet"!
Tennessees Pride posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
In september of 2013 a small piece of history was made in a Late Cretaceous formation here in Tennessee. In that month, I discovered a whole tree which had been fossilized to Jet! Jet is an organic mineraloid substance which is something of a rarity. Other organic mineraloids would be Amber and Pearl. A Mineraloid is something not technically a true mineral because it is derived from matter of an organic nature. In this case, this Jet could be described as a fossil, a mineraloid, or even a semi-precious gemstone. Our ancestors have had quite a long relationship with Jet which stretches back atleast to the Neolithic, like Amber, it has always been a prized material because of its electrostatic properties. So, without further ado, i wish to show the world the first glimpse of Tennessee Jet. & to be sure, i contacted The Tennessee Division of Geology in Nashville, spoke w/ the State Geologist. He was unaware of this mineraloids occurrence in Tennessee's borders....so a cross reference of the latest edition of The Minerals Of Tennessee was quickly made.....it's not in there either! (Truely, Jet is pretty rare everywhere else in America too.) So here is the first photos that anyone has ever saw of this material.....you can plainly see it use to be a tree, now it's Jet! There is an untold hundreds of pounds of this i have found....all still in the shape of a single tree!- 45 replies
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