What are your favorite lithic materials?

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Posted by [JoshinMO]
The local stuff I am torn between. Burlington and Rhyolite. There are plenty of more colorful,textured etc materials out there, these just happen to be what I am thinking of walking through the field or near creek...
heat treated Burlington



Below is Missouri Rhyolite. An igneous material that is super tough.


It varies from brown to maroon to purple and the sun changes the shade. :woohoo: :laugh:

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Posted by [JoshinMO]
My raw burlington wont upload! :angry:
well there it is./ nope, last attempt, sure everybody knows what it is anyway.

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Posted by [gregszybala]

Lol, so really Ron, which ones your favorite?

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Posted by [CMD]

I created a thread for this material just last week, so Hingham Felsite from south of Boston is probably my favorite...




Notarelichunter commented
02-10-2019, 03:58 PM
Awesome! Looks like a point from out of this world. Lol

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Posted by [Hoss]
yellow jasper these were all found in Western CT between Milford and New Milford along the Housitonic River and it's tributaries. The Material may have been traded in from as far away as Southern PA or Rhode Island. Some may have just been found in CT as I have found this material sporadically in CT. A friend of mine had commented on finding a three hundred pound boulder of it in the woods near Woodbury CT I am sure because of finds of raw material like that some was deposited into CT via glacial activity.



Outstanding idea for a thread

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Posted by [Ron Kelley]

gregszybala wrote:
Lol, so really Ron, which ones your favorite?


:rolf: :laugh: Nephrite Jade, Banded Obsidian, carnelian agate, Dendritic Agate, Fossiliferous Chert, Jasper, Jefferson City Chert, Knife River Flint, mahogany obsidian, Novaculite, or petrified wood … or that multicolored one… or one I haven’t seen yet. :laugh: :rolf:
Then again I do like quartz especially rose quartz and banded quartz.

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Posted by [OnewiththewilD]

i like quartzite the best myself


Hey Hoss , ive got a point ive found here along the bay made outta jasper that looks like it belongs in the same quiver as yers!

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Posted by [hvs]

Unknown lithic from NY.. Just one of my favorites..

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Posted by [rmartin]

Well since probably 70 percent of everything I find in Illinois is white Burlington (or pink heat treated Burlington), anything of a different color is special. One that sticks out thought is Attica or Indiana Green. We don't find it often but love it when we do.

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Posted by [chase]


rmartin wrote:
Well since probably 70 percent of everything I find in Illinois is white Burlington (or pink heat treated Burlington), anything of a different color is special. One that sticks out thought is Attica or Indiana Green. We don't find it often but love it when we do.


I here ya on that Ray I like those lithics. another favorite is Kremmling Chert, Thats cause I grew up with it.

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Posted by [Kyflintguy]



Great post everybody! Absolutely loving seeing all these beautiful materials! I hope this turns into a smorgasbord of lithics from every corner of the continent! If you all ready posted your favorite material, go ahead and post your second favorite or third or in Ron's case your fifteenth! :rolf: I likem all! Here's some Chalcedony from Tennessee...

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Posted by [Hoss]

Here is a pretty nice Attica Chert (Indiana Green) bifurcate I picked up last year. Parke Co Indiana




Notarelichunter commented
02-10-2019, 04:09 PM
Awesome find Hoss! Love that color

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Posted by [dirt kicker]

Wyandotte chert or indiana hornstone. My favorite lithic. And found quite a ways from source.


This second one is one I knapped but shows the color nicely.



Vic1701 commented
02-10-2019, 12:27 AM
Beautiful material and arrowhead.


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Cecilia commented
12-08-2019, 08:26 PM
Never seen green point! Make more!

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Posted by [south fork]

Crystal is my favorite .





Vic1701 commented
02-10-2019, 12:28 AM
Very nice, where are they from?

south fork commented
02-17-2019, 04:49 PM
Personal finds from N. California thanks .

Emaner377 commented
05-15-2019, 04:44 AM
Killer!

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Posted by [CMD]

I like the type of quartzite that many collectors call sugar quartz. Hixton Quartzite is the best known, but I don't have any. Maybe someone can post some Hixton. Here are some pieces I like made of "sugar quartz" quartzite.

A fluted point from Kentucky:


An Otter Creek from Ma.:

RI:


Notarelichunter commented
02-10-2019, 04:17 PM

Stunning! I’m drooling looking at all these different lithics