Hi everyone! I am here to identify some rocks that my dad collected many years ago. He had so much love and appreciation for rocks, gems, and minerals. He even bought land in California because of the huge outcroppings on the property. He was always digging somewhere He picked up many rocks on his travels, so I don't know locations where they were discovered. I will post them in the appropriate section, as I really would like to know what they are.

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Hi Scott, and thank you Yes, we still have the land. The outcroppings are 20 feet high in some areas, just huge boulders jetting upwards through the earth. Any idea what type of rock those huge ones are? The land is in Southern California, in the eastern mountains at a 2,000 ft elevation.  The base of one of the tallest outcroppings on the property (pictured in my other post) almost looks like the covered up entrance to a mine, if you rolled one of the smaller round rocks out, which looks almost impossible to me. About 100 feet from the main outcroppings is a very small foundation (about the size of one room) where we just assumed another house had been over 100 years ago. Now I wonder if it was a mining camp, since it's so small to be a house.

Do you have any ideas on what the other rocks I posted are? My father found a lot of rocks in and near the Napa valley river, and also did a lot of searching in the streams of the Laguna mountains east of San Diego, along with the San Diego beaches. He was always searching in other states on business trips, but never out of the US. I would sure like to know what these are. I have others, but I didn't want to overload or take advantage

Any help would be appreciated.

1confusednewbie