Please help Identify this rock (Thank you)

[joe]

Hi Guys, are you able to identify this rock? many thanks

 

[joe]

The same rock with few more angles and broken down further:

 

[gcause]

Looks like smokey quartz to me.

 

[joe]

Some sort of ore it's non magnetic but detectable with a detector , hoping not to be hot rock.

 

[Heatho]

Looks like a hotrock to me Joe, smash it up a bit more and if 1 piece is giving a signal there might be a nug, if all the pieces give a signal it's just a hotrock.

Looks like there are some pyrite crystals in it, maybe Arsenopyrite too, looks like Iron in it also. Maybe some type of Sulphide ore with multiple metal types???

Cool rock.

 

[joe]

Thanks Heatho,specimen came out of mine/ tunnel and extremely difficult to break. Hot rocks that I've picked up before never had such a vast composition or mixture of minerals. Obviously no visible gold but the machine sees some form of metal compound.

 

[The Green Wanderer]

I concur with Heatho, looks like iron and quartz to me though some of those pics make the blue stand out so could be copper sulphides in there too. You could break it down to thumb sized bits and check each individual for colour, hardness, flame etc if you were really keen to know.
The rusty looking veins in it are definately high in iron.
Cheers TGW

 

[joe]

Thank you TGW,

 

[driftnpow]

What sort of mine? Ive seen similar out of Kalgoorlie, Im thinking a basalt - maybe of gabbro which is very hard stuff.
Like Heatho said, I have to think that's from a sulphide based ore, green tinge on one of the sides indicates there could be copper in there, maybe nickel due to the dark intrusions as a guess.
Cheers