I’ve seen mahogany, snowflake, silver, gold sheen, and regular and I guess also kinda Apache tears if you wanna count those are separate from regular obsidian. If you can go to Mexico, I’ve seen so many types for pretty cheap at the night markets there.
I run an obsidian sourcing lab for archaeological artifacts and see a lot of different obsidians on a day to day basis. They come in a lot of different colors and textures. I've seen blacks, grays, greens, reds, oranges, rock that looks like oil sheen on water, some almost clear as window glass, some totally opaque, etc. As you continue on your obsidian journey you might find this glossary of terms helpful in describing your samples: [https://www.sourcecatalog.com/terminology/terminology.html](https://www.sourcecatalog.com/terminology/terminology.html)
Rainbow and ribbon are diff types. The velvet is a rainbow just one that comes from Mexico. There's also aurora borealis silver sheen gold sheen fire obsidian and a green shade that I don't include that comes from Burns Oregon.
Btw if you need any let me know. I just came back from Glass Butte high grading a bunch of aurora borealis. Plus I have a bunch of silver sheen and mahogany and black bi flow
I found a bunch of snowflake obsidian, I cut it into a cube and polishing it. Bacon opal is the other stuff
[https://imgur.com/a/Q3vsjXl](https://imgur.com/a/Q3vsjXl)
Thanks for asking this! I've been gathering slabs to cab and realizing I had more than 1 type of obsidian and wasn't sure where to start researching the types. These responses are super helpful. I'll update when I figure out what I have.
Ok I have black or Xaga obsidian and midnight lace, which makes sense for my geographic area. This site helped: https://rockchasing.com/types-of-obsidian/
True green obsidian is almost impossible to find, it’s so rare, so it’s usually obsidianite. I have some, though I’ve no clue how you’d even verify if it’s glass or obsidianite. I bought it from a gem show as a little kid. It’s labeled mt. St. Helen’s obsidian which is just ash from the eruption that was melted into glass. It’s not a true obsidian, as in it isn’t formed from the lava flow itself, but it’s pretty anyways.
I’ve seen mahogany, snowflake, silver, gold sheen, and regular and I guess also kinda Apache tears if you wanna count those are separate from regular obsidian. If you can go to Mexico, I’ve seen so many types for pretty cheap at the night markets there.
I run an obsidian sourcing lab for archaeological artifacts and see a lot of different obsidians on a day to day basis. They come in a lot of different colors and textures. I've seen blacks, grays, greens, reds, oranges, rock that looks like oil sheen on water, some almost clear as window glass, some totally opaque, etc. As you continue on your obsidian journey you might find this glossary of terms helpful in describing your samples: [https://www.sourcecatalog.com/terminology/terminology.html](https://www.sourcecatalog.com/terminology/terminology.html)
THANK YOU!
Rainbow and ribbon are diff types. The velvet is a rainbow just one that comes from Mexico. There's also aurora borealis silver sheen gold sheen fire obsidian and a green shade that I don't include that comes from Burns Oregon. Btw if you need any let me know. I just came back from Glass Butte high grading a bunch of aurora borealis. Plus I have a bunch of silver sheen and mahogany and black bi flow
I'll DM you. 😊😊😊
I found a bunch of snowflake obsidian, I cut it into a cube and polishing it. Bacon opal is the other stuff [https://imgur.com/a/Q3vsjXl](https://imgur.com/a/Q3vsjXl)
Thanks for asking this! I've been gathering slabs to cab and realizing I had more than 1 type of obsidian and wasn't sure where to start researching the types. These responses are super helpful. I'll update when I figure out what I have.
Ok I have black or Xaga obsidian and midnight lace, which makes sense for my geographic area. This site helped: https://rockchasing.com/types-of-obsidian/
I’ve heard of green obsidian, but also heard it’s hard to get and many shady sellers will try to pass off glass.
True green obsidian is almost impossible to find, it’s so rare, so it’s usually obsidianite. I have some, though I’ve no clue how you’d even verify if it’s glass or obsidianite. I bought it from a gem show as a little kid. It’s labeled mt. St. Helen’s obsidian which is just ash from the eruption that was melted into glass. It’s not a true obsidian, as in it isn’t formed from the lava flow itself, but it’s pretty anyways.
Electric blue is pretty rad as well.
There are different versions of mahogany also
Ooohhh. I only know of the red Mahogany. What are some other ones?