Mystery Gemstone, HELP! Options

[Gold Seeker]

A friend of mine found this a couple of years ago, and has had a couple of Geologists looks at it and I think one Gemologist and they were stumped as to what it is, can anyone ID it???

This is a quote from my friend "a few years ago I found a very unusual stone imbedded in a quartz vein pocket. it has ultra fine gold stringers running all thru it. its some sort of gemstone, but nothing thats common."

I have 13 pictures of it I'll post just a few, and then more if necessary.

[chadrack]

Hello all. My guess would be specular hematite. Hematite, when cut ultra thin is translucent and red. Your specimen shows a common crystal pattern of such, "grown just right". Weathering and oxidation has separated individual outer plates just enough for light to pass through them causing the redness and "depth" you see. On my claims in NM this is not an uncommon material to find. And it does sometimes carry gold within its plates. Rather troublesome, actually. I could be easily wrong here, but that stuff sure looks familiar. Your streak test is the wrench in my works. good luck. c