What type rock is this?

Question

I found this rock in a canyon. It is an irony color with a gold (not shiny) almost poured into the crevices like dirt. I have pics if anyone in interested. I would like to find out what it is

Answer 1

Browse the pix at
http://www.mineralminers.com/

Answer 2

Sounds like Iron Pyrite, aka Fool's Gold

Answer 3

the answerer above me may be correct but it could also be,
http://www.yuprocks.com/mineral_pictures.shtml here is a site that has a list of all the rocks that it could be and pictures just click on the one that you want to see and a pic will come up
I think it may be schist...
Schist (Metamorphic rock)
Top and bottom layers are usually a silvery, to green, to brown, to black mica, or a green to very dark green chlorite. The micas are often in small flaky crystals. Layers are usually thin, often with lens like layers of quartz between the mica layers. Layers may be somewhat wavy. Grain size varies from medium to coarse. Schist usually splits easily along the layers of mica, unlike gneiss.
What Minerals Make Up the Rock? quartz, feldspar, mica (muscovite, biotite). Sometimes: chlorite, garnet, hornblende, actinolite, kyanite, magnetite, pyrite, staurolite, tourmaline, and many others.

Pyrite is more like gold than iron http://www.windows.ucar.edu/earth/geology/min_pyrite.backup_MetaRefresh

Answer 4

i think it is pyrite. pyrite do have gold kinda sprinkle all over it. it looks nice right...