Color:  Huronia Chert is a bluish gray mottled or banded chert with brownish-grey or greyish-beige colors.  Chert is commonly speckled with light/dark grey, or grey-black.  Redish brown or pinkish staining may be present.  It can display mottling and/or fine banding, and widely scattered siderite inclusions, as well as recrystalized quartz vugs

Texture: Medium to fine grain

Luster: Dull to waxy

Translucency:  Opaque

Silica Fabrics / Fossils:

Patina:  White

Heat Treatment:  Heat treatment produces shades of red and increases the luster.  Commonly misidentified as jasper.

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Distribution Comments:

Huronia chert is associated with the Fontenac Axis Member of the Gull River Formation.  Primary outcroppings are located on n Jacob Island and around Lake Huron, Ontario.  Found in glacial till in eastern Ohio.