Looking at the pic,its a "filled" polymer,or plastic.
A little bit like fiberglass cloth in an epoxy resin,or the glass flock in Accraglas.
I can only tell so much from a glance at a phot
nly that I recognize the cosmetic.
I stopped building molds in the late 90's. I'm sure there a generations of wonder resins I've never heard of.
A commonly used black filled polymer is/was graphite filled nylon. Good,tough,stable material. Your graphite spinning reel might be made of it.It would not surprise me if Glock and S+W handgun frames were molded from it.
But I cannot say by looking "Its 40% graphite Nylon 6/6" You get that off the bag label,like reloading powder.
As far s "Could it make a good optic product?" Then "Will it make a good product? " Those are two very different questions.There are a lot of variables.
Example? Nylon is a hygroscopic material. It sucks moisture from the air. You can dry your material in a dessicant bed dryer to acceptable "very dry" level,and then as little as 15 or 20 minutes exposure in an open hopper can cost you 40% 0r 60% of the engineering properties of the material.
imagine the water trapped at a molecular level turning to steam in the 450 deg barrel of the mold press,as it is injected into the mold at around 12,000 psi.. Have you ever done the old "crush a gallon can" Mr Wizard trick with putting a tablespoon of water in the can,heating it till the water turns to steam,then screw the cap on the can? As the steam cools,the can is crushed.
The same idea happens inside the mold. Sinks,voids,porosity,surface splay.
I could see evidence of how the plastic flowed through the mold.How the mold is gated and vented matters a lot.When plastic flows around a core to make a tube,often two flow fronts come together.The surface has a slightly cooled skin.These surfaces have to weld together.The weld line has different properties. Actually,if venting is not sufficient,air is trapped. As compression heats the air.as in a diesel,it gets hot enough to scorch the weld line,
This all matters when you need roundness ,or sealing surfaces.
Top notch molding can make really good parts. The Austrian Glock factory might make better molded parts than a low bid Asian facility.
I'm telling you there is not an absolute answer.