trigger
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Post by trigger on Aug 17, 2010 21:00:53 GMT -5
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spokanetim
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Post by spokanetim on Aug 17, 2010 21:41:21 GMT -5
Got me, I think they look like a man made product. Haven't a clue what they would have been used for if they are man made. Are they all porous?
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trigger
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Post by trigger on Aug 17, 2010 22:12:22 GMT -5
some stones are very very hard like a hard crystal, others porous, the blue scratches off the hard ones, the porous ones are solid blue through out the stone and crystal like see pics. my first thought was turquoise, second fish tank gravel, third a crystal like rock containing copper? the sight where i find them is very remote, it took my 2 days maybe 8hrs to find these two dozen or so. i highly doubt the tank gravel for some as i chipped in pic are solid blue.
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Post by susand24224 on Aug 18, 2010 0:56:31 GMT -5
Hi,
I have no idea what your rocks are, but I long ago bought some "unsorted" turquoise nuggets. Most were light blue and porous, but a few were harder, less porous and actually picked up a bit of a luster after a run in 500 grit. These were darker pieces, almost tending toward green. Your rocks look like my odd ball pieces.
Susan
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 18, 2010 8:53:15 GMT -5
If you're in the copper country up there I'd guess those are typical copper oxide minerals, mainly chrysocolla maybe with some malachite and other copper ores mixed in. If they are hard and solid enough to polish and have color all the way through, it might be pretty desirable material for the tumbler. Sounds like the hunting is hard enough to barely make it worth while though because out in places like Arizona, old copper prospects can provide a lot of good material of that sort.....Mel
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trigger
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Post by trigger on Aug 19, 2010 13:45:44 GMT -5
img15.imageshack.us/i/22658578.jpg/i add 3 more detail pics, wooo tiny stones r hard to photograph, the color of the stones range from milky clear, (see pic of one i drilled) i drill things commonly??? the stone was hard the small indent in pic took 15mins of a high speed dremal with stone tip. the other colors range from a redishbrown to light cement gray, the stones with color are speckled with tiny orangeish dots, (on one there is a bit of dark red polish residue on the stone, but only a bit, the res did not alter color of the stone, i just forgot to clean it well) and of course the solid blue porous one, i cracked it its sparkly pours sky blue throughout, with a some gray like matrix?? so many variations, i was told there is large stones, well i have no clue what they are but should i: A go arrowhead hunting, or: B go snorkeling for more mysterious stones? the stones are i in 1,000,000,000, maybe??? a remote area (a trail 1 mile deep in woods) in a rive where there is a slowly overturning gravel bed the stones fall deep into the river, not easy to retrieve. one more question, where should i send a sample, to get it properly identified?
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Post by FrogAndBearCreations on Aug 19, 2010 20:51:29 GMT -5
that close up looks like a coated rock, man made and most likely aquarium gravel
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jasperblue
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by jasperblue on Sept 4, 2010 0:30:01 GMT -5
I'm leaning with FrogAndBear. Look's a lot like aquarium gravel from here.
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