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Post by tntmom on Jun 30, 2012 22:54:13 GMT -5
I got this rock a year or so ago. I might have asked for an ID on this back then but if I did.... I didn't get an ID. It's still label-less Can someone please tell me what this pink pretty thing is (pink is more prominent in person....not sure why the photo looks more blue than pink, obviously a camera faux pas)? It's very hard and the face cut is fracture free except for just one.... I love it and will slab it this summer. Hope someone knows the ID! Thanks in advance!!! Cut side: Rough side: Thanks for taking some of your time to look at some of mine!
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Post by mohs on Jul 1, 2012 0:31:37 GMT -5
is the gold pyrite, Krystee ?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 9:15:06 GMT -5
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That thing smacked me right in the eyeballs. The side in the first pic looks like layered agate but if that is a cut the dendrites have to go all the way through the stone. Well, either that or you made one hell of a cut. The pink and blue together is just awesome X 10.
Sorry I can not help with the ID. It does not look like any of the pink that I have. Jim
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Post by tntmom on Jul 1, 2012 11:59:57 GMT -5
No pyrite Ed. I just took some more pictures dry so that the matrix will show better. I'll get those posted in a few.
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Post by tntmom on Jul 1, 2012 12:19:21 GMT -5
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Post by ulstergeki on Jul 1, 2012 14:07:41 GMT -5
Common Opal?
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Post by Don on Jul 1, 2012 14:12:32 GMT -5
I have some tiffany stone that looks similar
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 17:41:56 GMT -5
I have found many stones don't look "right" when photographed indoors with flash. I have also found that some snakes have the same problem. With respect to the snakes; I found that the snake was fluorescing under UV generated by the flash. Interestingly this snake had a fortunate name. It was a "Snow Ball Python". For you photographers, the light it fluoresced added 2/3 of a stop to the light shone by the flash. This was manual photography using a meter.
Perhaps your stone is fluorescing blue under the UV from the flash and that is showing in the image a color not seen in the stone by eye.
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Post by tntmom on Jul 1, 2012 19:00:34 GMT -5
Don, That's what Mark said too at first. Other people are thinking that it might actually be AZ Anderson Agate. Never heard of it before but slabbed a piece today to try to confirm the ID. That's interesting and great to know Shotgunner, THANKS!!! I didn't use flash when photographing these but the blue in actual person is more of a lavender. It is strange how the camera picked up so much blue, it did it outdoors as well??? I took a little slab off of it today from the right side (the whiter side), it's opaque. I thought it would have translucent areas in it, I was wrong. It's super hard stuff and I think it dished my MK-303 blade (crying......). Here's the rock after I haphazardly cut a little slab off of it (the whiter area from my original picture... I stopped at the fracture line) Both sides (first pic is probably going to be the front of a cab as the cut is a little rough and uneven): And the opaqueness:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2012 19:53:40 GMT -5
If the blue was green I would guess thulite. It looks really similar to some that I just received. Sun is gone so I will get photos tomorrow. The thulite is not as hard but it is really tough and drills harder than nephrite so it may cut harder also. I have only cut a small piece. Jim
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Post by gingerkid on Jul 2, 2012 3:59:06 GMT -5
That's pretty material, Krystee! Common opal and/or opalite?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2012 8:18:44 GMT -5
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Post by tntmom on Jul 2, 2012 11:08:15 GMT -5
Awesome Thulite Jim!
I got a positive ID from a couple of people including Elementary! It is AZ Anderson Mine Agate. It is listed in Lowell's 2012 American Agate Index Vol 1- Pictures on page 93 of the first volume shows Anderson Agate...
Yippee!!!!
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