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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 1, 2018 20:19:58 GMT -5
This guy on eBay listed a slab with a blurry picture for cheap and called this covellite. As soon as I got it, it was obvious it wasn't. I contacted him and told him it wasn't covellite. He was pissed. But, he gave me my money back and told me to keep the slabs and charge 100 per cab. Yeah, right! So, anyways.... what the heck is it? It is in no way shape or form blue. Lots of pretty pyrite, though. I have never cabbed Apache gold. I went looking for pictures and what I found doesn't really look like this either. Any ideas? It was a little less hard than a jasper and filthy to work with, but it cabbed up easily- very solid. It almost looks like pulsite. Is there such a thing as Aztec gold? I've seen pictures of that that look like it, but it might just be another name for Apache Gold. edit to tag @rocks2dust - I saw some pulsite in your shop a while back. I had a small slab of it. This is not quite as dark. But....
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 1, 2018 20:32:21 GMT -5
Here's pulsite piece I did. Now it doesn't look as much like it as I thought. My cab has no pitting, either.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 3:53:05 GMT -5
I haven't come across anything called "Aztec Gold"? "Apache Gold" (chalcopyrite) can have a bit of resemblance to pulsite, but is softer/more crumbly and usually has a more brassy appearance. The black in Apache Gold is a dark steatite and/or schist, which is different than the metal sulfide in pulsite's black areas. To me, it looks similar to pulsite, however, there are a few similar-appearing stones from Oregon and elsewhere (native silver or platinum, various sulfides and oxide mixes). Agree that covellite is very doubtful (could be pyrite in magnetite, hematite or something other than blue copper).
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Post by stephan on Oct 2, 2018 18:03:19 GMT -5
As a newbie, I got some "jade" like that. Dirty as heck from lots of hematite inclusions. Might've turned into jade one day, if it had had a chance to subduct by another mile or two. Maybe. Never did figure it out.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 2, 2018 20:57:05 GMT -5
Doesn't look like Apache Gold to me. We have a bit of it from an estate of a geologist who worked up at the mines in Jerome. That's the only place Apache Gold comes from.
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