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Post by Tweetiepy on Mar 1, 2005 11:25:25 GMT -5
I love this stuff (don't have any). But I love any hematite beads that I have at home (I like the feel & look of them). What does this look like once it's tumbled? And I heard about the red slurry, but I think I also heard of the horrible smell - is this true?
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Mar 1, 2005 11:38:49 GMT -5
Not sure on the smell- but it does make a nice red mess- and should be done by itself- It does turn out real nice-
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Post by Cher on Mar 1, 2005 12:06:14 GMT -5
There is no smell from the hematite. I agree that it should be done by itself. If any of the rock your tumbling it with has fractures, the red from the ore will stain the edges of the fractures to an orangy red color. I had a jumbled mix of do-overs and different stuff I'd picked up so I the whole mess in together. Anything that had any fractures were stained, it was just like the iron ore crawled up into the cracks and it isn't coming out.
Cher
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Post by creativeminded on Mar 3, 2005 10:11:26 GMT -5
Here is a picture of some very small hematite that I tumbled. I got it in some Sapphire gravel seperated it out and tumbled it seperately. I imagine if I had had bigger pieces I would have taken a little more time. I have some very large pieces of hematite that I will be cutting when I get my rock saw up and going. Tumbled hematite Raw hematite Tami
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Post by Condor on Mar 4, 2005 16:38:46 GMT -5
This is some hematite that I tumbled several years ago. I bought the rough from Kingsley North and for the most part, it looked similar to the rough Creativeminded showed you. I broke the rough with a hammer. (Notice how the ones next to the penny are a little rusty.) At no time was there any kind of smell. Okay, here's the photo again. I thought since I had posted it, I didn't need it in the server so I deleted it. Guess it doesn't work that way. Condor
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Post by Tweetiepy on Mar 5, 2005 7:55:17 GMT -5
Condor, what happened to the picture??
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Post by Condor on Mar 5, 2005 16:26:23 GMT -5
I don't know what happened to the picture. Okay, who stole my rocks? I'll try posting them again.
Condor
Okay, it's back up again. Thanks Tweetiepie.
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