Minnesota Daniel
freely admits to licking rocks
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Post by Minnesota Daniel on Jan 16, 2013 20:56:25 GMT -5
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Post by helens on Jan 16, 2013 23:28:09 GMT -5
Hi Daniel:). It does look a bit like parrotwing chrysocolla... but there's a certain sort of grainyness that is in this slab that isn't in chrysocolla (least not the pieces I have). I see that texture in Rob's, where that beige part is... I think that's the biggest oddity in this rock... that funny sort of mossy grain in the olivey beige part. It's not translucent... but it's not opaque either, like some onyx. Yet this is hard, not soft (I think of glass as the divider, this is definitely harder than glass at 5.5 MOH), and I'm guessing about 6 or 6.5 hardness. Wyoming is a good possibiilty, because I have some of Jim's (Wampidy) rocks, and some have a very similar 'grain', even if completely different colors. I would think as amazing as this stuff can be, that whoever finds it will make a whole lot of $$ .
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 22:38:19 GMT -5
That would make an awesome sphere!
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