Post by kk on Sept 28, 2014 7:12:56 GMT -5
Not sure if this is the right place, but no other category really fits those two. :dontknow:
I recently got lucky and someone send me two wonderful and strange abnormalities of nature.
First up Slaughter Mountain
Odd colour inside out. No valuable colours detected up to now, but large areas of Crackle pattern that I might or might not be able to preserve.
Now all the colours have been replaced by actual Fire Agate colours. A bit dark and need sun to shine. But its early days and a lot of changes can happen with every turn.
There is a solid layer of colour somewhere about 8 - 15mm into the stone, but we do not need to go there because 80% of the colour that you saw earlier was turned into iridescent colour. Weaved trougout the stone is crackle, mixed with pink, reddish (actual FA colour, not sard layer on top) golden and brown and saw some green.
Did the top today and tested several spots for better colour. Top works out slowly but surely. Unfortunately the search for better colour did not turn out as well. Opposite, made a major mistake and at one spot instead of finding bubbles that I saw clearly a moment earlier I went down into empty space. As that was at a prominent location, I will have to figure out a way to either go deeper and find something or find a way to cut around it.
The second is Negrita from Mexico.
Negrita has the challenge of near black agate covering the fire. So its a guessing-game for every mm along the way. Luckily it seems to have a clear layer just before hitting the colour.
It a material that had been on my wishlist since forever.
So close and yet so far.
I expect to be on those two guys for at least a month or more.
Best regards, Kurt
I recently got lucky and someone send me two wonderful and strange abnormalities of nature.
First up Slaughter Mountain
Odd colour inside out. No valuable colours detected up to now, but large areas of Crackle pattern that I might or might not be able to preserve.
Now all the colours have been replaced by actual Fire Agate colours. A bit dark and need sun to shine. But its early days and a lot of changes can happen with every turn.
There is a solid layer of colour somewhere about 8 - 15mm into the stone, but we do not need to go there because 80% of the colour that you saw earlier was turned into iridescent colour. Weaved trougout the stone is crackle, mixed with pink, reddish (actual FA colour, not sard layer on top) golden and brown and saw some green.
Did the top today and tested several spots for better colour. Top works out slowly but surely. Unfortunately the search for better colour did not turn out as well. Opposite, made a major mistake and at one spot instead of finding bubbles that I saw clearly a moment earlier I went down into empty space. As that was at a prominent location, I will have to figure out a way to either go deeper and find something or find a way to cut around it.
The second is Negrita from Mexico.
Negrita has the challenge of near black agate covering the fire. So its a guessing-game for every mm along the way. Luckily it seems to have a clear layer just before hitting the colour.
It a material that had been on my wishlist since forever.
So close and yet so far.
I expect to be on those two guys for at least a month or more.
Best regards, Kurt