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Post by stoneturnercrafts on Aug 19, 2017 22:12:12 GMT -5
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Post by stoneturnercrafts on Aug 19, 2017 22:13:26 GMT -5
ok.. so I need my own flickr account that was pretty easy. Any questions about the rock let me know!
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 19, 2017 22:35:20 GMT -5
ok.. so I need my own flickr account that was pretty easy. Any questions about the rock let me know! Howdy and welcome to the forum. Think you are going to need better pictures and maybe give a bit of history of the stone if you know anything about it. |
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Post by stoneturnercrafts on Aug 19, 2017 22:49:21 GMT -5
oh jeez that is a right awful picture of that thing  I'll see if I cant upload a new one. Not much history to it unfortunately friend gave it to me along with a bunch of other slabs. All he could tell me was it was expensive. And maybe had the words blue sky in the name. |
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Post by stoneturnercrafts on Aug 19, 2017 23:03:41 GMT -5
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Post by captbob on Aug 19, 2017 23:46:01 GMT -5
I'm gonna go with amazonite. Types can be translucent like yours. Maybe from Canada, but that's a guess.
Welcome to the forum.
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Post by MrMike on Aug 19, 2017 23:58:17 GMT -5
Larimar???
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 20, 2017 1:05:52 GMT -5
Looks like larimar to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2017 1:13:52 GMT -5
I think I'm detecting radiating needles (acicular habit), and with the blue color it could be hemimorphite or smithsonite.
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Post by coloradocliff on Aug 20, 2017 1:39:38 GMT -5
Isn't the color awful pale for hemimorphite or smithsonite?
Do some come that pale?
See your radiating needles.
Maybe a couple pictures in natural sunlight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2017 14:19:45 GMT -5
I've seen both in white, strong blue, green and pink, so still possible. I'd do a hardness test to start narrowing things down.
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Post by fernwood on Aug 20, 2017 16:18:43 GMT -5
I vote for smithsonite
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Post by drocknut on Aug 20, 2017 17:05:52 GMT -5
Could it be blue lace agate? doesn't look like larimar to me
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2017 20:51:34 GMT -5
OP.
Please help us. Showing us a pic of a random stone gives us very very little to go buy.
Have you tested it by scratching a knife on it? Did it scratch?
Where is it from? Locality always help.
I'm guessing we don't need acid test here. That may be a mistake also.
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Post by Fossilman on Aug 21, 2017 8:59:28 GMT -5
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Post by stoneturnercrafts on Aug 24, 2017 19:38:57 GMT -5
no clue how you did that but thanks  so I tried a streak test on what I think is porcelain it came back white. It does seem to be scratched with a knife, at least a little bit. someone mentioned the radial crystal structure to almost like needles that catch light. this picture is in direct sunlight flic.kr/p/XYqFz3 |
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Aug 25, 2017 10:23:11 GMT -5
Looks a lot like hemimorphite to me - def not amazonite or larimar. I'm not soo familiar with Smithsonite though so can't rule that out.
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Post by fernwood on Aug 25, 2017 10:43:27 GMT -5
From Flickr. Click on photo. then click on the rounded arrow on bottom of photo tools bar. This is to share a direct link. then choose BBC code. Copy link and post here. Any photos will appear here.
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Post by stoneturnercrafts on Aug 27, 2017 9:36:50 GMT -5
After searching a bunch of photos and the different types suggested Hemimorphite looks the winner. Thanks everyone!
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I'll see if I cant upload a new one. Not much history to it unfortunately friend gave it to me along with a bunch of other slabs. All he could tell me was it was expensive. And maybe had the words blue sky in the name. 
so I tried a streak test on what I think is porcelain it came back white. It does seem to be scratched with a knife, at least a little bit. someone mentioned the radial crystal structure to almost like needles that catch light. this picture is in direct sunlight
