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Post by fernwood on May 9, 2018 6:40:16 GMT -5
Is this Variscite? If not, then what? Thank you. I also noticed the upload window listed 0/20 files for upload and a 10 MB size. Is this an error?
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Post by roy on May 9, 2018 9:51:44 GMT -5
not Variscite ?not sure what that is looks more of some kind of quartz
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Post by catmandewe on May 9, 2018 10:13:33 GMT -5
Amazonite?
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Post by Dr DG on May 9, 2018 11:05:52 GMT -5
that's from Russia
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Post by fernwood on May 9, 2018 12:46:21 GMT -5
</div>Interesting. That info helps a lot.
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Post by lookatthat on May 9, 2018 15:04:39 GMT -5
It does look Amazonite-y. or maybe serpentine.
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Post by gemfeller on May 9, 2018 23:55:13 GMT -5
The structure reminds me a lot of this amazonite: But very seldom can a completely accurate stone ID be made from an image.
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Post by fernwood on May 10, 2018 3:28:10 GMT -5
I am leaning towards Amazonite. Thanks for the info.
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Post by rmf on May 10, 2018 9:48:06 GMT -5
fernwood what is the moh's hardness? if 6 then Amazonite is a good guess. If 7 Aventurine or Jade. Polish the corner on the diamond wheel if you have diamond wheels. If it polishes quick and easy then Aventurine. Jade seems to be harder to polish. If it is soft back to Amazonite. Also Amazonite shows parting planes. They appear as poor cleavege. If you do not see them probably not Amazonite.
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Post by fernwood on May 10, 2018 14:10:03 GMT -5
Has planes and appears to be about 6 for Mohs. I could shape some with a basic hand file.
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Post by Dr DG on May 10, 2018 19:11:49 GMT -5
Russian Microcline Amazonite
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Post by geostrong on May 11, 2018 14:29:58 GMT -5
I have looked at this picture probably 30 times now.... My first thought was that it looked like diopside. I still think it looks like diopside... The fracture patterns, color, hardness (5.5-6.5 Mohs), translucency all play into diopside. While translucency is hard to tell, I am pretty sure that's what I see.
Though, it does look similar to Fish's picture...
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Post by fernwood on May 11, 2018 15:05:21 GMT -5
I received it from Fish. I agree it does look like Diopside.
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Post by Dr DG on May 11, 2018 15:34:44 GMT -5
I am 100 percent it's Russian amazonite, I still have the rest of the material . call it what ever you want.
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Post by fernwood on May 11, 2018 15:55:26 GMT -5
I will call it what you say it is, you should know.
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Post by geostrong on May 12, 2018 16:58:37 GMT -5
Ahh, I see, it was already known Beautiful amazonite!
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Post by 1dave on May 26, 2018 10:45:55 GMT -5
The feldspar rhomboidal pattern blabs all - and ends this discussion.
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Post by parfive on May 26, 2018 15:33:56 GMT -5
Who’s the snowflake on the delete key?
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