braat
spending too much on rocks
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Post by braat on May 25, 2019 19:21:15 GMT -5
Is this rhodonite? (shown wet) other side
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Post by rockjunquie on May 25, 2019 20:31:28 GMT -5
Thulite, for sure. It's a kind of zoisite, both the green and the pink.
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braat
spending too much on rocks
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Post by braat on May 25, 2019 23:08:40 GMT -5
Thulite, for sure. It's a kind of zoisite, both the green and the pink. Thanks...do you (or anyone else) know how well thulite tumbles? Will it take a shine? I got it when I went to a local rock club meeting (to see if I wanted to join) and somebody was giving these away. I have a grand niece who loves anything pink so I'm thinking I'll cut a heart out and see how it tumbles...
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Post by rockjunquie on May 25, 2019 23:20:32 GMT -5
Thulite, for sure. It's a kind of zoisite, both the green and the pink. Thanks...do you (or anyone else) know how well thulite tumbles? Will it take a shine? I got it when I went to a local rock club meeting (to see if I wanted to join) and somebody was giving these away. I have a grand niece who loves anything pink so I'm thinking I'll cut a heart out and see how it tumbles... I don't tumble, yet, but I have cabbed it. It doesn't polish to a glassy finish like an agate but it does polish very nicely. I like thulite a lot. I like pink, too.
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Post by Rockindad on May 26, 2019 12:15:31 GMT -5
A couple of pics, one dry and one wet, of the slab we played with recently. My son made a couple of pendants recently from this. After cutting and shaping on a grinder they were finished in a vibe with a mixed batch of mostly agates and jaspers. We thought the results were kind of blah, although in all fairness they would have no doubt been considerably better if they were babied more with slower action and run with other soft materials. Polish was decent but not exceptional. Never took pics of the finished ones and he sold both of them at a Craft Fair so I guess they were popular enough. Thulite seems to vary a lot as there is some that is almost all pink. I wasn't even sure we had the right name until doing some searching. Good luck! Al
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braat
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Post by braat on May 26, 2019 14:02:06 GMT -5
My son made a couple of pendants recently from this. After cutting and shaping on a grinder they were finished in a vibe with a mixed batch of mostly agates and jaspers. We thought the results were kind of blah, although in all fairness they would have no doubt been considerably better if they were babied more with slower action and run with other soft materials. Polish was decent but not exceptional. Never took pics of the finished ones and he sold both of them at a Craft Fair so I guess they were popular enough. Thulite seems to vary a lot as there is some that is almost all pink. I wasn't even sure we had the right name until doing some searching. Good luck! Al Thanks for taking the time to explain your experience with this stuff....it's pretty much what I intend to do.. I'll try to shine by hand if the vibe doesn't shine it up good enough.
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