rockfrog
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rockfrog on Feb 27, 2021 0:23:54 GMT -5
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saxplayer
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by saxplayer on Feb 27, 2021 0:25:30 GMT -5
No clued but I'd be darn excited to tumble some lol. Loving the lines / blacks and blues
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Post by parfive on Feb 27, 2021 1:15:10 GMT -5
Couple of pics near the end, 9 & 10, sure look like sodalite.
Also looks like the blue swirlstone from Southern Africa that Kim imported years ago.
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 27, 2021 7:53:15 GMT -5
Blue aventurine?
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Sabre52
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Me and my gal, Rosie
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Post by Sabre52 on Feb 27, 2021 10:15:35 GMT -5
I'd go with blue quartz, or blue aventurine if that's included mica. That one striped example sure does look like swirlstone from south Africa but swirlstone has much finer grained structure and is a bit softer, as I think it has feldspar and sodalite as part of it's makeup if I'm remembering correctly.
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rockfrog
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rockfrog on Feb 27, 2021 13:20:09 GMT -5
After reading your responses and looking online I'm going to say this is blue aventurine. I've never heard of swirlstone and google hasn't either apparently because I could find almost no results for it. When I searched through the forum in the pictures I saw swirlstone has a bit more orange and/or grey in it, Sabre52 said it is finer grained and softer, and these were supposed to come from Asia/India while swirlstone is from Africa, so even though it looks pretty close to swirlstone for those reasons I'm ruling it out. Blue quartz looks a bit lighter from what I saw on google and its blue stripes seem more random while these look more parallel to me so that's why I don't think it's blue quartz. Sodalite seems to be darker blue and have more white in it that occurs as large stripes which my stones don't have and the sodalite I saw that didn't have large white stripes the blue in it was more random and not as stripey as my stones. I'm going to tumble them and if my guess changes I'll update this but for now it's going to be blue aventurine. Thank you all for your responses and help!!!
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USMC15
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I feel like I just came out of the tumbler ...
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Post by USMC15 on Mar 8, 2021 19:49:33 GMT -5
I would like to see this tumbled
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rockfrog
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rockfrog on Apr 27, 2021 10:17:53 GMT -5
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