Hey folks! Not sure if this is the *right* place to post these..
Some recent finished pieces.. the first was pretty hard stuff.. felt like grossular garnet to me, maybe with chrome diopside? Found @ Deer Creek, near Oso, WA.
Second might be vesuvianite? Also from Deer Creek. The bands were full of metals.. and between the fractures seem to be gold.. it took a lot of work to cut it back this far, she suffered quite a bit and had a lot of deep fractures, pieces falling off.. eventually I got there. The green is translucent, much of the rest on the front side is transparent... all broken up, the fractures filled and block the light.. this guy also spins.
Third.. rodingite? Deer Creek.. It's got really hard green bits, garnet or chrome diopside? some of it is light blue green, some of it is more olive color. Almost looks like peridot in places. Still more to go, this is at 1000.