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Let's Rock => Identifications of Materials => Topic started by: Greg Hiller on May 02, 2018, 04:02:21 PM
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My wife obtained two cabs of this material. I repolished one and set as a pendant and cut the other into two, recut/polished and set for matching earrings. The material was quite soft, made a lot of black water as I was cutting it and kind of stained my Nova wheels (and hands) temporarily black. Anyhow, the finished pieces as you see have a bluish appearance and polished up quite well on cerium oxide/leather. She paid pretty good money for these, I'm trying to remember if she said they were some type of silver containing ore? Any ideas on name/origin? We picked them up at a gem show somewhere or the other.
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I ran across that material some time ago, I don't remember the name however I believe it contains Marcasite. :dontknow:
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That looks to be Covellite. Love that stuff!
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Covelite.