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Let's Rock => Identifications of Materials => Topic started by: ileney on April 14, 2020, 06:42:01 PM
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These two were in one of the boxes my dad sent me, but mixed in with jasper’s and agates and equipment, not with the turquoise tin. What is it? Variscite? Turquoise? Something else? They look like very smooth and greenish turquoise. One has a darker green rind and an area where that is inside as shown. Does this mean it was stabilized and maybe dyed? The one that I cut feels very smooth and hard on the cut, not like the sandy feeling I was expecting.
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Pictures are rough but the third from that dark green swirl coming in from the left makes it look like imperial Jasper from Mexico
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The first one looks like quartzite. I agree on the third being imperial jasper. The second needs a better focus.
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Sorry. The second and third are the same stone. I will try to post better pics later.