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Beads!!!!! => Show and Tell -Finished Beads => Topic started by: lithicbeads on February 03, 2023, 05:55:38 PM
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The best piece of Washington actinolite I have ever found, the most saturated color and absolutely wild chatoyancy and a solidness I've never seen before. This pendant is 53 mm long, 25 mm wide, 2.5 mm hole.
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Congrats on the find.
Kudos on the finished piece!
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Very nice indeed. Reminds me of the attached piece in the museum of natural history, Oxford, England. From Corsica, southern France, it is called smaragdite. It is a mixture of diopside and actinolite-tremolite, coloured a particularly bright and beautiful green by the presence of trace chromium, within a grey-white matrix of plagioclase feldspar. When I clapped eyes on this six inch wide polished specimen in Oxford I vowed never to rest until I found another piece just as vibrant.
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Mixes similar to that used to be very common here but we no longer get rain events that turn over the gravel of the streams.
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Cool mod shield shape!
Very attractive material, as well.
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That one came out really nice. Those mineral blades can get brittle.
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Yes they wer brittle but great unusual color.
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That's a beautiful piece. Love it!
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Beautiful. Never seen actinolite that light green before. All our actinolite around here is very dark green and is in the asbestos form.