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[Phishisgroovin]

i cant believe the mail people broke the Onyx top off.

[iceopals]

Ohhhhh...   My aching head........     
Ok, I'll admit.   You want to talk turquoise?   Opal??   I got your back.    And any other number of stones that have tweaked my interest over the last 20 years.   (24!!!   I am AMAZED out how quickly time flies).   But I am going to have to trundle my way through these identifications and figure out which is which, and I am sure I am still going to have to come back for some clarification.   Wow!   The variety!!!!!    And even the descriptions.   Pale green with sparklies??   I have something I had identified as mostly lavender polkadots.   ha!  I'll go do some labeling, some selective identification and see what is left.   Thank you so much for taking the time to identify the material, now I just need to figure out what is what.   

[Phishisgroovin]

That bland opaque stone with rust and red swirls and dots on it. I thought the spots were green. They're purple?

[iceopals]

The pale boy, yes!   Ruddy red/purple.   And I felt even the main stone couldn't decide if it was lavender or pale green, but I guess I can see it as green.   I even went and turned on my bright work lights so I could be sure! 

[Enchantra]

Just a thought but I bought a cabochon online from someone on FB, and in regular room lighting it looks like a greyed khaki color with white banding.  Put it under a daylight bulb and it comes alive - purples, pinks and greens with white banding.  Put some of these stones under daylight and see what they turn out like, might be different than inside.

[iceopals]

Interesting!   I will have to give that a try!!   I've also wondered if maybe one of them had a bit of a reaction over time with the air and had changed a bit, that once cut and polished they might look different than either of us suspected?

[Phishisgroovin]

that stone came from the same general area Ellensburg Blue comes from, from the same Basalt rocks that shot up from the ground when the Mountain range of Blewett pass was created.

[vitzitziltecpatl]

The Blewett Pass stone intrigues me because it's translucent and has little platelets of something reflective. It does also have little green spots in addition to the reddish-purple ones. The translucence should really let the stone glow in sunlight.