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Author Topic: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?  (Read 3989 times)

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Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« on: May 04, 2016, 02:36:58 PM »
Dendritic ID help needed, maybe Paiute or Amethyst Sage?  Agate or Jasper? Anyone have ideas?
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2016, 04:42:20 PM »
Australian  dendritic Opal?
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2016, 05:29:43 PM »
Looks like amy sage to me.  I have some that is yellow with dendrites like that.  Also, it does have some of the purple in the middle, just like mine.
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2016, 04:52:45 AM »
I agree with the dendritic opal.  I have quite a bit that looks exactly like that.  Mohs 6.
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2016, 02:30:49 PM »
Hmm. I've been searching images of amethyst sage and australian dendritic opal, and finding lots of similar stones called by both names.  Most have a high shine and some translucency.  I don't want to mislabel it, especially since the finished brooch/pendant will be for sale. 

I bought it as is, tumble polished.  It doesn't have a high shine and is completely opaque, so perhaps it would not be incorrect to call it dendritic jasper?
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2016, 05:42:22 PM »
I think you'd be fine labeling it that. 
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2016, 04:16:45 PM »
Check the hardness.
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2016, 11:07:01 AM »
Scratches easily with a pocket knife
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2016, 12:27:05 PM »
Amethyst sage would not scratch with a knife.  This would be dendritic opal.  Almost certainly from Australia.
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2016, 01:12:44 PM »
Thank you
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Re: Dendritic ID help needed, maybe paiute or amethyst sage?
« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2016, 04:33:31 PM »
Mystery solved!   :glasses9:
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