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Bobbymoon

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Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« on: July 20, 2022, 07:09:40 PM »
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*blue rock.jpg (174.79 kB . 1125x947 - viewed 1076 times)Found at the local thrift store. I have tried to figure it out…very brittle and seems light for its size. Is it chrysocolla?

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I am guessing pic three is moss agate?
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Pick four was labeled Lepidote with albite.
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vitzitziltecpatl

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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2022, 05:49:52 PM »
That blue reminds me more of copper sulfate than chrysocolla.

Definitely a moss agate in the third shot.

Need a mineralogist - or a more knowledgable hound than me - for that last one.
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2022, 11:13:53 AM »
That is nice lepidolite. Some of it turns brown when left in sunshine for long periods of time.
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Bobbymoon

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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2022, 01:21:39 PM »
copper sulfate should dissolve right?
Thanks for the reply’s!!!
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2022, 03:56:14 PM »
Yeah, I've bought copper sulfate in solid form, crushed it and dissolved it to make tree root killer.
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2022, 06:37:42 PM »
OK, i have dropped a piece in boiling water and left it for a couple of days, and it doesn't dissolve
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2022, 06:58:30 AM »
Excellent. Is it translucent?

That's an incredibly vivid blue, and the greens nearby indicate the colors are displaying pretty well on my monitor. Nice rock!
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2022, 10:24:55 PM »
That's an amazingly intense blue... so much so that I wonder whether it might be slag. Are there any signs of bubbles? How translucent is it?
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2022, 10:34:05 PM »
I'm thinking gem silica with that intense blue/green...
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2022, 07:33:47 AM »
Gem silica is also what I was wondering about when I asked about translucency.
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2022, 06:41:13 PM »
The edges are translucent green but the inside is pretty opaque…there’s bands that seem more clear and seem like they would be translucent
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2022, 06:50:48 PM »
Here is a couple more photos
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2022, 06:52:07 PM »
Penny for scale
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #13 on: July 27, 2022, 06:52:00 AM »
That breaks like Turquoise. You may have come up very nicely there! I mean, even moreso than previously surmised!
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Re: Thrift store finds Chrysocolla?
« Reply #14 on: July 27, 2022, 08:24:24 AM »
 Chrysocolla crumbles like that too. Looks too crumbly to cut an polish without stabilizing so it isn't gem silica but it does look to me like chrysocolla.
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