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If it's amber it'd be really lightweight. is it?
Otherwise, could be golden rutilated quartz, especially if you see little golden rutiles (lines) throughout or sunstone. It's stunning, like a little sun!
That last one is really cool too. No idea what it is though it looks melted.
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If it's pink in colour that'd be my best guess too. Hard to tell in the pic.
I have a very similar one that I picked up at a wedding.
Had it since I was young. I'm pretty sure my grandma gave it to me
I love your 2 finds. I love to view rocks as they appear in nature - non-polished - and you can see the thrust of their crystalline growth - the lattices that nature makes.
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Any thoughts on the green one being fluorite? It looks just like the stones in a necklace I have, and I know it is fluorite. It is quite heavy!
I would love to know what this might be - I couldn't walk past it this weekend, like it was demanding I take it home (so I did!)... The thumbdrive gives an idea of its size...
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Is that clear quartz sandwiched in? Looks like some purple color there, too. I've heard of blue quartz but have never seen it. Yep, that one would have come home with me, too.
Colours of the cosmos embedded in the rock. That piece could have come from anywhere!
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Definitely peacock ore, aka bornite. You have a nice large one there.
First time using this message board. I’m not sure if I’m posting this correctly, but what I have here is a nearly 3lb double terminated quartz. I’m not sure of the type, it came from China. It reminds me of Tibetan black quartz, but the ones I have of those are so small compared to this one. I was also thinking Morion Quartz but this is so black. There are some translucent parts but it is very dark. I did some reading and I also don’t think it was irradiated unnaturally. What do you think?
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Well, that is quite a piece of quartz! I'm not an expert on this, but we do have a few around who are. Some are on spring break trips, so it might be a couple of days before you get a reply.
The first thing that comes to mind is smokey quartz, so morion is the same thing. It has variations in shade of black and can have some brown.
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That's beautiful! Particularly that perfect face in the first photo! And huge too.
I understand morion and Tibetan black quartzes to be really dark smoky quartzes, which come from different geographic locations. I remember reading that all that darkness lets a lot of light be absorbed and reflected back (or something cool like that).
I found a person selling really dark ones from Australia which really impressed me because they were clearly removed with care and grace. They are holding space at my doorways as I find them to be enormously protective stones and seem perfect for entryways.
Wherever it comes from that seems a wonderful piece!
I understand morion and Tibetan black quartzes to be really dark smoky quartzes, which come from different geographic locations. I remember reading that all that darkness lets a lot of light be absorbed and reflected back (or something cool like that).
I found a person selling really dark ones from Australia which really impressed me because they were clearly removed with care and grace. They are holding space at my doorways as I find them to be enormously protective stones and seem perfect for entryways.
Wherever it comes from that seems a wonderful piece!
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Best guesses:
Top left: rhodochrosite (or is it the other rho... I get these mixed up often). Top right looks like quartz with some very yellow inclusions: sulfer? Looks like beautiful form
Next row yellow one may be bowtonite (golden laboradorite) or a calcite or yellow quartz.
Big blue one celestite? Little blue one probably turqoise though howlite often gets coloured turqoise; also a cool stone with its own properties.
Next row green one; no idea; lots of possibilities. Green + red one: anyolite aka ruby in green zoisite (beauty!)
Top left: rhodochrosite (or is it the other rho... I get these mixed up often). Top right looks like quartz with some very yellow inclusions: sulfer? Looks like beautiful form
Next row yellow one may be bowtonite (golden laboradorite) or a calcite or yellow quartz.
Big blue one celestite? Little blue one probably turqoise though howlite often gets coloured turqoise; also a cool stone with its own properties.
Next row green one; no idea; lots of possibilities. Green + red one: anyolite aka ruby in green zoisite (beauty!)
I got quite a few rocks and crystals when my mother brought them home from her classroom and I need help identifying them. Some I think might be amethyst or fluorite. One of the green ones I think could be calcite, but I'm not sure on any of them.
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