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Post by washingtonrocks on Mar 28, 2015 10:52:48 GMT -5
snowmom, remarkable how much some of your finds resemble what I sometimes find around here. This one in particular:
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Post by snowmom on Mar 28, 2015 13:22:23 GMT -5
snowmom, remarkable how much some of your finds resemble what I sometimes find around here. This one in particular: its all Canadian shield material, right? I think that's where the answer lies.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2015 23:23:02 GMT -5
snowmom, remarkable how much some of your finds resemble what I sometimes find around here. This one in particular: This one indeed does appear very similar to what Kris Rowe is peddling (misrepresenting really) as Blue G or whatever flavor he is using in his flowery prose this month. When you cut it, is it very super maxi hard?? Rowe's garbage is also beyond hard at mohs 7.5.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 10, 2015 4:45:20 GMT -5
I didn't cut it, so can't say for sure, maybe 6.5 or more but it is glasslike density and that shiny surface is not polished, its how it came off the saw. Very hard and very dense. I still don't know what it is "for sure". Except that it is pretty. Shotgunner, you don't have to hold back you can tell us how you really feel about Kris Rowe's selling representations.
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Post by Fossilman on Apr 10, 2015 9:53:50 GMT -5
Whatever it is,I still like it!!! It just being green in color,got me hooked! Thumbs up
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Post by Pat on Apr 10, 2015 9:56:21 GMT -5
@shotgunner I don't remember the Blue G having any big white splotches. Maybe this is a variation of his Lawsonite.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 10:07:13 GMT -5
@shotgunner I don't remember the Blue G having any big white splotches. Maybe this is a variation of his Lawsonite. BlueG lawsonite same thing. Some had areas of different material. If anybody wants some its free. Just cover postage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 10:15:58 GMT -5
snowmom Please show picture of the outside of that rock
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 10:24:14 GMT -5
I agree with Mel: gem glaucophane -- www.flickr.com/photos/36618387@N06/5486532190www.flickr.com/photos/36618387@N06/5477103508It is an indicator for jade, which you do seem to find in Washington. In California it occurs in the Clear Creek area, where there is jade. It also occurs in Paso Robles in a greener form: www.flickr.com/photos/36618387@N06/5477103508Some people also said this stuff was diabase, and there are visual similarities. However, it is found where there are other metamorphic rocks (again, jade) formed by subduction, and diabase is volcanic. The expert on this stuff appears to be Chris Rowe of RFTF (see my Panoche Hills set) who now calls it "Blue G." It seems some people on this board have goe out to Area 54 and "The Big Pile" with him. Kris had those tested and its massive lawsonite with a few other stuff mixed in. Glaucophane was the guess he used to market it originally.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 10, 2015 12:38:49 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 12:42:21 GMT -5
It's different exterior.
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Post by snowmom on Apr 10, 2015 16:52:30 GMT -5
it has a very blue green color 'in person', water here has loads of iron which stains things yellow. How about this one, then for blue?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 21:46:15 GMT -5
the texture is way diff. do you have A QUARTZ CRYSTAL? Does it scratch this rock?
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Post by snowmom on Apr 11, 2015 4:53:58 GMT -5
quartz will scratch it, it is about a 5.5 to 6 hardness, polished a window to see what it would look like. nice light blue and sort of dusty blue mottled shading. doesn't seem to be translucent, but I'd never tried to see if it was. I'll have to dig it out of the pantry, play with it a bit and take a pic of the polished area.
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