chriss
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Post by chriss on Aug 29, 2015 20:53:55 GMT -5
Hello everyone I'm Chris. I'm from NC. My son and I went "mining" while on vacation a few weeks back. He had a lot of fun so I went and picked us up a tumbler and have started tumbling our finds. While at one of the gem mines another customer had a tree limb fall on his car and it tied up the employee, understandably. So we weren't able to get much help identifying our finds. While I was able to identify most of them on my own one has me stumped. It's the one on the bottom left if anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it.
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Post by chriss on Aug 30, 2015 20:24:55 GMT -5
Here are a few more pics after it's been in the tumbler for a couple weeks. First with flash With out flash And holding it up to a light And a couple other ones going right now too
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Post by Jugglerguy on Aug 30, 2015 20:28:52 GMT -5
I'm not very good with identification, but welcome! Those blue specks we really cool looking.
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chriss
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Post by chriss on Aug 31, 2015 7:21:43 GMT -5
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mrzulu
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Post by mrzulu on Aug 31, 2015 10:31:37 GMT -5
Rocks are so much fun!
Honestly, other than playing rock music(the harder the better,) I can't think of anything more fun than rocks and all their wondrous stories they hold.
Welcome!
Without actually seeing, handling and some minor testing, the stone with the blue seems to have optics similar to labradorite.
Very nice finds!
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chriss
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Post by chriss on Sept 1, 2015 6:26:45 GMT -5
Rocks are so much fun! Honestly, other than playing rock music(the harder the better,) I can't think of anything more fun than rocks and all their wondrous stories they hold. Welcome! Without actually seeing, handling and some minor testing, the stone with the blue seems to have optics similar to labradorite. Very nice finds! Haha heck yea, love me some rock. Thanks!!
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Post by gingerkid on Sept 1, 2015 6:57:23 GMT -5
Hi, chriss, and welcome to RTH from Georgia! Wow, that's wild that a tree limb fell on a gem mine customer's vehicle. I hope no one was injured. Which gem mine did you visit in NC? Very nice tumbles! Not sure, but the first one (pear shape) looks like it may be a feldspar, possibly moonstone. The purple colored one could be amethyst (quartz). Not sure about the green tumbles. Serpentine, hiddenite, marble, epidote...maybe perform a scratch test on them? Last one could be sodalite.
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Post by lhr on Sept 1, 2015 7:02:02 GMT -5
Whatever they are, they are BEAUTIFUL!
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chriss
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Post by chriss on Sept 1, 2015 10:07:33 GMT -5
Hi, chriss, and welcome to RTH from Georgia! Wow, that's wild that a tree limb fell on a gem mine customer's vehicle. I hope no one was injured. Which gem mine did you visit in NC? Very nice tumbles! Not sure, but the first one (pear shape) looks like it may be a feldspar, possibly moonstone. The purple colored one could be amethyst (quartz). Not sure about the green tumbles. Serpentine, hiddenite, marble, epidote...maybe perform a scratch test on them? Last one could be sodalite. It was a gem mine in Maggie Valley, I think it was just called Maggie Valley Gem Mine. No one was injured thankfully, but it did a number to the windshield of the car it hit. We also visited Cherokee Ruby Mine and Emerald Hollow Mine. We did some tiny corundum and a few garnets. But mostly red jaspers and quartz. We got the "salted" buckets just to make sure we did find something. My son is too little to be taken real mining just yet.
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Post by gemfeller on Sept 1, 2015 10:37:41 GMT -5
Based on your images I'd guess the stone with blue highlights contains Labradorite, as already mentioned by GK. Specifically I'd guess it's Larvikite, an igneous stone speckled with Labradorite that's frequently used as a building stone.
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