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| Search found 27 matches |
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 Topic: Red Quartz |
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| ALshawani Replies: 4 Views: 1411 |
 Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: May 25, 2022 15:03 Subject: Re: Red Quartz |
| Excellent sample | |
| Topic: Is this a ruby? |
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| ALshawani Replies: 12 Views: 2400 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: May 08, 2022 17:08 Subject: Re: Is this a ruby? |
| I do not think that sapphire, this stone is not transparent, and you have to measure its hardness and density to make sure of the type of stone | |
| Topic: Silvia's Collection |
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| ALshawani Replies: 206 Views: 61493 |
Forum: Women's Private Collections Posted: Oct 12, 2021 05:41 Subject: Re: Silvia's Collection |
| Welcome Silvia, and thank you for sharing with us. We had fun! | |
| Topic: The Tobi Martin Mineral Collection - (38) |
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| ALshawani Replies: 20 Views: 9847 |
Forum: Featured Columns of FMF Posted: Oct 12, 2021 05:32 Subject: Re: The Tobi Martin Mineral Collection - (38) |
| Very cool and very beautiful, I congratulate you for this wonderful effort... and thank you for sharing with us, we enjoyed it.. | |
| Topic: Help identifying |
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| ALshawani Replies: 4 Views: 2273 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Jul 03, 2021 05:07 Subject: Re: Help identifying |
| Impossible to tell from this picture | |
| Topic: what stones are these? |
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| ALshawani Replies: 15 Views: 5829 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Mar 23, 2021 08:15 Subject: Re: what stones are these? |
| I see it as unfinished opal | |
| Topic: I want to know this stone |
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| ALshawani Replies: 11 Views: 5006 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Feb 28, 2021 15:50 Subject: Re: I want to know this stone |
| What tools are available at home that can measure the hardness of any stone? What is the degree of hardness of each tool? | |
| Topic: I want to know this stone |
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| ALshawani Replies: 11 Views: 5006 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Feb 24, 2021 06:27 Subject: Re: I want to know this stone |
| The stone is translucent to translucent. Perhaps some external impurities are affecting the transparency | |
| Topic: I want to know this stone |
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| ALshawani Replies: 11 Views: 5006 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Feb 24, 2021 06:18 Subject: Re: I want to know this stone |
| Yes it scratches the glass | |
| Topic: I want to know this stone |
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| ALshawani Replies: 11 Views: 5006 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Feb 24, 2021 06:16 Subject: Re: I want to know this stone |
| I tried the knife and the screw and finally the bit of the drill, and they were all scratched by the stone. The thing that revived me the most is the hardness of the stone. | |
| Topic: I want to know this stone |
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| ALshawani Replies: 11 Views: 5006 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Feb 23, 2021 16:44 Subject: Re: I want to know this stone |
| with Masonry Drill Bit | |
| Topic: I want to know this stone |
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| ALshawani Replies: 11 Views: 5006 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Feb 23, 2021 16:15 Subject: Re: I want to know this stone |
| This is the same type | |
| Topic: I want to know this stone |
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| ALshawani Replies: 11 Views: 5006 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Feb 23, 2021 16:12 Subject: I want to know this stone |
| I didn't recognize the stone yet, the density of stone from 2.60 to 2.99
The hardness is higher than 8.5 |
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| Topic: This Forum is from now a "Fellow" of the Mineralogical Record magazine |
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| ALshawani Replies: 3 Views: 29044 |
Forum: The Mineralogical Record Posted: Dec 17, 2020 08:15 Subject: Re: This Forum is from now a "Fellow" of the Mineralogical Record magazine |
| What is the forum account on LinkedIn? | |
| Topic: Who can help me |
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| ALshawani Replies: 26 Views: 18142 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 11, 2020 15:50 Subject: Re: Who can help me |
| Al,
Your new discoveries are very interesting, and once again share some similarities to samples recovered from the W.I.S. impact-related ejecta deposits. Man, I wish I could go exploring with ... |
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| Topic: Who can help me |
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| ALshawani Replies: 26 Views: 18142 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 10, 2020 05:15 Subject: Re: Who can help me |
| Hello all
Yesterday, I headed southwest from the first place, about 30 kilometers away, and in a place like rocks, either fiery or tense with high heat, I found a strange formation that I could not d ... |
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| Topic: Who can help me |
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| ALshawani Replies: 26 Views: 18142 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 07, 2020 15:51 Subject: Re: Who can help me |
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James Tate I can only thank you for the follow-up and help. Yes, I think that the first and third samples met me a lot during my research and my tour of the desert ... I will focus on these e ... |
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| Topic: Who can help me |
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| ALshawani Replies: 26 Views: 18142 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 06, 2020 11:08 Subject: Re: Who can help me |
| Al,
You've got an intriguing mystery on your hands. The fact of your material found near the Tunisian border gave me a better search area for a suspected impact crater location. The infamous L ... |
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| Topic: Who can help me |
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| ALshawani Replies: 26 Views: 18142 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 06, 2020 11:03 Subject: Re: Who can help me |
| Al,
You've got an intriguing mystery on your hands. The fact of your material found near the Tunisian border gave me a better search area for a suspected impact crater location. The infamous L ... |
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| Topic: Who can help me |
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| ALshawani Replies: 26 Views: 18142 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 04, 2020 13:51 Subject: Re: Who can help me |
| Thank you, it really stimulated me, and I am also sure that there is a high temperature in the place in terms of the rocks affected by the heat, and for this I had said that it is in the volcanic rock ... | |
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