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 Topic: Need help to identify a stone |
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| SteveB Replies: 2 Views: 827 |
 Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Feb 08, 2024 00:01 Subject: Re: Need help to identify a stone |
| well its clearly a common river tumbled piece of quartz | |
| Topic: Need to identify black stone |
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| SteveB Replies: 21 Views: 2737 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Jan 16, 2024 21:51 Subject: Re: Need to identify black stone |
| far too small and photos too impossible for identification and needs more tests. black rock and beach says to me bonfire garbage could be anything from rock to burnt wood to a piece of cheap meat burn ... | |
| Topic: Need to identify rock washed ashore by waves on the beach |
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| SteveB Replies: 4 Views: 1169 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Jan 16, 2024 08:15 Subject: Re: Need to identify rock washed ashore by waves on the beach |
| A low density volcanic mineral similar to pumice if you break a piece off you should be able to see the inside colour and see if its uniform throughout or only dark near the surface where it may have ... | |
| Topic: Is there anything that could make you give up mineral collecting? |
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| SteveB Replies: 13 Views: 11581 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: Sep 10, 2023 16:22 Subject: Re: Is there anything that could make you give up mineral collecting? |
| james it really sucks you have MS and ibhopevyou are doing lots of mental exercises to help slow the decline and i geuss itvdepends on who you intrinsically are to put in the effort for yourself. ms ... | |
| Topic: Caring Collection |
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| SteveB Replies: 3 Views: 7818 |
Forum: Conserving, Preparing and Cleaning Minerals Posted: Aug 14, 2023 07:58 Subject: Caring Collection |
| More important I feel is preparing for your death, e.g., your Will. If you get hit by a bus tomorrow and die what happens to your collection? Have you made preparations to avoid someone just saying th ... | |
| Topic: New species accepted by the IMA? |
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| SteveB Replies: 10 Views: 11153 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Aug 06, 2023 12:40 Subject: Re: New species accepted by the IMA? |
| I'm not sure it's a relevant question though I think the face of the earth needs to be eradicated and everything returned to the molten core and allowed to follow physics and chemistry back to cooling ... | |
| Topic: Equipment for part time hobbyist. |
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| SteveB Replies: 2 Views: 3906 |
Forum: Off-Topic and Introductions Posted: May 30, 2023 11:31 Subject: Re: Equipment for part time hobbyist. |
| This is the wrong question to ask here. This forum is ONLY for mineral specimens not for shaping, polishing, cutting, or buying/selling them. You should find a lapidary forum. | |
| Topic: Jasper? |
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| SteveB Replies: 6 Views: 8023 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: May 27, 2023 22:03 Subject: Re: Jasper? |
| The pink mineral is feldspar - the cleavage planes are obvious. I can't speak to other minerals present. | |
| Topic: Clean and Polish Calcite |
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| SteveB Replies: 3 Views: 8828 |
Forum: Conserving, Preparing and Cleaning Minerals Posted: May 18, 2023 10:10 Subject: Re: Clean and Polish Calcite |
| Something I do is use a small plastic basket with specimens in it. I spray with an organic degreaser product and let sit for a day or two in the sink for it to work into cracks, etc. Then I pop the b ... | |
| Topic: Semi-spherical exterior, radiating interior stone |
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| SteveB Replies: 31 Views: 12587 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Feb 10, 2023 12:49 Subject: Re: Semi-spherical exterior, radiating interior stone |
| iron concretion was my gut but non magnetic limonite is close enough. | |
| Topic: Interesting fake Cavansite |
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| SteveB Replies: 3 Views: 10238 |
Forum: Incorrect classification and fakes Posted: Feb 01, 2023 21:28 Subject: Re: Interesting fake Cavansite |
| theres a LOT of fakes and lab grown minerals and gemstones cheaply available on Alibaba from China misrepresented as authentic natural minerals and a lot of sellers in western markets are buying them ... | |
| Topic: unknown - from the same bucket :) |
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| SteveB Replies: 3 Views: 4698 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Dec 30, 2022 02:40 Subject: Re: unknown - from the same bucket :) |
| yep piece of sand polished glass not rock or mineral. | |
| Topic: How hard is it to find a new mineral species? |
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| SteveB Replies: 10 Views: 6233 |
Forum: Minerals and Mineralogy Posted: Nov 17, 2022 20:50 Subject: Re: How hard is ti to find a new mineral species? |
| New? probably difficult, but I think more problematic is multiple species actually being the same Mineral defined from say different locations by different means such as a seam split across the bounda ... | |
| Topic: Cool rock |
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| SteveB Replies: 4 Views: 3618 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Aug 21, 2022 17:00 Subject: Re: Cool rock |
| It's a porphyry. Google porphyry formation to learn how it forms. Porphyry are very common and interesting to look at. | |
| Topic: Metallic grey mineral - request for identity help |
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| SteveB Replies: 7 Views: 4039 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Aug 09, 2022 07:39 Subject: Re: Metallic grey mineral - request for identity help |
| I agree with your feeling it’s a mining related mineral. Mica in various forms is mined and used in many products. Crushed it is mixed into cosmetics to give ladies a “glowing” look since the mica ref ... | |
| Topic: Metallic grey mineral - request for identity help |
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| SteveB Replies: 7 Views: 4039 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Aug 09, 2022 06:31 Subject: Re: Metallic grey mineral - request for identity help |
| Yes! Fish scales perfect description. Muscovite seems to be more what we’re looking towards what we both have. Mine is somewhere in my unsorted/ unlabeled specimens and is greenish. | |
| Topic: Metallic grey mineral - request for identity help |
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| SteveB Replies: 7 Views: 4039 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Aug 09, 2022 04:38 Subject: Re: Metallic grey mineral - request for identity help |
| I’m thinking it might be something in the mica family. Hard to tell from the photos but I have specimens that have a metallic sheen to the but are very light.
Can you break off any plates from the su ... |
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| Topic: wisdom quartz |
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| SteveB Replies: 6 Views: 4170 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Apr 16, 2022 09:15 Subject: Re: wisdom quartz |
| are these crystals-wisdom quartzes? thanks for answering
q9AIkv73UCg NO, No such thing as Wisdom Quartz, or Spirit Quartz or any other idiotic term. Its just Quartz, very plain and common worldw ... |
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| Topic: Help needed regarding first emerald |
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| SteveB Replies: 2 Views: 2114 |
Forum: FOR BEGINNERS: What is it? Where is it from? Posted: Apr 13, 2022 16:38 Subject: Re: Help needed regarding first emerald |
| +1 to Peter’s response. To clarify, this forum is for natural mineral specimens, NOT cut, polished or tumbled or in any way unnatural or interfered with. Financial questions are ignored. If you don't ... | |
| Topic: What is the correct name for this rock? |
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| SteveB Replies: 6 Views: 9387 |
Forum: What is it? - Where is it from? Posted: Mar 28, 2022 18:24 Subject: Re: What is the correct name for this rock? |
| I’m thinking Gneiss, thats a guess NOT an identification | |
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