Featured Here's the other Ring- What is this GREEN STONE?

This is the other ring I bought with the one I showed here last night.
It has obviously been resized/repaired before, so whatever hallmarks it might have had are gone now. All I can say is it is silver; kind of a Brutalist style, I guess?
I'd appreciate any input on what this mottled green stone might be. Thanx in advance...

 

Maybe Connemara Marble.

 

Green turquoise?

 

Variscite?

 

Yes, Brutalist. Very, not kind of.

Maybe something like these beads?


https://beadparadise.com/products/fantastic-strand-of-mottled-green-garnet-stones

 

Maybe...
Could be just about anything, for all I know!

 

I'd just call it Random Pretty Rock and leave it at that.

 

It IS that- but is that how YOU search for jewelry online?

 

I don't search for jewelry on line. I used to sell though. I'd have called it a brutalist silver ring with green cabochon, size (number).

 

Good question as to stone, I'd like to know IF you find out. Don't have a gem tester with you?

 

No, never had one. Maybe time to get an inexpensive one- but I don't deal a LOT in gemstones, so it's not critical.

 

What's an "inexpensive" one because please I would like one but anything that tests more than diamonds is like $250. I too don't have enough to make it worth it but boy I want it!

 

That is what I would call it too.

 

I have a cheap 'diamond tester' that tests anything on the Mohs scale from ca 3-10. It was $20 or thereabouts

There is a thread on testing:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/recommendations-for-testing-kits-please.18018/#post-246340

 

Mine cost about that. It's no good for professionally testing anything but diamonds, but it'll give you an idea.

 

I have one of those, of course- and a separate Moissonite tester... I've never found a Moissonite, so I rarely use that one any more.
I read somewhere about using the cheap diamond testers for a ballpark gemstone test, but what I don't get is, for diamonds you are supposed to set the "sensitivity" according to the size of the diamond. In my experience, ANY diamond will usually light the whole board, regardless of size, so I don't know what the point of that is... BUT- how do you set the sensitivity for other gemstones, if you judge the stone by the number of lights lit? Set the sensitivity with NO lights, or 1 lit, or...?

 

Yes, i have one. I will check the thread later.

Same to all of this. Best i use it for reliably is "is it glass" and even then i still second guess myself.

 

I always set mine on 4, whatever the stone is. And you're right, a diamond will light the thing up like a Christmas tree no matter how small.

 

I was wondering about the setting in relation to other gemstones. I read the LINKED thread about testing, where it said to count the number of lights for hardness... Are the lights going to go DOWN for softer pieces? I know we aren't looking for soft stones, I'm just wondering if the reading remains accurate regardless of the sensitivity setting (as with diamonds), or whether that setting might actually affect the test results. That linked thread didn't say anything about that.

 

Only if the stone has a lower heat conductivity than the setting, which is very rare. That said, of course our cheap testers are not as accurate as the top notch ones.