Stone ID help please

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by KSW, Nov 29, 2019.

  1. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Just out of interest!.
    Random dyed rock or something else?. I think the pink ones are possibly coral.
    Green is cold and pretty hard. I just managed to put a tiny scratch on it with a skewer.
    What do you think?
    Replacement gem tester, Mary Contrary Mark II, says it could be aventurine, demantoid, tsavorite or jadeite if that helps!
    :)
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  2. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Forgot to add I tried with acetone to see if any dye comes off but it doesn’t .
     
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  3. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    The orange bits are agate. The green one ... I never have known what that is.
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Since Mary seems to focus on green stones ca 7 on the Mohs scale, and since the bracelet looks very Chinese, my vote goes to green turquoise. It look odd for turquoise, but China has all natural colour varieties of turquoise, including this lime green.
    The orangey beads are carnelian, another favourite of the Chinese, but I am fine with calling them agate. Both agate and carnelian are types of chalcedony.

    There are other lime green stones, including gaspeite, which is much lower on Mohs scale. And there is another one which is occasionally used in Navajo jewellery, but I just can't remember the name right now, so I can't check the hardness.
     
  5. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I have looked & looked at this & not weighed in because I don't know. Can only say that turquoise is significantly softer than garnet. I have seen turquoise this color, but not in such large, uniformly colored pieces. My never having seen it before of course proves nothing. Gaspeite is the right color, but as AJ noted, very soft. I'm not entirely convinced the green beads are stone at all. Carnelian seems likely enough for the orange beads, although something about how they look in photos also makes my antennae waggle.

    @Any Jewelry think gaspeite may be the green stone used in some NA work you are thinking of. An eBay search for 'Zuni gaspeite' turns up lots of examples.

    My favorite sentence of the day:

    Gaspéite from Widgiemooltha is associated with talc carbonated komatiite...
     
    Last edited: Nov 30, 2019
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  6. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Yes! Perfect!
    Any quote containing Australian Aboriginal place names sounds wonderful.

    Woolloomooloo Bay, in Sydney::happy:

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