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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 3102615, member: 55&quot;]Sure....but not uniformly mottled with white like the Chinese carvings I was thinking of.&nbsp; They&#039;ve also found a nice uniform black stone that looks a whole lot like argillite, so appearance of the stone, alone, is not much of a guide.... style though, is harder to fake.&nbsp; But really experience is the best guide of course.</p><p>( I&#039;ve had a nice conversation with Christian White, describing in detail the climb up to the argillite beds, and coming back down with a 40-pound pack of rock on one&#039;s back - one can see why it is a fairly rare material)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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