[Rockhounds] picture of the mystery rough

[Dennis Buffenmyer]

Lapidry at aol.com wrote:
> Looks like a low grade chrysoprase to me. That's even before I read that it  
> had come with chrysoprase.
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> Dan 
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> In a message dated 2/29/2008 7:06:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> jeanne at jeannius.com writes:
>
> I  finally got to the studio yesterday, and grabbed the other piece of
> the  stone I cut...the leftover rough.  It's aprox. 1-1.5 inches in
> length  and about 12 or so mm thick w/ crust.
>
> you can see it at  http://www.creativecabs.com/unknowngreen/rough.jpg
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> I want to ID it so I  can either use it or sell it, either for jewelry or
> as loose cabs. I'm just  having trouble defining it as anything in
> particular. BTW. The parcel came  from a gal here in the USA who'd been
> collecting odds and ends for year,  but didn't remember what everything
> was. If it helps, it was in a bag with  some chrysoprase, and some other
> pale, opaque green white seam material  that I thought might be some sort
> of variscite. But this material looked  different from  that.
>
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> Jeanne
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I think determinative tests would be if chrysoprase ( a silicate I 
believe ) a steel knife should do no real damage to it. If serpentine or 
serpentenized limestone, then steel knife should leave a fairly decent 
scratch??