[Rockhounds] 'Stitchite'

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Hi Horst,

Good to hear things are well with you. Glad your move has gone well and  
you are still active.

I did end up going back and acquire a specimen before the show closed.  
The Russian dealer did not want to reveal his source for the tumbled  
specimens at first, but he finally volunteered that the Stichtite  
specimen came from Stichtite Hill, Dundas, Tasmania, and showed me his  
stock bag from under the table that had a full label.

If he had put up a sign saying Type Locality specimens I'll bet he  
would have sold twice as many. We've had the dealer at our show for a  
few years. He is knowledgable; the other dealers say he is strange, but  
can be trusted. He has an amazing collection of polished specimens at  
decent prices and does a good business with those making jewelry.

I'm still interested in finding a rough specimen, but I'll take a TL  
specimen that is tumbled to add a new species to my collection.

Cheers!

Kreigh



On Monday, Apr 13, 2009, at 14:29 America/Detroit, Horst Windisch wrote:

> Hi Kreigh  et al,
>
> A few hours ago, I returned from our 42nd GEMBOREE (am the only person  
> who has attended all 42) organised this year by the Natal Mineral and  
> Gem Society (on behalf of the Federation of Southern African Gem and  
> Mineralogical Socities), so only latching on to this subject at a a  
> later stage.
>
> The mineral is definitely stichtite and the green mineral is  
> serpentine. We have collected this material on various occassions at  
> Kaapse Hoop (near Nelspruit in the Mpumalanga Province (known as  
> Eastern Transvaal before 1994). There are two other localities in the  
> world whewre this mineral is found - Tasmania has already been  
> mentioned, the other locality is somewhere in Canada. (At this point  
> in time cannot check on the exaxt locality as everything has been  
> packed away at three different localities, as two weeks ago we have  
> moved to a Retirement Centre, after living for 47 years in our house  
> in Groenkloof, Pretoria) Prof. Bruce Cairncross wrote an article on  
> stichtite, which was published in the South African Lapidary Magazine,  
> and a copy of this issue is somewhere amongst the 480 baxes that I  
> packed my minerals, books,  magazines and correwspondence in.
>
> We collect this mineral in a road cutting between Barberton and Kaapse  
> Hoop, Which is about 250 km East of Pretoria.
>
> Regards,
>
> Horst
>
>
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> iFrom: "Kreigh Tomaszewski" <Kreigh at tomaszewski.net>
> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem  
> collectors" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:37 AM
> Subject: [Rockhounds] 'Stitchite'
>
>
>> I came across some purple and green 'Stitchite' at one of the dealers
>> at our local show that was being sold by the gram. A Google search
>> after I got home shows it has all kinds of metaphysical properties.
>> Does anyone have any idea what this stuff really is and where it might
>> be coming from?
>>
>> Kreigh
>>
>>
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