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Sun_and_Saturn
August 14th, 2005, 07:40 PM
Went to the shop today and bought a small pouch of stones ("fill a bag for $5). I picked out the ones that stood out to me.

I have 8 stones, 4 of which I cannot identify.

1. Blood red/rust red, opaque, fairly light weight.

2. weird shade of green, almost a light forest green color. I think it might be green aventurine?

3. smoky blue with light blue, dark blue and white flecks

4. Kind of hard to describe. Looks kinda smoky lavendar at the top and gets lighter toward the bottom. If you hold it to the light, you can see the light coming through, but it isn't really transparent. Kind of reminds me of the sky during a thunderstorm.

can someone help me?

CzechWoods
August 15th, 2005, 07:04 AM
could you please post pictures ?

or surf this site www.czechwoodsgems.com (www.czechwoodsgems.com) looking for look-alikes?

CzechWoods
August 15th, 2005, 07:42 AM
Went to the shop today and bought a small pouch of stones ("fill a bag for $5). I picked out the ones that stood out to me.

I have 8 stones, 4 of which I cannot identify.

1. Blood red/rust red, opaque, fairly light weight.

2. weird shade of green, almost a light forest green color. I think it might be green aventurine?

3. smoky blue with light blue, dark blue and white flecks

4. Kind of hard to describe. Looks kinda smoky lavendar at the top and gets lighter toward the bottom. If you hold it to the light, you can see the light coming through, but it isn't really transparent. Kind of reminds me of the sky during a thunderstorm.

can someone help me?


1, could be either silex/jasper
http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/jasper1jaspis1.msnw (http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/jasper1jaspis1.msnw)
unfortunatelly, i havent scanned the silex jasper jet, which are kinda rust red and opaque

or maybe
mohogany obsidian
http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/obsidian1.msnw (http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/obsidian1.msnw)


2,3, here are all kind of aventurines. #3 could be blue (not indigo) aventurine
http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/aventurine.msnw (http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/aventurine.msnw)

4. could be indian amethyst, which is very dark and sometimes only translucent
http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/amethyst.msnw (http://de.msnusers.com/czechwoodsgems/amethyst.msnw)