Need help identifying these

[enchancea]

I bought about 40 or so stones yesterday and need help identifying some of them.
They are located here:
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/enchanceaa/album?.dir=/crytals+gems+and+stones
The ones that need identified at the ones that are numbered and dont have names.

[Rockprincess]

I bought about 40 or so stones yesterday and need help identifying some of them.
They are located here:
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/enchanceaa/album?.dir=/crytals+gems+and+stones
The ones that need identified at the ones that are numbered and dont have names.

So you mean...all but 11 of them?! :lol:

I will start...it may be in installments, but maybe not.

1 - agates. One is red agate, one is blue lace agate, and the third is too dark to identify from the photo, but I'm assuming it's got similar qualities to the other two, as you've put it with them

000_0059 - It looks like calcite and glauconitic clays, but the picture is really fuzzy!

10, 11 - blue agate

12 - awfully hard to see properly - is it metallic grey, or is it translucent black? The first would be hematite, the second smoky quartz

13 - probably blue agate, but might be sodalite - also hard to see properly

14 - is it glassy, or is it opaque? The first would be fibre-optic quartz, the second blue agate...

15 - looks like obsidian

16 - rose quartz

I'll do some more tomorrow - I have to go now!

[enchancea]

Thank you for your help so far. The ones that you couldnt see that well I took more pics of. Hopefully these one are alot better.
"12 - awfully hard to see properly - is it metallic grey, or is it translucent black? The first would be hematite, the second smoky quartz"
Its neither. Its its a dark olive green shiny color with black in it and very small white crystal looking substance in it.
"14 - is it glassy, or is it opaque? The first would be fibre-optic quartz, the second blue agate..."
Its not opaque Im not sure if I would consider it glassy. Its medium blue, light blue and white.

[Convallaria]

A great site for stones is abaxion.com they even give you some of the properties of them. plus you can do a little on-line shopping :D

[NightMare]

http://www.bestcrystals.com/index.html

This is a great site. I was looking for the name of my Kyanite and found it in no time on here.

[SylverStar]

The one with the milky opate stuff in the rock looks like opal. One of them looks like Jasper. All the larger clear crystals lok like quartz. I would go with obisidian for the black stone. Some them are hard to make out though.

[enchancea]

Thanks to everyones help so far. I got most of the names now. I retook pictures of the ones that arent known yet. These pictures look alot better and are alot clearer. They are numbers 1-16, 19, 37,38, 40 and 41

[Sylvan]

If #11 is silvery and heavier than it looks, it might be hematite.
#3 looks alot like labradorite. Very pretty stuff. :)
#7 looks dyed. Could be a dyed agate...

[enchancea]

I thought the same thing about #3 too but it has those lines in it like Tiger Eye. So im pretty confused about that. I didnt buy that one. The lady who used to live upstairs had a hippy friend and she knocked on my door one day and gave that to me.

[Flar's Freyja]

When in doubt, it's an agate ;)

[SylverStar]

:lol: freyja

[MoonRaven]

Just my opinions here, and comparing your photos with my own collection...

#10 looks like Aquamarine
#11 looks like Sodalite

Without being able to look at them and turn them over in my hands, that's my guess. The rest I'm not sure, but a lot of them look like Jaspers. You might want to look up specimens of the two I mentioned and see if you find anything similar.

Some of the photos are too dark to tell the true colour of the stone. (12, 13)

[enchancea]

12 is solid black and 13 is dark brown with black dots

[Demeter]

#2 is an agate.

#5 looks like red/yellow jasper mixed.

#6 is either rhodonite or rhodochrosite.

#7 is an agate that has been dyed. That color is not exactly one found in nature.

#10 could be amazonite with white matrix.

If #12 is opaque black, it's onyx. If it's translucent, it's probably obsidian.

#13 looks like obsidian.

#14 is another jasper.

#37, the chunk with the tiny sparkling crystals all over the surface, is a piece of an agate geode with drusy quartz crystals. The flip side of the piece is a boring greyish rock, am I correct? That would be the outside of the geode. Inside the geode you had layers of agate forming, with the tiny quartz crystals (that deposition pattern is called drusy) forming last.

#38 could have been either citrine or orange calcite in a matrix. The shot is not clear enough to see if there are distinct crystals in it. If the crystals are rhomboid shaped, it's a calcite.

The one you've got labeled "bloodstone" looks to me more like a unakite. Bloodstone is a very dark green, even background with dark red specks. Unakite has a lighter green, mottled background with larger pink bits. What you show there looks to be light enough, and with large enough pink areas, to be unakite.

The one you have labeled "red agate" looks more like a jasper (jaspers are opaque, agates are translucent).

[enchancea]

#37, the chunk with the tiny sparkling crystals all over the surface, is a piece of an agate geode with drusy quartz crystals. The flip side of the piece is a boring greyish rock, am I correct? That would be the outside of the geode. Inside the geode you had layers of agate forming, with the tiny quartz crystals (that deposition pattern is called drusy) forming last.

Yes you are correct. When I got it the lady said it was part of the zeolite family but thats all she knew.
Thank you for your help