Post subject: Can anyone identify these stones please
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 3:19 pm
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We have registered our claim for emeralds in southern africa and currently working on bringing them to market. However through our other business interests in africa we regularly have villagers offer us various stones hoping we can tell them what they are and hopefully do business with them. Here are two recent examples. Thanks
They look like aquamarine and hessonite respectively. It's not possible to get a 100% identification on them from a photo but these are fairly good guesses. A lot of hessonite like those in particular seems to have been coming out of Africa recently--there was a lot in Tucson this year.
Post subject: Re: Can anyone identify these stones please
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 6:54 pm
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I certainly concur with the aquamarine. The color and crystal shape are dead giveaways. The second sure looks like garnet, too, though I can't identify which type from the photo.
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