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 Post subject: Help needed in identifying this green stone
PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 8:38 am 
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Hi

I want your help in identifying this stone as far as you can go from the picture. It is very green, fairly heavy relative to its size. There are multiple clay & empty bubble inclusions (with very fine lines between them) inside the stone that are visible to the naked eye. It broke easily using only my hands into three pieces in clear lines resulting very smooth, irregular, shiny surfaces with sharp edges. After that each of the three pieces became so hard /strong/ to break further even using hand tools. I have attached pictures of it.
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 Post subject: Re: Help needed in identifying this green stone
PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 11:29 am 
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Teman's pics did not come through. Luckily he sent me the pics via email.
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 Post subject: Re: Help needed in identifying this green stone
PostPosted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 1:20 pm 
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Good observations and info. What you have here is slag glass left over from some human activity. Not really valuable but very pretty stuff.

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Thanks for that expert view


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