Post subject: Help To Identify Chatoyant Mineral Please ?
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 11:07 pm
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I have many years lapidary/semi-precious mineral experience.. Have worked almost every imaginable semi-precious , and most all the chatoyant minerals as well.. At least the ones that could be cabbed.. I never did any faceting..
But this chatoyant Chinese snuff bottle has me perplexed.
I took a macro image, and looks natural structure to me, but I lack expertise in gem grade minerals.. I have some possibilities in mind, but would sure appreciate comments .
Taake a close look across the grain, 90 degrees from the chatoyance. Cats eye glass is fairly common, and will show a distonctive pattern of interlocking hexagons. That would be my first guess.
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