Hi guys!! My aunt has these strings, she bought them in Tucson a couple of years ago. They have a ticket saying "Burn Jade" but the name brings me to a dead end. I have tried looking for burned jade or burnt jade but nothing... Any help is appreciated, I love the energy of the stones and I want to find more about them. Thanks for reading me!!
These beads have been crackle quenched, a process where the beads are heated and dropped in water. Perhaps this is why they're 'burnt'. These cracks allow dye to enter the stone for a nice contrasty look. This is also done on transparent stones with the intention of allowing deeper dye penetration. I would guess these are milky quartz, and the jade name is just thrown in the mix to make them sound more exciting.
These beads have been crackle quenched, a process where the beads are heated and dropped in water. Perhaps this is why they're 'burnt'. These cracks allow dye to enter the stone for a nice contrasty look. This is also done on transparent stones with the intention of allowing deeper dye penetration. I would guess these are milky quartz, and the jade name is just thrown in the mix to make them sound more exciting.
I tought it was an agate by looking at the color, but the milky quartz sounds interesting
Some of them could be chalcedony or very subtly banded grey agate (where the banding is mostly seen in different levels of translucency and can be difficult to see on the wrong orientation), but most of them have a very quartz-looking texture.
Some of them could be chalcedony or very subtly banded grey agate (where the banding is mostly seen in different levels of translucency and can be difficult to see on the wrong orientation), but most of them have a very quartz-looking texture.
fortification agates are banded. But there are a lot of agates (like Montana Moss agate, Sweetwater agate, Graveyard Plume, etc.) that aren't. Graveyard plume (Western Idaho): Sweetwater agate: (Sweetwater, Wyoming) Montana Moss agate (Eastern Montana)
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It depends on who you're talking to. Rockhounds tend to call most any kind of translucent chalcedony "agate". But according to one source, minerals.net,
"Dendritic Agate - Translucent Chalcedony with tree-like or fern-like inclusions. Dendritic Agate is technically not a true Agate, as it lacks the banding patterns exhibited in Agates."
Two out of three of those do show banding. In the case of plumey agates it can be obscured, or in the case of montana agates it is just very fine and subtle but always present. The sweetwater may or may not, I don't remember.
Cryptocrystalline quartz nomenclatire is messy and every simple definition seems to invite exceptions. These are traditional trade terms, after all, rather than hard scientific designations. Even banding vs no banding is a continuum. Some locales like the limb cast agates from Texas Springs seem to show a continuum, with some showing obvious banding, some showing very faint subtle banding and some apparently showing none at all.
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This is a circular argument . Folks will call what ever they want, whatever they want to call it.
When I was a student, I was taught agate is banded chalcedony.
Your point that some specimens of dendritic and plumbed "agate" are lightly banded would identify them as an agate within my prehistoric definition, n'est pas?.
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