It's impossible to tell from the pics what it is, You need to do optical tests. But I'm pretty sure it ain't an emerald. Not saying it can't be beryl but it's not emerald...(emeralds are green) On my monitor there is nothing green on your pictures
It's impossible to tell from the pics what it is, You need to do optical tests. But I'm pretty sure it ain't an emerald. Not saying it can't be beryl but it's not emerald...(emeralds are green) On my monitor there is nothing green on your pictures
Stone ıs really bıg I don't thınk I am able to take ın USA.
Is there any place ın Turkey (Izmır) I can take ıt for optıcal test.
the picture is small and I can't enlarge it so I'm not completely sure of what I'm seeing, but it seems there are neat cleavages on the second picture which would mean that the stone can't be beryl nor quartz
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Perhaps you should try contacting the geology department at one of the universities in Izmır and ask if someone could help you identify your unknown mineral. I bet they would.
Hi to everybody! Ok there are several possibilities about this specimen: quartz, emerald, tourmaline... a greenish reflect makes me too exclude the variety emerald (not the mineral beryl). Then it could also be a diaspore, sometimes it appear this dark and almost smoky colour and this cleavage, even with the greenish reflect you quoted now. Greetings from Italy by Riccardo.
While it isn't exactly possible to make a 100% certain identification of a specimen just from a photo, I would bet 100 bucks that it's quartz without hesitation.
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