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 Post subject: An odd Franklin Stone
PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 5:26 pm 
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We went to Franklin N.J over the July 4th week, and I found a stone that had green crystals in it. It fluoresced green and orange, so i was happy. (The orange was calcite, of course.)
I saw that Willimite (my first guess) isn't green, so then I wanted to figure out what it was.
When I went to look at the stone at home, though, it didn't have any green crystals.
I checked it with a UV light - it was the right one. Was I imagining things? (It was hot enough at the dump, it could have happened!!)
I put it out on the deck and came back a couple days later --- and it had green crystals.
Coming inside to use the Raman on it... it didn't.

Turns out... it IS Willimite --- just colorless - - but there is enough UV in sunlight apparently to turn it green.

Weird.


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 Post subject: Re: An odd Franklin Stone
PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:57 pm 
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Wow, awesome.


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 Post subject: Re: An odd Franklin Stone
PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 3:09 am 
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We'll get some photos in here in a bit. Quite an unusual sample for sure!
Franklin was amazing, downright skarnarific, but I was close to heat stroke. Too many hot rocks to walk over.

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 Post subject: Re: An odd Franklin Stone
PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 1:46 pm 
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Wow...great sleuthing job! I had no idea that could happen, and would have thought I was going nuts after "seeing" green one day, then nada on the next.

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