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 Post subject: Please help identify this rocks
PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 9:40 am 
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I would like to have your opinion if this rocks have something to do with
minerals. Thank you in advance!


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 Post subject: Re: Please help identify this rocks
PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 10:53 am 
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Those are extremely valuable sapphires


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 2:31 pm 
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^^disagree, clearly river worn diamonds.

But seriously, crack them open, you maybe lucky and find a fossil inside!


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:23 pm 
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Yeah, goofs aside these are just river pebbles. Surface weathering can yield really deceptive colors and patterns, but they look a bit quartzite ish. That said, sometimes these stones can yield interesting cabochons. I've cut a few I collected from drain gravel at college which turned out neat.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:54 am 
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So is dificult to say what is it exactly.
Thank you for your time!


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Yeah, I took some to my mineralogy professor when I was a freshman and that was what he told me. When I cut them open most lookes veey different inside.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:15 pm 
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I will keep them in mt collection!


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Absolutely, if you like them keep them. If you get a saw in the future slicing them through the middle is a great experience too.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:11 pm 
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At the moment I can't cut them maybe later on.
Thank you very much for your reply!


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