It is a tough one. I thought while cooking dinner. BP is into the unusual Maybe Kyanite for #3 I remember a blue Green kyanite rolling into my lab. What about flourite for one of them?
I can drag my computer screen across my tile hallway and check for scratch test. Some how, I think my husband may not be pleased.
Joined: Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:19 am Posts: 273 Location: Michigan & Arizona
Well, it looks like a few more clues are in order. I'm definitely not giving any RI's though - that's simply giving it away! I'm post more later today.
There are some subtle hints in each of the existing clues, so look for those. You are certainly flirting with a few of answers here, so give me an answer list and I will "grade" it. I will tell you that kornerupine is correct, see that one was too easy!
Joined: Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:19 am Posts: 273 Location: Michigan & Arizona
Alright, here is some additional info:
Stone 1: I am not a conformist – in school I stood from the rest of my class for my unusual symmetry.
Stone 6: I am proud to say that no. 4 and I are the only biaxial gems on the list.
Stone 4: You have my identity, so you know there must be another of equal hardness, look for an odd numbered stone this time.
I gave in that Barbra was correct with Kornerupine, that doesn't mean that she was incorrect elsewhere. Or that some other good ideas haven't been tossed around. Nikolaus had done some very nice reasoning.
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Well since "my reasoning" was mentioned, I assume hat at least my tip for the locaality , The famous Laurion mines of Greece, was right.
This still doesn´t help a lot, as long as we don´t know if Flourite was the right mineral . A little check on the mineral list of Laurion yields many more possibilities for "Obscure faceted stones" in the blue to bluegreen range - but I think many of them are just collected as micromounts and wouldn´t be big enough for a faceted stone.
So just for to check if I was right with my tip: I added a few others that I assume could fit into the list:
Joined: Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:19 am Posts: 273 Location: Michigan & Arizona
Jung Kee, you have three of the stones correct. Stone 2 is faceted Peruvian opal as Barbra guessed, we know that 4 is Kornerupine and you also have stone 5 which is Chrysoprase.
The "five cents worth" was a reference to Nickel as the coloring agent for Chrysoprase. Stone 2 also was refering to this one with the similar chemical makeup comment.
Nikolaus has the locality, but not the stone, correct for no. 6. The silver mines at Laurion financed many an Athenian warship in antiquity.
That leaves us with nos. 1, 3 and 6 to be identified. The clue for number 1 can be expanded that the "American cousins" are from a deposit in the Eastern US. The shared chemical building block comment actually refers to 1, 3 and 6. Think of it as the pentultimate one, in a way.
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