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Fakes & FraudsRed Malachite???

30th Jan 2015 21:21 UTCAnna

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Hi all! I am not super skilled in distinguishing one stone from the next, but I seen that people are selling a type of tumbled stone as "red malachite." I know Malachite to only be green and am well familiar with it's beauty, variance, and price. However in all the variance I have never seen "red." Please advise and/or enlighten as to what this stone may actually be and/or if it is dyed, etc.



Thank you,


Anna

30th Jan 2015 21:31 UTCRalph S Bottrill 🌟 Manager

Looks like a ferruginous laminated quartzite, nothing like malachite.

30th Jan 2015 23:12 UTCColin Robinson

Well, we've had green amethyst so it's hardly surprising is it?

31st Jan 2015 00:41 UTCReiner Mielke Expert

Could also be pink travertine.

31st Jan 2015 01:30 UTCBill Cordua 🌟 Manager

Negative on the malachite. Checking the hardness and with a little HCl will distinguish travertine form quartz-rich rocks. But methinks the Sage Goddess (as in sagebrush?) is not being mineralogically straight with her customers.

31st Jan 2015 02:25 UTCHarold (Hal) Prior Expert

Red Malachite is a trade name they have give to a banded jasper because it is banded like malachite. "Known to most people as red malachite, this gemstone is actually a banded jasper. Like all jasper, it's part of the chalcedony "family." The "marriage" of jasper's lovely colors with malachite's fine banding makes red malachite unusually beautiful".

31st Jan 2015 04:05 UTCWayne Corwin

It also makes it a highly stupid and decieving name :-S


IMHO ;-)

31st Jan 2015 05:01 UTCHarold (Hal) Prior Expert

I agree - Also increases the sale price.

3rd Feb 2015 19:37 UTCOwen Melfyn Lewis

Harold (Hal) Prior Wrote:

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> I agree - Also increases the sale price.


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