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Identity HelpWhat are these? Jade/Emerald? andn Larimar/quartz/malachite?

5th Mar 2010 18:12 UTCMarc Kahn

HI,

Can you help identify these?

Thanks,

Marc

5th Mar 2010 18:23 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Your emerald looks like polished fluorite and the last has green with the blue and so is not Larimar. It is certainly not labradorite (check out the labradorite photos here). It is some kind of malachite (green), azurite (blue) in quartz or calcite (white, hardness will sort them out)

5th Mar 2010 18:29 UTCAnonymous User

The green one looks more like Mexican "onyx" (banded calcite) to me.

5th Mar 2010 19:30 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Ken's comment caused me a second look. I thought it looked like fluorite as I thought it was gemmy but I may have been fooled by the reflections. So yes it might well be travertine if it is not transparent.

5th Mar 2010 20:12 UTCDonald Slater

It would be easier if the pictures were more in focus but the green look more like chrysoprase or green chalcedony. I think if it were fluorite the would be some signs of cleavage. It appears to have a conchoidal fracture pattern. The last one looks more like chrysocolla. Is it opaque? What is the hardness one each?

5th Mar 2010 20:28 UTCAriel S Wall

Mindat should charge $.99 per identification from its members. To non members. This money could be used to pay for the aspirin and Vodka nesecary to right the state of mind one is forced to recover from after viewing these out of focus pics of shoebox rocks.

Ariel

5th Mar 2010 20:48 UTCAlex Homenuke 🌟 Expert

The third one looks dyed.

8th Mar 2010 08:45 UTCAmanda Hawkins

The 3rd photo looks like chrysocolla to me

8th Mar 2010 09:58 UTCRock Currier Expert

You can use your paypal account to send your out of focus image fees to mindat.