Post by rockfarmer on Jan 31, 2013 11:27:33 GMT -5
Hello from Arkansas! I am brand new to the forum, and I am not a Rockhound.
However, when my father passed away a few years ago, he left me with hundreds of cut gemstones. Some of the stones are uncut and I am still trying to ID them. I did sit down with a Gemologist at a local fancy jewelry store and we spent about an hour and a half looking through a back pack full of stones. It was just some of my "dragons hoard". He was like a kid in a candy store. He was able to ID several of them and some of them he had no clue. He looked at me and said, "You need a Rockhound." So they have sat in a dark closet until the other day when we were working around the house.
So here I am. I still have hundreds of stones sitting in 5 boxes. I figured I would post one of the most interesting ones first. This stone was in one of the boxes wrapped in a paper towel marked "Africa". It seems crystalline. That is all I know about it. I am a biologist that works in a lab, so I have access to several reagents if I need to test it in any way. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
However, when my father passed away a few years ago, he left me with hundreds of cut gemstones. Some of the stones are uncut and I am still trying to ID them. I did sit down with a Gemologist at a local fancy jewelry store and we spent about an hour and a half looking through a back pack full of stones. It was just some of my "dragons hoard". He was like a kid in a candy store. He was able to ID several of them and some of them he had no clue. He looked at me and said, "You need a Rockhound." So they have sat in a dark closet until the other day when we were working around the house.
So here I am. I still have hundreds of stones sitting in 5 boxes. I figured I would post one of the most interesting ones first. This stone was in one of the boxes wrapped in a paper towel marked "Africa". It seems crystalline. That is all I know about it. I am a biologist that works in a lab, so I have access to several reagents if I need to test it in any way. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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