⭐ Gemstone & Mineral Show n Tell

[22shells]

Found this one today, think it might be azurite?

 

[MegsyB007]

I'd say you're right 22shells. Azurite is a deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. If you look closely, you can see some green in there too - a sure sign of copper. Azurite got it's name from 'azure' - a deep bright blue - this certainly is azure coloured!

 

[22shells]

I'm colourblind so I can't see the green, but I think I can see the bits that probably are green. Looks sort of grey to me, but I can see the blue quite easily.

 

[bumdags]

Afternoon all. Im normally a gold prospector but the wife has been asking about gems . So today we decided to try our luck on something different. I think we found some topaz and maybe a smokey. Not too sure.

What do you think?

 

[Dihusky]

Topaz has a couple of quick give-aways, on the lips it's cold and has a slightly soapy feel to it. Right and bottom look like quartz, the other smaller two have a quartz look to them but you never know.

 

[bumdags]

Thanks dihusky. The 2 smaller ones fell heavier than quartz than of similar size. Just going by feel

 

[bumdags]

Ok bought myself a set of digital scales and did a specific gravity test on the 2 smaller stones. The clear one ended up 2.67 and the smoky colour 2.71.
On the chart i found it says it beryl. Does that sound right?
Found near powelltown vic.

 

[Brisgazza]

By no means any sort of expert but the 2 on the left look like topaz , Gazza

 

[Wishfull]

Hows this. Not by me unfortunately.

552 carat yellow diamond found in Yellowknife Canada. largest ever found in North America
:gemstone:

 

[Dihusky]

Ok bought myself a set of digital scales and did a specific gravity test on the 2 smaller stones. The clear one ended up 2.67 and the smoky colour 2.71.
On the chart i found it says it beryl. Does that sound right?
Found near powelltown vic.

Don't know the area at all, Beryl, has a very different crystal structure to those stones, so highly unlikely, quartz sg is 2.65 so that would be my pick the fact that your SG is a bit higher could be normal variations due to impurities or variations from hard or soft water? They certainly have the look of quartz.

 

[MegsyB007]

Afternoon all. Im normally a gold prospector but the wife has been asking about gems . So today we decided to try our luck on something different. I think we found some topaz and maybe a smoky. Not too sure. https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...s/10889/1543732647_webp.net-resizeimage-2.jpg
What do you think?

That area is mostly known for quartz (clear, smokey, citrine), topaz and tourmaline.
Topaz is out with those SG readings (3.4-3.6) and tourmaline (3.02-3.26).
I'd say you could possibly have the other three there.
The one with the yellow tint could be citrine (2.6-2.7), the big one's a smokey, and the other ones clear quartz (or possibly another citrine. It can be quite pale yellow sometimes). Search citrine in Google images and you'll see it comes in a wide variety of colours.

Have you checked out the thread Goldierocks posted about identifying gems and minerals?
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=24758
It might help you with some more tests to positively identify them.

Cheers,
Megsy

 

[Heatho]

Ok bought myself a set of digital scales and did a specific gravity test on the 2 smaller stones. The clear one ended up 2.67 and the smoky colour 2.71.
On the chart i found it says it beryl. Does that sound right?
Found near powelltown vic.

Those SG's are almost certainly quartz. They look like quartz to me too.

 

[bumdags]

Thanks guys for your input much appreciated. Whatever they are it made the wife happy and thats half the battle

 

[Splinter]

Finally got some stones worth posting. Took me quite a few visits, but I finally hit a good patch in the creek at Bb Blue.

 

[Rockhunter62]

Some nice stones there Splinter. :gemstone:

Cheers

Doug

 

[Dave79]

Persistence pays off. Looks like a good honey hole you've found :Y:

 

[grumpygold]

Found this one today, think it might be azurite?
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3817/1543655364_pc011056.jpg

we have plenty of that same ore here around the burra monster mine 110% azurite :Y:

 

[Wishfull]

Persistence pays off. Looks like a good honey hole you've found :Y:

Please put some shades on those blinkers

 

[Splinter]

Thanks Rh62, D79 and also everyone else for the likes. Wishing you all good luck in your prospecting ventures. Cheers all and happy hunting ickshovel:

 

[Firepanther]

Recent haul over the weekend. Was great to get out in North east Tas. Biggest sapphire was 2.5ct and topaz was over 5ct.