⭐ Gemstone & Mineral Show n Tell

[user 4485]

Found this piece of jewellery today, can anyone help identify what the stone is? View attachment 13631View attachment 13632

Most likely a Tangarine Quartz variety. Can be from an orange/yellow through to rust orange colour & widely used for a healing stone (which the pendant looks similar too).

 

[manficat]

Found a large tube of olivine at Shadwell. Some people who have gone there for years have only found four small ones, so I guess this makes up for the lack of facetable olivine

 

[Daltonstu]

Size looks good but they need a backlight to show their colour. Perhaps you could try photographing them sitting on a small torch.

Yes will do

 

[Bidgee]

Found these gemstones while panning in a creek near Yass NSW. I'm new to this so dont really know what they are are but I'm suspecting garnet. They are relatively dense and collect in the bottom of the pan. Unsure what the crystal with the yellow hue is the first pic. Seems more dense than quartz.

 

[Moneybox]

This is a diamond, note the crystalline shape.



I have these in my greasy little palm but are they diamonds?

No, unfortunately they are Octa hedral magnetite so interesting enough but not quite as valuable

 

[RichardWest]

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This is a diamond, note the crystalline shape.

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I have these in my greasy little palm but are they diamonds?

No, unfortunately they are Octa hedral magnetite so interesting enough but not quite as valuable

Just put them in the high temp pressure oven for a bit longer Phil.

 

[7an7]

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This is a diamond, note the crystalline shape.

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I have these in my greasy little palm but are they diamonds?

No, unfortunately they are Octa hedral magnetite so interesting enough but not quite as valuable

The magnetites I find them not far from me in Marble Bar I have some still in situ around here they call them devils diamond dice.

 

[Lumi]

A piece of citrine (?) I picked up from a gravel bank while fossicking at Reedy.

 

[manficat]

My first proper sapphires. All very small though. From Victoria. Also got a possibly cuttable zircon