I'm not sure what these are - the woman I bought them from called them 'strawberry quartz', but I've always thought that strawberry quartz was a solid pink, manmade simulated quartz type of material...??? I saw some at another booth that looked a lot like this and it was marked as something like 'lepidocr...something'. Anybody familiar with it?
Blue pietersite cabs:
Top row - two 16mm triangles
Middle row - ovals - 15mm x 20mm, 17mm x 21mm, 15mm x 20mm
Bottom row - 10mm x 17mm oval
Top row - two 16mm triangles
Middle row - ovals - 15mm x 20mm, 17mm x 21mm, 15mm x 20mm
Bottom row - 10mm x 17mm oval
Pink tourmaline cabs:
Upper left - 11mm x 19mm
Upper right - 9mm x 13mm
Lower left - 11mm
Lower right - 11mm x 19mm
Upper left - 11mm x 19mm
Upper right - 9mm x 13mm
Lower left - 11mm
Lower right - 11mm x 19mm
This was my biggest indulgence - an enormous pink tourmaline cab that is so clear and vibrant... I may be tempted to keep this for myself, we'll see. :-)
15mm x 21mm
15mm x 21mm
Really high quality kyanite - this was a splurge...
Upper left - 10mm x 16mm
Right - 11mm x 13mm
Lower left - 10mm x 14mm
Upper left - 10mm x 16mm
Right - 11mm x 13mm
Lower left - 10mm x 14mm
Jackpot!!! I've been looking for apatite cabs for a while now - finally found some... 8mm x 10mm - 9mm x 11mm
3 comments:
it's raining tourmalines... Lovely!!!
Hi Tamara!
Wow, you sure picked some awesome stones at the show.
The 'strawberry quartz' picture that you have is actually "lepidocrocite" - See the picture of the 2nd stone from the top on this page here:
http://tinyurl.com/Lepidocrocite
If you google the word Lepidocrocite you will find various sites that talk about this stone :)
Cheers,
Nat
stunning stones!
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