Comment with your favorite stone, and I'll show you a piece of rough.

Let's see how much a variety of rough I have...

15 points · 18 comments · view on lemmy.world

18 Comments

klemptor@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Opal, garnet, jade, tiger's eye, malachite

Crylos@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Left to right:

  • opal - both mexican fire and the cabachon type
  • garnet - pyrope
  • tiger's eye

I don't have jade or any malachite.

klemptor@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y

Very interesting how these look so different raw vs polished!

floatslikeaboat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Larimar

Crylos@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Don't have any of that and had no clue it existed! Now it's on my list of things to get my hands on!

Thanks!

floatslikeaboat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

It’s beautiful. It looks like the surface of a pool.

Aviandelight@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Peridot and moonstone.

Crylos@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Here is the peridot. I cut the last of my moonstone for a commission and haven't gotten more yet.

Aviandelight@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 3y

I love that you can still see light through it even when it's rough.

girl@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

hematite quartz!

Crylos@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Ahh, you got me... don't have any of that at the moment.

verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I sent it this comment days ago, looks like it boinced. FLUORITE! I have a piece of faceted fluorite I love

Crylos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I had to go look for it, but I received this when I was a child and have kept it for the memories.

verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Thank you! That's a beauty.

Xorbius@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Let's see some zircon!

Crylos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Here ya go a blue zircon.. next to a stone I'm getting ready to cut.

Xorbius@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Really nice! Is it naturally blue zircon you've got there or was it heat-treated?

Crylos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

This one was natural, purchased specifically for a commission.