good color

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color for those gemologists out there.

[Goodyguy]

Me Likey

[2cmorau]

oh, i know that last one its "Turn-Me-Lean" so i can find some more
nice pics

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how come there is about 50 page views and over 600 picture views

[Goodyguy]

how come there is about 50 page views and over 600 picture views

Most likely due to clicking on the photos posted in the margin of the t-net home page rather than visiting the thread directly

[Hoser John]

Good ol'garnets sure are a great addition to gold. Coarsegold here in the Motherlode has some of the richest deposits of multi-colored garnets I've ever seen. Made quite a few jewelry pieces fulla gold and garnets---nice pix-and thanx mucho-John

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CHECK OUT THE QUALITY OF THIS TINY LITTLE FLECK OF GOLD.

[Astrobouncer]

Great pictures man. I think you have several spessartite garnets there (the orange ones). I also see some red almandine garnets, and picture 4 shows at least one well formed clear topaz (the square one). The pink stones could be morganite ( a variety of beryl), I would really try to get a hardness test done on one of those.

The black crystal's shape you photographed reminds me of psuedobrookite with it being tabular and elongated ( for example: http://www.mindat.org/photo-123063.html ) though it could be many other things as well, perhaps even simply schorl.