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Dec 06, 2010, 08:31 AM
#1
Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
Found in wisconsin in glaical till, been a rock hound for years but never found blue stone before, any help? Thanks Mike
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Dec 06, 2010, 11:32 AM
#2
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
It looks strange but it's like if the stone had been painted. But it could be chalcanthite on lead or azurit on copper. However, it really looks like paint.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Dec 06, 2010, 12:52 PM
#3
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
 Originally Posted by Exnihilo
It looks strange but it's like if the stone had been painted. But it could be chalcanthite on lead or azurit on copper. However, it really looks like paint.
Thats what i thought(paint) but after washing in water i took a little paint thiner on a rag and wiped it but got no color. Thanks for the reply Mike
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Dec 06, 2010, 04:30 PM
#4
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
It looks sort of blueish from here, chrysocolla or turquoise?
whack off a small edge, might be useful to see a fresh surface. 
Geologists are gneiss, tuff, and a little wacke.
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Dec 17, 2010, 08:09 PM
#5
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
From the color of the background in your photos (I assume it was white) I believe the color balance is pretty close to actual, so the blue colors are fairly represented.
The colors certainly have the appearance that is common to copper oxides and copper carbonates. This is probably a specimen from the weathering zone on the top of a copper deposit and represents the secondary minerals from that zone that have been glacially transported.
Any chance this specimen was found in the glacial rubble south or south-southwest of Ladysmith?
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Dec 18, 2010, 10:51 AM
#6
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
no matter where you go,there you are!
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Mar 06, 2011, 08:06 PM
#7
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
I know it's a little late to reply to this, but.... Peacock Ore
The bad thing about having frizzy hair AND the ability to see dead people: Sometimes, that dead person is just a frizzy hair in your peripheral vision. Sometimes, that frizzy hair in your peripheral vision doesn't go away when you move it.
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Mar 07, 2011, 12:26 AM
#8
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
Looks Bornite or Covellite. Just a guess
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Mar 07, 2011, 12:29 AM
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 Tuberale
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
Can't see any fracture zones, but I'd guess poor grade lapis lazuli myself.
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Apr 15, 2011, 11:03 AM
#10
Re: Found this blue stone, ? what is it.
Looks like chyrsicola, quite commonly mistaken for turquoise by the newbies to rock hunting...not an expert but....goat
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