Mica w/Garnets

[TeAra]

Finally got around to cutting a piece and making a rough pendant out of it.

 

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[Jhaddad8]

The white stuff looks like quartz to me. I saw mica on the left side of the second picture you put up. The other stuff does look like garnet, hard to tell from the picture. Mica is too soft to work with. Do you know roughly what state this is from? I have a piece of qz vein w/ mica from Rumney in New Hampshire that looks a lot like this. It also looks a bit like my parents granite counter tops.

 

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[TeAra]

Not here where I am located. But I have learned just because it says we do not have it does not mean we might not have it. I look everywhere I can get into. Will keep an eye out.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

sned me pics if you find anything lol

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

send me pics if you find anything lol

 

[TeAra]

The white stuff looks like quartz to me. I saw mica on the left side of the second picture you put up. The other stuff does look like garnet, hard to tell from the picture. Mica is too soft to work with. Do you know roughly what state this is from? I have a piece of qz vein w/ mica from Rumney in New Hampshire that looks a lot like this. It also looks a bit like my parents granite counter tops.

I am assuming TN or VA he did not tell me much when he gave them to me.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

i hope you find some more shiny stuff

 

[TeAra]

I have found some on my land but more mica than quartz and smaller so I am unable to work with them because they just fall apart but they add some shine to the rest of my collection.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

id like to find tigers eye

 

[TeAra]

My daughter was sent 2 kinds of tiger eye from a fellow rockhound I know.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

i know theres tiger eye and cats eye cat eye is usually blackish grean color but it will very

 

[TeAra]

She has the goldish/brown tigers eye won't let me touch it tho with my saw lol

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

if i get you a tiger eye can you make me a wolf pendent ahahah?

 

[TeAra]

Ummm. I could try. I am going to a huge gem show the end of this month. I would hate to ruin a piece someone else sent me so I will look for some there as well just in case.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

find some blacklight rocks

 

[TeAra]

I am sure they will have some. I have a few now that was sent to me.

 

[NJnuggetpirate]

there always fun

 

[urbantreasure]

Yes I do not think it remotely resembles any natural mica I have seen in NC or GA. Must have really altered it to get it to look like that. Perhaps it was a host rock of some sort with mica and garnet in/on it?

 

[urbantreasure]

yeah. that pic says quartz matrix with mica and garnet.

 

[TeAra]

I got it from someone who runs a rock shop. They said they went with a friend to a mine and picked some up but did nt tel me where. It was ve y xlean when I got it and all I did was cut it up but for finish I put a glaze on it to stabilize it.