help I.Ding a LOT of photos please

[DarkDude]

help I.D'ing a LOT of photos please

a lot of stones i need help I.D'ing i got a book but cant find them in there :\ thanks for your time and i apologise again. any help wpuld be great

and i apologise for the amount i need I.D'ing even a few would be a great help

 

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[DarkDude]

a close up of these unusual stones (wet)

 

[loco oro]

mostly ,tumbled shale, some tumbled quartz, the only one i like is next to last, a granite with quartz intrusion carrying a greenish min (malachite ) maybe.the really blue with aqua color looks a lil suspect to me

 

[TeAra]

The blue ones look almost like a glass byproduct.
What area are you located?

 

[DarkDude]

hi, im based in blackpool, in the north west of england, lancashire, england. Hopefully gonna make some jewelry out of some of it. yeah the weird blue stuff is manmade i think. no idea what it is there was a huge storm, and that stuff appeared all over the beach. no one seems to know what it is. it has never been seen before that storm. its like torn grown crystals, and some form of adhesive on the other side.

someone suggested the yellow/red stones is either triassic sherwood sandstone or jasper.

we tend to get a lot of jasper wash up on the beach but also granite and slate and mudstone

 

[TeAra]

The glass looking stuff could have been washed out from a company on the coast and then brought back to shore. Hard to tell. I did find a link about the geology of the area that may help you in knowing what is around your area. I do see what looks like alot of sandstone, mudstone, granite, and quartz. I use these in making jewelry, cabs and such, some does need to be stabilized, I was told when it does just use super glue and heat it (I used it on mica and it worked out well) . But here is the link to that site. Wished I could have been more help. Natural England - Lancashire (including Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool).
Also here is another site that shows what could possibly be in the area. http://www.mindat.org/loc-18319.html

 

[DarkDude]

how would ou stabilize ssandstone? is the red and yellow sandstone?

it took a bit of sawing with a pair of scissors but i sawed into it so its sandstone. i will have to see how i can polish it without it crumbling, i wonder if usinga dremel would work

 

[TeAra]

It looks like the stuff I find around here by the river. I was told it was shale. You would coat the stone that needs it in super glue then heat it so the stone can absorb the glue. I use my oven only with a fan in the window blowing out to get rid of the fumes. I heat the oven then shut it off and lay the stone in after the glue is on it and let it sit till the stone is dry. I sometimes leave them in till the oven is cool depending on which stone I am using. This is to be done with caution.

 

[DarkDude]

also the bit whitey yelow stones when i cracked them open stank of sulfer like burnt matches. any idea why?

 

[loco oro]

also the bit whitey yelow stones when i cracked them open stank of sulfer like burnt matches. any idea why?

they would be sulphides,they would be soft, and take a fair amount of delicate polishing to get any desirable finish, i have sphalerite, buckets of honey brown variaty , beautiful stuff,also a sulphide ,and soft ,just a bit harder than calcite,4,4.5 on mohs , if you have any sugestions how to work it , that would be great, its wavey,stratified ,white cal,honey,or amber,sphalerite, with grayish inclusions, all from a galeana deposit.

 

[TeAra]

I guess you asked me. I run into alot of stones that are very soft and I do work with them using my dremel on slow speed. It does take some time but I do not have to worry about messing it up to bad. I do use the sink faucet as my drip while doing this. After I use a sand paper of 1200 and polish by hand. I am no expert and I am learning as I go but I do use the same method after I find out how well it works. We have that mineral around here so I will search for it and do some work on it to let you see how it turns out.

 

[loco oro]

thakyou ,i ve had thses samples for fve yrs or so, i am no lap, but think i would love to get started,always up for somthing new, and crazy, i will post some pics on my page in a few if you want check out what i got, and if you like what you see i could gladly send some to you, considering i have aprox, 40 lbs of the stuff , and can go get a lot more. its a great pocket, but this is the only material from so far.note,this stuff is very brittle.

 

[TeAra]

You're very welcome. I practice daily with my dremel since that is all I have other than a tile cutter but it does the job. I look forward to seeing pics. I only hope to find a pocket like the one you did but I will be happy with a few specimens.

 

[JLeonhardy]

Have you determined the blue/aqua stuff isn't fluorite?

 

[DarkDude]

it was extremely brittle whatever it was :\

 

[Brian T. Booth]

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The bright blue / aqua photo and the next to last photo interest me the most. The bright blue / aqua I'm not sure on, but after examining the photo it looks man made. I just don't think this item is nature made. I could be wrong but it's very obscure. If you could more photos of the blue/aqua item would be great. The next to last photo I think is a serpentine group mineral. Great finds.


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[DarkDude]

it smelt weird and melted the bag so i got rid of it im afraid :\

 

[JLeonhardy]

Well, Fluorite wouldn't melt the back, or smell funny for that matter. Now my curiosity is up.....

 

[DarkDude]

i think it was the black stuff on the back of it that melted the bag it was sticky

 

[loco oro]

what ,melt the bag?you said it recently washed up,sounds like somebody dumped something they shouldnt have, if its a reactive substance,and still reactive after being submerged in sea water ,def NOT GOOD!