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[solved] Orange rock ID needed
EDIT 9/12/2015: per a local rock shop, it's peach aventurine!
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Found these in a two pound batch of miscellaneous tumbled stones listed as "from Africa & Brazil". Given that I have so many, I'd like to be able to label these beyond "orange rocks". LOL Stones took a nice polish, very slick to the touch, have low transparency (a couple are barely translucent throughout, most have lightly translucent edges where the stone is thinnest), and to the naked eye, have no distinct banding, just slight changes in shading of color.
Let me know if bigger images are needed, these were downsized to fit better inline in the thread.
White background, filtered early afternoon sun. Closest to accurate color, ranging from pinkish peach to pumpkin.
Black background, filtered shade. Color bleached out in image a bit to show more detail of the variations in color within and between stones.
My first thought is orange/peach aventurine as I've found a few pics of that that seem closest to these, but honestly all colors of aventurine have so many variations in online images that I just don't know, and I'm not familiar enough in person with those to feel confident. There was also a batch of medium green stones included with exactly the same characteristics, that I think probably are green aventurine. I'm not seeing enough flash to think sunstone, though it's close to the same shade as the dark orange flecks present in my small sunstone wands.
Edited to add: OK, in direct full sun, the probable green aventurine does show the mica-flecked shimmer pretty clearly, enough so that I was able to move a couple questionable stones into or out of that pile. On these orange ones, there's a similar shimmer, but it's not as pronounced as on the green, and definitely not as pronounced as sunstone. Still undecided and looking for opinions.
Also, I'm now completely sun-blind.
EDIT 9/12/2015: per a local rock shop, it's peach aventurine!
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Found these in a two pound batch of miscellaneous tumbled stones listed as "from Africa & Brazil". Given that I have so many, I'd like to be able to label these beyond "orange rocks". LOL Stones took a nice polish, very slick to the touch, have low transparency (a couple are barely translucent throughout, most have lightly translucent edges where the stone is thinnest), and to the naked eye, have no distinct banding, just slight changes in shading of color.
Let me know if bigger images are needed, these were downsized to fit better inline in the thread.
White background, filtered early afternoon sun. Closest to accurate color, ranging from pinkish peach to pumpkin.
Black background, filtered shade. Color bleached out in image a bit to show more detail of the variations in color within and between stones.
My first thought is orange/peach aventurine as I've found a few pics of that that seem closest to these, but honestly all colors of aventurine have so many variations in online images that I just don't know, and I'm not familiar enough in person with those to feel confident. There was also a batch of medium green stones included with exactly the same characteristics, that I think probably are green aventurine. I'm not seeing enough flash to think sunstone, though it's close to the same shade as the dark orange flecks present in my small sunstone wands.
Edited to add: OK, in direct full sun, the probable green aventurine does show the mica-flecked shimmer pretty clearly, enough so that I was able to move a couple questionable stones into or out of that pile. On these orange ones, there's a similar shimmer, but it's not as pronounced as on the green, and definitely not as pronounced as sunstone. Still undecided and looking for opinions.
Also, I'm now completely sun-blind.