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Good website for identifying?
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:36 pm
by blue_moon
I was really excited when I got my package of tumbled stones. I picked the bigger ones so I could use them for healing and energizing.
As I opened it I was a bit disappointed. .. main reason because I hardly know a stone (and I thought I did know so many! )
Anyone know a good website?
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:43 pm
by evil ed
Any chance you could post pictures? I'll be glad to help if I can.
E. E.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 1:09 pm
by blue_moon
Thanks Ed!
I'll post some when I get my kids in bed.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:22 pm
by blue_moon
Ok. I sorted them and took some pictures.
This is red jasper - nice deep rich colour
Amethyst - no doubt
Tree Agate - I've never seen these. Found them by chance before I wrote this thread. (I love clear stones, but I like stones having solids, clear parts and sparkles even more)
These are light green and they seem to sparkle a bit.
Citrine?
A beautiful vivid gray
The left one is grayish like the ones above and the right one pinkish... idea?
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:51 pm
by blue_moon
A light brown
A nice pink colour - and a carnelian?
These are black - onyx? Obsidian? How can I tell the difference?
The one upper one looks like a rosequarz - and the bottom two are clear
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:59 am
by blue_moon
The pink and black might be agate stones. I checked the webshop where I baught them and it said pink and black agate in the list.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:12 am
by YanaKhan
The greenish ones I think may be nephrite. I've seen similar color nephrite as well as dark green.
Can't really help you with the other ones, but why don't you try google searching the pics? Google will come up with similar results and you may identify them. Just a suggestion, can't be sure if it'll work though.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:57 am
by evil ed
Greetings Blue-moon!
Please keep in mind this is an Identification without being able to see the stones "in person".
Light green- Either Indian moss agate or aventurine. The sparklies you mentioned leads me more to the latter.
Citrine?- lookes to have a fair amount of red tint in the photos. I'd lean more towards a light carnelian.
Gray- Looks like a jasper to me.
Pink- Pretty sure it's rose quartz.
Black- Obsidian.
The one in the picture with the brown and grey jasper- By the nature of the banding, I would say a piece of agatized petrified wood, but definitely an agate.
My best guess on the last six stones would be one very light rose quartz, four quartz, and one agate (the one with the white band on top).
Please keep in mind this is without actually examining them in person.
Hope this helps!
E.E.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:55 am
by blue_moon
Thank you for taking a look ed!
the stones look a lot like the photographs! But still they look different.
I'll keep searching.
I've never seen a rose quarz like that - I only know them "clear" a big shine through - these pink stones are solid - no light shines through.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:19 pm
by evil ed
I've seen the "shine through" type and the more opaque types too. There's a lot of pink agates and jaspers out there too.
Also, if it is the more opaque variety of rose quartz, check it for stars! a lot of that type will have stars (asterism) just like star sapphires will, but not as strong. Shine a small flashlight on one of the rounded ends to look for a star.
E.E.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:05 pm
by Silversong
The ones you tentatively identified as citrine look more like pale carnelians to me.
Post 1 Pic 7: Bottom center looks like it could be agate, or maybe tiger's eye, although that would be an unusual color.
Post 2 Pic 2: Far right is definitely a pink agate. Idk the other two.
Post 2 Pic 3: Could also be jet. I don't think they're obsidian; obsidians usually have less texture to them. (Look at the edges of the shine)
Post 2 Pic 4: Middle one could be an agate. (Lost of those, haha.) Far right looks like snow quartz. Far left could be milky quartz.
I could be wrong about most of these, of course XD Hope I'm helpful.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:10 am
by blue_moon
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:16 am
by blue_moon
Hey silversong thank you for you input!
P1/p7 is no tiger eye, agate is more likely.
The black stones - the shine you see is from my lamps.
I really have no idea how to tell the difference. To me these stomes just look black.
edit
Look at this stone
http://www.edelsteine.de/shop/popup_ima ... 86&imgID=0
Its a rainbow obsidian - and it looks alot like my brown tree looking like stone. What do you say?
Hm.. mine are partly see-through, and seem to glitter a bit. - this could mean they are agates - if I get that right.
But these two stones are very colourful! Light brown, pink, yellowish and brownish stripes - the clearer parts remind me of rose quartz.
And the one white one with the brown and gray stripes. Could it be a picasso jasper?
The black ones.. I looked up jet and read they are light weighted? Well these aren't so I guess it can't be jet. But... I looked at them with my lamp - they glitter like crazy! And seem to have dark brown/redisch and dark gray stripes. But since the reflect the light you really have to use alot to see all this.Z
The yellowish/orange ones from the fist set of pictures all seem to have stars! They sparkle like crazy - so I guess they might be aventurine as well!??
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 11:11 pm
by mustangurl68
RockTumbler.com is a great site with pics for identifying your crystals and stones.
Re: Good website for identifying?
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2015 2:39 pm
by blue_moon
Wasn't to lucky. ..
But thanks for the website! I saved the link