⭐ Gemstone & Mineral Show n Tell

Found this one today, think it might be azurite?

I'd say you're right 22shells. Azurite is a deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. If you look closely, you can see some green in there too - a sure sign of copper. Azurite got it's name from 'azure' - a deep bright blue - this certainly is azure coloured!

I'm colourblind so I can't see the green, but I think I can see the bits that probably are green. Looks sort of grey to me, but I can see the blue quite easily.

Afternoon all. Im normally a gold prospector but the wife has been asking about gems . So today we decided to try our luck on something different. I think we found some topaz and maybe a smokey. Not too sure.
What do you think?

Topaz has a couple of quick give-aways, on the lips it's cold and has a slightly soapy feel to it. Right and bottom look like quartz, the other smaller two have a quartz look to them but you never know.

Thanks dihusky. The 2 smaller ones fell heavier than quartz than of similar size. Just going by feel

Ok bought myself a set of digital scales and did a specific gravity test on the 2 smaller stones. The clear one ended up 2.67 and the smoky colour 2.71.
On the chart i found it says it beryl. Does that sound right?
Found near powelltown vic.

By no means any sort of expert but the 2 on the left look like topaz , Gazza

Hows this. Not by me unfortunately.

552 carat yellow diamond found in Yellowknife Canada. largest ever found in North America
:gemstone:

bumdags said:

Ok bought myself a set of digital scales and did a specific gravity test on the 2 smaller stones. The clear one ended up 2.67 and the smoky colour 2.71.
On the chart i found it says it beryl. Does that sound right?
Found near powelltown vic.

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Don't know the area at all, Beryl, has a very different crystal structure to those stones, so highly unlikely, quartz sg is 2.65 so that would be my pick the fact that your SG is a bit higher could be normal variations due to impurities or variations from hard or soft water? They certainly have the look of quartz.

bumdags said:

Afternoon all. Im normally a gold prospector but the wife has been asking about gems . So today we decided to try our luck on something different. I think we found some topaz and maybe a smoky. Not too sure. https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...s/10889/1543732647_webp.net-resizeimage-2.jpg
What do you think?

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That area is mostly known for quartz (clear, smokey, citrine), topaz and tourmaline.
Topaz is out with those SG readings (3.4-3.6) and tourmaline (3.02-3.26).
I'd say you could possibly have the other three there.
The one with the yellow tint could be citrine (2.6-2.7), the big one's a smokey, and the other ones clear quartz (or possibly another citrine. It can be quite pale yellow sometimes). Search citrine in Google images and you'll see it comes in a wide variety of colours.

Have you checked out the thread Goldierocks posted about identifying gems and minerals?
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=24758
It might help you with some more tests to positively identify them.

Cheers,
Megsy

bumdags said:

Ok bought myself a set of digital scales and did a specific gravity test on the 2 smaller stones. The clear one ended up 2.67 and the smoky colour 2.71.
On the chart i found it says it beryl. Does that sound right?
Found near powelltown vic.

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Those SG's are almost certainly quartz. They look like quartz to me too.

Thanks guys for your input much appreciated. Whatever they are it made the wife happy and thats half the battle

Finally got some stones worth posting. Took me quite a few visits, but I finally hit a good patch in the creek at Bb Blue.

Some nice stones there Splinter. :gemstone:

Cheers

Doug

Persistence pays off. Looks like a good honey hole you've found :Y:

22shells said:

Found this one today, think it might be azurite?
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3817/1543655364_pc011056.jpg

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we have plenty of that same ore here around the burra monster mine 110% azurite :Y:

Dave79 said:

Persistence pays off. Looks like a good honey hole you've found :Y:

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Please put some shades on those blinkers

Thanks Rh62, D79 and also everyone else for the likes. Wishing you all good luck in your prospecting ventures. Cheers all and happy hunting ickshovel:

Recent haul over the weekend. Was great to get out in North east Tas. Biggest sapphire was 2.5ct and topaz was over 5ct.