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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
❓Your Mineral Identification Questions answered here
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 391188" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Hardness 6.5 rules out a lot of suggestions. Are you sure it is scratched by quartz and it does not scratch quartz. Feldspars like orthoclase are really so clear because they have twinning and exsolutions - usually white, cream or even red or green (and only translucent in thin slivers). This is quite transparent. It is almost certainly not quartz. If it were harder than quartz I might have suggested topaz, although the cleavage angles look incorrect.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 391188, member: 4386"] Hardness 6.5 rules out a lot of suggestions. Are you sure it is scratched by quartz and it does not scratch quartz. Feldspars like orthoclase are really so clear because they have twinning and exsolutions - usually white, cream or even red or green (and only translucent in thin slivers). This is quite transparent. It is almost certainly not quartz. If it were harder than quartz I might have suggested topaz, although the cleavage angles look incorrect..... [/QUOTE]
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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
❓Your Mineral Identification Questions answered here
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