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Lapidary
clean remove schist around a mineral
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<blockquote data-quote="Piep" data-source="post: 100209" data-attributes="member: 3017"><p>Hey Lefty, </p><p></p><p>You may want to be cautious with using ox.ac on this cab. The colour may actually dissappear completely as it is caused by iron oxide in the chalcedony. If it's actually in the crystals, you're good, but if it's between them your cab may become a lot lighter in colour.</p><p></p><p>It's odd, but I still haven't gotten around to actually cutting and polishing any of my found chalcedony, except for a few not so interesting finds from when I just started out collecting. I haven't even shot any pictures of my (now considerable) collection. It just sits there, I look at it, wash it, clean it of crud and compacted mud, wash it again, give it the ox.ac. treatment, wash it again and only occasionally take a piece to the club to saw open, where then for some reason I always end up working on agate or prase that 2 of the old guys have collected in their wild years.</p><p></p><p>I should really make an effort to at least take some pictures of my finds and the whole cleaning process...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Piep, post: 100209, member: 3017"] Hey Lefty, You may want to be cautious with using ox.ac on this cab. The colour may actually dissappear completely as it is caused by iron oxide in the chalcedony. If it's actually in the crystals, you're good, but if it's between them your cab may become a lot lighter in colour. It's odd, but I still haven't gotten around to actually cutting and polishing any of my found chalcedony, except for a few not so interesting finds from when I just started out collecting. I haven't even shot any pictures of my (now considerable) collection. It just sits there, I look at it, wash it, clean it of crud and compacted mud, wash it again, give it the ox.ac. treatment, wash it again and only occasionally take a piece to the club to saw open, where then for some reason I always end up working on agate or prase that 2 of the old guys have collected in their wild years. I should really make an effort to at least take some pictures of my finds and the whole cleaning process... [/QUOTE]
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