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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Need help identifying a pink stone found at Nundle.
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<blockquote data-quote="Twapster" data-source="post: 75729" data-attributes="member: 1582"><p>Agree Heatho that the colour has that "slight fluro pink" look about it which you see in uncut ruby so my first bet would be pink sapphire. I'm sure nugget is scrambling to get a UV light to do this test. I'm no expert but have obviously dug into some gem research to better understand what's what, and the more I dig, the more substitute stones come out of the traps. It doesn't have a usual garnet colour, however if you google uncut pink garnets...there's a striking resemblance. The same can be said for pink tourmaline and several other stones. </p><p></p><p>I wish I knew Nundle had more than gold last time we were there. Would have paid a bit more attention to my concentrates as I was stuck on finding gold only it narrowed my vision a little and I didn't pay attention to anything else in the pans. My bad!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Twapster, post: 75729, member: 1582"] Agree Heatho that the colour has that "slight fluro pink" look about it which you see in uncut ruby so my first bet would be pink sapphire. I'm sure nugget is scrambling to get a UV light to do this test. I'm no expert but have obviously dug into some gem research to better understand what's what, and the more I dig, the more substitute stones come out of the traps. It doesn't have a usual garnet colour, however if you google uncut pink garnets...there's a striking resemblance. The same can be said for pink tourmaline and several other stones. I wish I knew Nundle had more than gold last time we were there. Would have paid a bit more attention to my concentrates as I was stuck on finding gold only it narrowed my vision a little and I didn't pay attention to anything else in the pans. My bad! [/QUOTE]
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Need help identifying a pink stone found at Nundle.
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