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Tecktites mounted in a gold nugget
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<blockquote data-quote="grubstake" data-source="post: 425489" data-attributes="member: 4012"><p>I'm not sure what you're expecting those tektites to look like when they're cut and polished, but have a look at these pics I just found with a Google image search for tektite jewelry:</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yahue3qf" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yahue3qf</a></p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, you need to ignore the pics of jade green or pale-green stones, which are of European or US origin (technically they're Moldavites and Georgiaites). Aussie tektites (Australites) are black underneath their roasted and weathered exterior skin. Actually they're a very dark green like an ancient beer bottle and if you've got a tektite with a sharp, broken edge, you can hold it in front of a bright light to see the greenish colour along the thin edge. But Aussie tektites will only polish up as black. Is that what you have in mind?</p><p></p><p>Tektite types and sources:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite#Occurrence" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite#Occurrence</a></p><p></p><p>My own Lake Yindarlgooda (Kalgoorlie) finds:</p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4012/1531834727_2018-07-17_21.34.53.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubstake, post: 425489, member: 4012"] I'm not sure what you're expecting those tektites to look like when they're cut and polished, but have a look at these pics I just found with a Google image search for tektite jewelry: [url]https://tinyurl.com/yahue3qf[/url] Unfortunately, you need to ignore the pics of jade green or pale-green stones, which are of European or US origin (technically they're Moldavites and Georgiaites). Aussie tektites (Australites) are black underneath their roasted and weathered exterior skin. Actually they're a very dark green like an ancient beer bottle and if you've got a tektite with a sharp, broken edge, you can hold it in front of a bright light to see the greenish colour along the thin edge. But Aussie tektites will only polish up as black. Is that what you have in mind? Tektite types and sources: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite#Occurrence[/url] My own Lake Yindarlgooda (Kalgoorlie) finds: [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4012/1531834727_2018-07-17_21.34.53.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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