FinanceDude
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In the photo, is the necklace the only thing you are wearing?
In the photo, is the necklace the only thing you are wearing?
Bingo on 2Pearl necklace?
Pearl necklace?
TY. These are my favorite treasures. Each one reminds me of a trip.They are beautiful freebird! I have a white pearl necklace that I love and wear on occasion, but I don't have a black pearl necklace. Maybe on my 80th birthday I'll get one.
Several of these are 24" necklaces......in yer dreams am I gonna show ya da goods, boyz.
All you rockhounds can have fun telling me what gemstones and minerals are in these necklaces.
Origins: Alaska, Hawaii, all over continental USA, South America, Europe.
WooooooooooooooooooooooAt the top, snowflake obsidian. Going clockwise,next right, the black fresh water pearls, next is a Turquoise, can't tell if it is sleeping beauty mine, which would be huge bucks, or if it is blue chalk turquoise or stabilized turq. Then tiger eye, with a blackish stone (anything from onyx to tiger iron).
Next up is lapis lazuli with probable malachite.
Next up has a few possibilities. It could be a quartz, but I am thinking aventurine. But tough to call, there are a lot of green stones out there. Could even be aquamarine, I've seen some with that tone.
Next continuing counter clockwise could be a jades, or moonstones, but if totally opaque, mookite. Mookite is from Australia and that wasn't on your lists, and there are no pinks or lavender toucher so I think not. . .Too hard to tell from the picture and too many possibilities for me.
Next has amethyst on each side of malachite (it looks like), but the dark stones are too hard to see.
Next looks primarily like jasper, leopardskin?
Next is fluorite.
Next is the tiger eye.
Next looks like quartz, including rose quartz, but there are other possibilities too.
Jade works for me.Freebird, if the all green chips also came from Alaska, then it might be a jade. There are lots of jades in Alaska.
Tough to do this with pictures. The one called sea coral, it is somewhat transparent, yes? If so, it sure isn't a coral. Sometimes things like "sea coral" and "sea opal" are code words for glass.
The one at the bottom which I said might be moonstones, is that somewhat transparent too? Where did you get it?
In the heat of the afternoon...
A few years ago, we visited a jade shop in Girdwood, about 40 miles east of Anchorage on the Seward Highway which clings to Turnagain Arm. They had a window to the back where they were cutting a HUGE piece of jade into smaller chunks. The piece was maybe a dozen feet long, four feet high and about two feet thick, and a machine was applying a hacksaw to the jade and constantly applying coolant and lubricant to the blade. When I looked at what some of the small pieces sold for and looked at the size of that chunk of jade, it was rather awe-inspiring.Alaska has beaucoup jade, one whole mountain is made of it.