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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
Please help identify these stones
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<blockquote data-quote="Lefty" data-source="post: 322195" data-attributes="member: 2976"><p>Hi AgentOmega.</p><p></p><p>It's not usually possible to tell with 100% certainty from a photo. However, from left to right the stones look like red zircons, 2 blue sapphires and a very dark sapphire or something else (perhaps black spinel), a yellow-green sapphire, the cloudy one looks like a piece of quartz and the far right one could be quartz, topaz or feldspar.</p><p></p><p>I suppose it's possible the red stones could be rubies seeing as there are apparently sapphires there (chemically, sapphires and rubies are the same mineral - corundum - it's simply that ruby is the name for red coloured corundum while all other colours are referred to as sapphire) though I'd be thinking zircons would be more likely.</p><p></p><p>Cheers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lefty, post: 322195, member: 2976"] Hi AgentOmega. It's not usually possible to tell with 100% certainty from a photo. However, from left to right the stones look like red zircons, 2 blue sapphires and a very dark sapphire or something else (perhaps black spinel), a yellow-green sapphire, the cloudy one looks like a piece of quartz and the far right one could be quartz, topaz or feldspar. I suppose it's possible the red stones could be rubies seeing as there are apparently sapphires there (chemically, sapphires and rubies are the same mineral - corundum - it's simply that ruby is the name for red coloured corundum while all other colours are referred to as sapphire) though I'd be thinking zircons would be more likely. Cheers. [/QUOTE]
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