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Offline bubby

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Re: blood stone?
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2015, 10:54:23 am »
Nice point soy I always cook mine
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Offline vinemaplebows

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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2015, 11:40:46 am »
Doesn't look like any bloodstone I ever worked.....nice job! :)
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Offline Chippintuff

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« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2015, 11:36:21 am »
I agree. It is nice.

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Offline Zuma

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« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2015, 12:52:00 pm »
Quote from: vinemaplebows on June 29, 2015, 11:40:46 am
Doesn't look like any bloodstone I ever worked.....nice job! :)

Yeah I was going to say the same thing but I
 haven't knapped much of it.
Mostly red/blues???
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Offline soy

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« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2015, 01:24:50 pm »
The guy I got it from calls it blood stone...says be got it from India...what would y'all say it might be?
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Offline Zuma

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« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2015, 02:25:13 pm »
Can't say it is or not lol.

www.gemselect.com › GemSelect › Gem Info


Identifying Bloodstone Back to TopBloodstone is easily identified by its characteristic 'classic' appearance. The base color of bloodstone ranges from green to bluish green, and sometimes even bluish gray. The most distinguishing aspect is the presence of red, brownish or yellow 'blood-like' spotted inclusions.

Bloodstone is a variety of quartz and has excellent hardness. There are not many other materials capable of scratching bloodstone, therefore, a simplescratch test can often distinguish bloodstone from imitations. Bloodstone is composed of silicon dioxide and it has a trigonal crystal structure made up of microcrystalline aggregates. It can sometimes be confused with jasper, but because jasper has a much more grainy composition, they can
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Offline flungonin

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« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2015, 11:16:07 pm »
Awesome looking point. Terminal point. This is more colorful than the bloodstone I have which is evergreen in color.
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