[Jewelry making - Article 00275] - Re: [Orchid] Blue Quartz/Blue Agate

[Dick Friesen]

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    I have a friend who travels to China and returned with several kilos
    (maybe 100?) of a blue material. The dealer in China didn't know, or
    wouldn't tell him, what I was. He had me look it over and cut some of
    it for him. With that amount to look at there was no question, it was
    man made. It looked like someone was trying to make Victoria Stone
    (and failing). The material was harder than normal glass but cut
    like glass. Some of the material was bubble free but bubbles were
    plentiful and some areas were actually frothy. It did not have a
    conchoidal fracture, I did not do a SG test on it. There may be other
    blue material coming out of China but I don't think the material I
    saw was looked at by GIA, they would not have mistaken it for
    obsidian. 

Dick Friesen


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