[Jewelry making - Article 00385] - Re: [Orchid] Yellow Turquoise

[Zen Sojourner]

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    Just tonight I've been going back and forth with Fire Mountain Gems
    about what some of their beads are actually made of. 

    So far I've been told that yellow jasper is actually yellow jade,
    which according to them is the proper term for "jadeite" and
    "nephrite", and which in any case does not tell me what the
    particular stone in question actually is.  Is it jadeite?  Is it
    nephrite?  Is there actually a yellow variety of either of these? 
    In any case, regardless of what has been "traditionally" called
    "jade", I need the correct modern day terminology before I try to
    sell somebody something, because if it isn't what I tell them it is,
    I'm the one who's in trouble, not Fire Mountain Gems. 
    "Traditionally" any red stone was a "ruby", but can you imagine the
    hoo-hah that would result if I started selling red spinels as
    "ruby"? 

    The other thing I questioned them on was "red malachite".  Now I'm
    not a mineralogic expert by any stretch of the imagination, but
    every reference I can find  - including the one Fire Mountain Gems
    sent me in answer to my question, "what is this stuff you're calling
    "red" malachite?" - CLEARLY and SPECIFICALLY and DEFINITELY states
    that malachite is SOME shade of GREEN, occasionally shading so dark
    as to be black, but nevertheless GREEN and not red. 

    So referring me to a link that describes malachite as a "green
    stone" doesn't help much to identify a red banded stone that's
    identified in their sales literature as "red malachite". 

    Sheesh!  Fat chance I'm ever going to find out from them just what
    "green chalk 'turquoise' " REALLY is. 

Sojourner
who doesn't want to go to jail for fraud, because I sure couldn't afford a 
lawyer to get me out.  Or bail.

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