[Jewelry making - Article 00074] - Re: [Orchid] Brittle Carnelian

[Terry Ogden]

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John

>     Nobody else has mentioned this, and I don't know if it applies
>     here or not. We useta could tell when turquoise was blasted (as in
>     dynamite) because it would just break into itty-bitty pieces on
>     the wheel, 

    Ran into some of that type of thing myself. In my case it was
    Sugilite, very good stuff by the pictures, but could not be cut
    without crumbling. Definitely from the shock zone. 

Terry
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