I love dark purple spiny! That’s a really nice piece! It really looks like sugilite!
@here4turquoise Don’t give up! I found this out of the blue in a giant pawn shop, in what used to be a grocery store, in Garland, TX!
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Thank you for boosting my confidence. 
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didn’t make the cut but I herd she been out on a road trip recently 
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Shoot, I forgot to look for her at Grand Canyon 
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@Steve I had to look that word up; that’s perfect and what a great art piece you made of it!!
@Ziacat thank you! 
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Oh Esther, are you still telling @AC that you need to come live with me? 
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I am going through a pink phase, and am loving all the conch pieces out there (photo courtesy of the perrynulltrading.com site for reference)
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You reminded me of another non-turquoise piece I have. Not really pink, more a light salmon color 10 strand melon shell heshi Kewa piece by Robert Lewis Tenorio:
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This is some kind of Jasper, but I can’t find the receipt which says exactly which kind (it’s not a Native-made piece). Anybody have any idea?
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Cool arrowhead, but those rings. 
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Thanks, I wear them as my wedding band/engagement ring set. I’ve never really been a fan of gold and diamonds, and I originally had a really thin gold wedding band which eventually broke, so I switched to these. The wider band is tufa cast and made by Kewa artist Dino Garcia, and the other is Navajo, but I don’t know the artist. Both were purchases from the Eiteljorg gift shop.
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I have always been a sterling and turquoise person too. I do have a yellow gold engagement ring and wedding band that sit in the safe. I would turn them in but I’m afraid I may hurt hubs feelings.
Right now I wear a sterling braided ring for my wedding band.
Thanks for the details on those sterling rings.
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It will be tough to get an exact ID on type of jasper. One hint might be the little black dots.
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@Ziacat
Hey, that’s really cool. I should dig through my arrowhead stash and make one like that!
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Thanks! You should definitely do that, and then show us please! Mine is not a real arrowhead; the artist just cut a stone to look like it. It’s made by the same guy that made my Jasper ring I posted earlier in the thread. I liked his items at first, but then I had several have issues. So I haven’t bought any more.
I never even noticed a little tiny black dots, Fernwood! More googling…
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Had to share my beautiful chevron amethyst cab.
It is huge, penny for scale.
Still do not know if I will just add a bail or do a full wire wrap.
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stone is the star, don’t hide it with wire.
wire bail yes, wrap…nah
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Some rocks from Australia. My niece who lives there sent them to me.
Boulder opal forms in ironstone matrix, in Winton, Queensland.
I like the matri almost as much as the opal.
Mookaite, also known as Australian jasper, is a sedimentary rock found in Western Australia’s Kennedy Ranges. It’s made up of the remains of microscopic aquatic organisms called radiolaria, which were deposited as sediment in shallow seabeds over thousands of years. As the water receded, groundwater carried additional silica and minerals that formed the rock’s colors, which can include red, burgundy, mustard-yellow, cream, white, brown, mauve, purple, and orange. Mookaite can also be banded, meaning it has stripes of different colors.
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@Bmpdvm you definitely have a variety of great stones. I found some mammoth tooth pieces recently at my local NA shop. How does tooth get to be these colors?
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These are super cool!
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