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 Post subject: What is this - can anyone help??
PostPosted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:56 pm 
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[img][img]http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5497/amethystinclusion3copykn4.jpg[/img][/img]


Hi all

I have been pondering for weeks now - on what this inclusion is in my amethyst. I can't quite figure it out and its been bothering me so much i thought i would try and take a picture of it, through my 10 x loup....and it worked! Well, its not a brilliant picture - but hopefully its good enough for you all to see my very annoying inclusion!!!

I can't seem to decide whether its a fingerprint inclusion, a healing fracture or something else....or maybe tiger or zebra stripes???

Can anyone shed some light on it??


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PIxette

Ps - yipee - the picture thing worked :smt026 - hope its the right size and not too big...is it ok barbara?? :D


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Hi Pix,

nice shooting :D From here I would call that a fingerprint. You can compare it with a shot Barbra took for the GP. Look alike ey? Fingerprints are healed fractures btw...

one question though... what happened to the colour of that amethyst? Is that the camera?


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Grawl!

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Hi tim - thanks for that.....i will try and track Barbra 's picture down - do you know where it is? :D

Doos - sorry - what does Grawl mean...i'm having a blond moment :D

pix x x x

ps...the colour of amethyst is a nice purple - the camera didn't like the 10 x loup!


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:D There's a link to the pic up there, BUT to save a click, here it is:
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A textbook "fingerprint" inclusion.


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Thanks barbra.....

So do we all agree my amethyst has a fingerprint inclusion :D

PIx x x x


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Quite OT: Grawl is a monster in a game called Guild Wars .....

Ok, run and hide now? :P


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I thought it was a liquid inclusion commonly seen in amethyst referred to as "soap scum" or "zebra stripes." Guess it's a good thing I waited to chime in. It's hard to get a good look from the iPhone. I bet your pic looks totally different when I get back to the big monitor.

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Gee Pixette, I wish I had one. But actually I collect inclusions in Sapphires, and now even a ruby. When I buy cheap gems it's supprising how I get my moneys worth. And if your 'methyst gets stolen, you can assure the cops it has a fingerprint in it. :)


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Pix, when you see writing in blue it's a clickable link.

You miss out on a lot of fun without that knowledge...


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Hi,

The grawl comment was in reference to one of the names of that type of inclusion "tiger stripes" .. or zebra stripes.

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pix

it sure looks like a textbook "zebrastripe"- some older texts also call it "soapscum" .

gee - i wonder what you'd get after washing down a zebra?

anyway, your fga notes probably list the "zebrastripe" as one of the few 'diagnostic inclusions' - along with "horsetails" - all has a very equine slant, hasn't it?

cheers for now

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agfa wrote:
i wonder what you'd get after washing down a zebra?


A clean, wet zebra. ;)


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wow -

thanks for all your replies.....its so great to know i can always come on here for help and support...

Pix x x x


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