Ideas of what this could be?

Greenbird · **Joined:** Fri May 17, 2024 12:28 pm **Posts:** 2

Hello everyone.

I have found many small stones and I have no idea of what they are, anybody knows what they could be? I know is not possible to have a positive classification just by pictures, but would appreciate a direction to follow.

Thanks a lot and kind regards.

S. Rautiainen · **Posted:** Mon May 27, 2024 1:09 pm

I'll post here what will likely be the response from anyone online:

There are a variety of tests that a trained individual would be able to complete that would help identify the stones in these pictures. The problem is that without seeing the results of those tests then there's pretty much no way of knowing for sure what it would be.

If you don't have a way to reliably get a Refractive Index, Specific Gravity, close up pictures under magnification, etc. then there's not much that we would be able to suggest except bring them to a local gemmologist to have them positively identified.

To me, they don't look like Nephrite, as your other post suggested, but beyond saying that there's little that I could say without some test results to at least start pointing us in the correct direction.

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